World languages
Mi Familia: Reading About Family Members
Students match family vocabulary, read an original passage about a made-up family, complete a relationship table, translate sentences and draw a labeled family tree for a fictional family.
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Arts
Music and Emotion: A Listening Journal from Memory
Students recall a piece of music they know well and write a journal analyzing tempo, dynamics, tone color, texture and form, and how those choices shape mood.
Mathematics
Polynomials: Add, Subtract, and Multiply
Students add and subtract polynomials, multiply with the distributive property and an area box, and answer vocabulary questions.
World languages
Quel temps fait-il? Weather and Seasons
Students match French weather phrases, sort the months into seasons, complete weather sentences, and describe their favorite season in French.
English language arts
Root Detectives: Greek and Latin Roots
Students use a chart of eight Greek and Latin roots to decode words, complete sentences with root words and reason about unfamiliar words.
Science
Simple Circuits: Ohm’s Law, Series and Parallel
Students match circuit vocabulary, then use Ohm’s law to solve problems on series and parallel circuits described in words and fill in a V-I-R table.
Arts
Stage Areas and Directions: Read the Map, Place the Actors
Students learn the nine stage areas with a map table, then decode stage directions and place characters on a blank stage grid.
Arts
Storyboard It: Plan a Six-Panel Comic Page
Students learn comic and storyboard vocabulary, then plan and sketch a six-panel page from a short story outline.
English language arts
Test-Style Grammar and Words in Context
Students practice sixteen test-style questions on grammar, punctuation and vocabulary in context, with a self-check against the key.
Social studies
The Silk Road: Han China and Rome Trade Across Asia
Students read about the Silk Road, match key vocabulary, put six trading cities in order from east to west, and track which goods and ideas moved in each direction.
Science
The Water Cycle: Follow the Water
Students read about the stages of the water cycle, complete vocabulary blanks, do simple percent calculations about where Earth’s water is and trace a raindrop’s path.
Social studies
Three Colonial Regions: Land, Work and People
Students read about New England, the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies, fill in a comparison chart, and match key vocabulary.