Short Story
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► Language & Grammar
Express Ideas and Feelings
Use Nouns
► Prepare to Read
Learn Key Vocabulary
Learn a Reading Strategy
Plan Your Reading
► Read and Write
Focus on Genre
Short Story
Apply the Reading Strategy
Plan Your Reading
Critical Thinking
Reading Fluency
Read with Expression
Vocabulary Review
Write About the Guiding Question
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Literary Analysis
Analyze Character’s Motive
Analyze the Main
Problem in Plot
Vocabulary Study
Use Prefixes
Research/Speaking
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Language and Grammar
Express Ideas and Feelings
Writing and Grammar
Write About Time Travel
Quickwrite Time travel has fascinated people for years. But what would a time machine look like? Writers, artists, and inventors have all come up with ideas about what a time machine looks like. What’s yours?
Quickwrite Imagine you invent a machine that lets you travel through time. You can visit any place in the past or in the future. Write a paragraph about where you will go. Why do you want to go to this place?
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The term “time machine” was first seen in H. G. Wells’s book The Time Machine, published in 1895.