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Table of Contents

Unit Texts

Grade 7, Unit 5 Student Reader
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Writing Tasks

S-5: Comprehension Task Retelling “My Fast-Food Meal”
S-6: Pollan’s Arguments A Discussion Task
S-7: Pollan’s Methods: A Text-Based Task
S-9: The Investigative Report Writing Project: An Overview
S-9: Part 1: Selecting and Gathering
S-11: Part 2: On the Surface Re-Presentations
S-13: Part 3: Below the Surface Readings
S-17: Part 4: Reading the Ads as a Set
S-19: Part 5: Making It Public

Charts for Discussion

S-1: Tracking “The Speckled Band”
S-2: When We Read Like a Detective, We…
S-8: Pollan’s Methods

Forms and Graphic Organizers

S-1: Tracking “The Speckled Band”
S-6: Criteria for a Good Discussion
S-8: Pollan’s Methods Questions and Examples
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