Common Core Alignment
1: Environment and Cycles

Unit 3: Short Stories
Lesson 7: Your Choice
4: Systems and Interaction

Unit 1: Esperanza Rising
Final Project: A Dramatization

Unit 2: The Tree That Time Built
Lesson 5: Amphibians and Reptiles
Lesson 7: Birds
Lesson 9: Preservation
2: Semester 2

Unit 5: British Poetry
Lesson 3: Graphic Elements
Lesson 5: Allusions
Final Project: Autobiography of a Poet
1: Semester 1

Unit 1: Abigail Adams
Lesson 2: John and Abigail Adams
Lesson 6: Separation

Unit 3: Einstein Adds a New Dimension
Lesson 1: Expository Writing