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Folk Tale: “The People Could Fly” (Virginia Hamilton) Short Story: “Heartbeat” (David Yoo) (Close Reader) Novel/Drama/ Graphic Story: “A Christmas Carol” (Charles Dickens/ Israel Horovitz/ Marvel Comics) Reader) Poem: “Annabel Lee” (Edgar Allan Poe) (Gale) 2 Article: “The of Facts” (Samuel Arbesman) (Assessment Booklet) Article: “The Food Pyramid and Why It Changed” (William Neuman) (Assessment Booklet) Essay: “The Explosion in What We Know About Life Forms” (Alan Cochev) (Assessment Booklet) 3- The Stuff of Consumer Culture Writing to Inform and Explain Writing to Argue Informational Reading Focus RI.3 W.1 Excerpt: “Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century” (Jeanne E. Arnold) Poem: “Dump” (X.J. Kennedy) Poem: “How Things Work” (Gary Soto) Essay: “Labels and Illusions” (Lourdes Barranco) (Close Reader) Excerpt from: “Kids' ads under fire: industry gets proactive as activists, regulators scrutinize marketing, menus” a
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