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Unit One – Cooperation and Competition This unit focuses on: * To learn the motives and specific situations that call for cooperation and competition. * To learn how cooperation often leads to positive outcomes. * To learn how different characters react to competition. * To discuss how competition and cooperation affect relationships.
Reading: Comprehension Skills – Making Inferences, Cause and Effect, Main Idea and Supporting Details, Author's Purpose, Author's Point of View, Drawing Conclusions, Sequence Literary Elements – Plot, Characterization, Expository Texts, Recognizing and Distinguishing Fables, Dialogue Vocabulary Skills – Base Word Families, Suffix -ly, Business Vocabulary, Endings -ed and -ing, Compound Words Writing: Writer's Craft – Fact and Opinion, Time and Order Words, Structure of a Business Letter, Avoiding Wordiness, Sentence Combining, Supporting Details, Effective Beginnings Persuasive Writing – Letters and Posters Six Trait Writing – Word Choice and Voice Conventions – Prepositions, Subjects and Predicates, Parenthesis, Periods in Abbreviations, Initials, and Titles, Possessive Pronouns, Subject/Verb Agreement, Adverbs No Excuse Words Six Traits
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