Unit 1 - Nature's Fury
Eye of the Storm: collide funnel cloud jagged lightning prairies rotate severe sizzling tornadoes
Volcanoes: cinders crater crust eruption lava magma molten summit upheaval
Earthquake Terror: debris devastation fault impact jolt shuddered susceptible undulating
The Great Quake: jolt heaving chaos ruins fault line tectonic plates inferno despair Richter Scale
Unit 2: Give It All You've Got
amateur audience compete elite overwhelmed pressure required spectators passion
obstacles hurdles debut talent concentrate excitement dismayed stamina honor
stifle
Unit 3: Plays and Poetry
Play Vocabulary: stage directions characters props setting scenes acts narrator cast dialogue
plot drama play theme climax script playwright
Poetry Vocabulary: rhyme rhyme scheme refrain stanza verse simile metaphor personification alliteration cinquain haiku
narrative acrostic
Unit 4: Voices of the Revolution
establish claim
Paul Revere: congress rebellion proclamation liberty tax protest boycott repeal Patriot Loyalist
Tories cargo revolutionary colonies oppose sentries express Parliament
James Forten: abolitionist apprentice conflict privateers produce descent influential dexterity bondage
engaged grapeshot tacking provisions languished tentative traitors hold
Unit 5: One Land, Many Trails
A Boy Called Slow: custom determination extended inherited raid reputation respect travois coup stick
triumph
Black Cowboy, Wild Horses: bluff herd mares milled mustangs ravine remorse skittered stallion quivering
Pioneer Girl: pioneers homestead prairie immigrants fertile discouraged sod claim convinced heifer
memoir calico backfire shortgrass tallgrass herding