Northstar Reading and Writing Advanced

Scope and Sequence Unit 1 Mickey's Team Theme: Addiction Reading One: My Time in a Bottle An autobiographical magazine article Reading Two: Mick's Toughest Inning A newspaper op-ed column Vocabulary: Synonyms, context clues, word forms with suffixes Grammar: Past unreal conditionals Unit 2 A Season in Utopia Theme: Utopian Movements Reading One: Early Life at Brook Farm and Concord A book review Reading Two: Making Ends Meet A book review Vocabulary: Synonyms, idioms, word forms Grammar: Noun clauses Unit 3 The Road to Success Theme: Personality Reading One: Gotta Dance A short story Reading Two: Keeping Your Confidence Up An excerpt from a self-help book Vocabulary: Hyphenated adjectives, context clues, idioms Grammar: Identifying and nonidentifying adjective clauses Unit 4 Silent Spring Theme: Trends Reading One: A Fable for Tomorrow A moral tale Reading Two: The Story of Silent Spring An essay Vocabulary: Word forms with prefixes and suffixes, context clues Grammar: Adverb clauses and discourse connectors to express cause and effect Unit 5 What is Lost in Translation Theme: Cross-cultural Insights Reading One: Lost in Translation; The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl Two autobiographical accounts Reading Two: Dear In OneSchool, Many Sagas A newspaper report Vocabulary: Vocabulary classification, synonyms, word forms with suffixes Grammar: Adverb clauses of comparison and contrast Unit 6 The Landscape of Faith Theme: Religion Reading One: Peace Prevails An interCohen, Robert is the author of 'Northstar Reading and Writing Advanced' with ISBN 9780131846739 and ISBN 0131846736.