In this lesson, students will learn about the use of argumentative strategies by discovering and identifying them in stories and essays.

In this lesson, students will observe and identify changes in an object's position and describe position in terms of its relationship to another object.

In this lesson students will identify the effective use of imagery and practice analyzing and creating imagery in particular selections.

In this lesson, students learn the elements of biography and autobiography, determine what information is included in each genre, identify the text structures to explain why it is used, and compare/contrast the use of point of view and text structures in biographies and autobiographies.

This lesson uses mathematical and real-world problems to teach students to find the distance between two points in a coordinate system. Students will: learn to find the distance between two points in a coordinate system given the coordinates of both points; learn that the formula used to find the distance between two points is an alternate form of the Pythagorean theorem.

In this lesson, students will compute and solve problems using rational numbers. They will: multiply and divide rational numbers and solve real-world problems by multiplying and dividing rational numbers.

This lesson covers simple square root and cube root equations such as x2 = 10 and x3 = ?8. Students will: solve simple square root equations, listing both solutions where appropriate; solve simple cube root equations; identify equations of both types with whole number solutions, irrational solutions, and no real solutions.

In this lesson, students will explore text structures of nonfiction texts, identify transitions and text structures to draw conclusions and make inferences about the author's purpose, and identify relevant parts of a text to reflect the author's purpose.