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Scott Foresman ESL for grades 6-8 is a content-based, grade-level program that actually accelerates English language learning. It teaches students the academic language and content they need to achieve success in the mainstream classroom.
UNIT 1 CHANGE
Cycles of Life
Chapter 1 Growing Up
* Turn! Turn! Turn! a song by Pete Seeger
Chapter 2 Life Cycles of Plants
* The Story of Johnny Appleseed by Meridel Le Sueur
UNIT 2 CHALLENGES
Weather
Chapter 3 Changing Weather
* Why the Monsoon Comes Every Year retold by Dorothy Lewis
Robertson
* Lotsa Winds by Sonja Dunn with Lou Pamenter
Chapter 4 Predicting the Weather
* Weather Anonymous
* Raindrop by John Travers Moore
* Good Day Sunshine a song by Paul McCartney
UNIT 3 CONFLICT
The Civil War
Chapter 5 The United States Before the Civil War
* Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen a song
Chapter 6 War Between the North and the South
* Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! A song
* When Johnny Comes Marching Home a song
* Thunder at Gettysburg by Patricia Lee Gauch
* The Gettysburg Address (excerpt) by Abraham Lincoln
UNIT 4 RELATIONSHIPS
The Solar System
Chapter 7 The Sun
* Here Comes the Sun by George Harrison
* Brazilian Moon Tale by Jane Yolen
Chapter 8 The Planets
* The Solar System by Maura Gauck
UNIT 5 JOURNEYS
A Growing Nation
Chapter 9 Settling the West
* Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
* Home on the Range a song
Chapter 10 Industry Changed the Nation
* The Erie Canal a song
* I've Been Working on the Railroad a song
* Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? a song
UNIT 6 JUSTICE
Citizenship and Government
Chapter 11 Citizenship
* Coming to America: Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
* America the Beautiful a song by Katherine Lee Bates
Chapter 12 Government
* Hang Out the Flags by James S. Tippett
Writer's Workshop