Unit 1 Personality
Reading Strategy
Reading 1 Your Music and Your Personality
Reading 2 Thank You, Megan
Unit 2 Happiness
Reading Strategy Skimming
Reading 1 Laughter Reall is the Best Medicine
Reading 2 A Businessman's View
Unit 3 Friendship
Reading Strategy Scanning
Reading 1 Man's Best Friend?
Reading 2 My Best Friend Dan
Unit 4 Difficult Decisions
Reading Strategy Making predictions
Reading 1 Dear Hannah's Advice Column
Reading 2 Choosing the Right Career
Unit 5 Life-Changing Moments
Reading Strategy Making inferences
Reading 1 Reaching for the Stars
Reading 2 Take a Life-changing Vacation
Unit 6 Unexpected Events
Reading Strategy Interpreting
Reading 1 The Lucky Silk Scarf
Reading 2 A Surprise Gold Medal
Unit 7 False Assumptions
Reading Strategy Making judgments
Reading 1 Barbarians or Brave Defenders?
Reading 2 In Affection and Esteem
Unit 8 Kindness
Reading Strategy Making associations
Reading 1 Kindness Makes You Happy
Reading 2 Women Who Make a Difference
Unit 9 Bravery
Reading Strategy Deducing the meaning of words from context
Reading 1 Riding the Waves
Reading 2 A True Hero
Unit 10 Man and Nature
Reading Strategy Visualizing
Reading 1 The Fighting Forests
Reading 2 A Special Love
Unit 11 How Technology Makes a Difference
Reading Strategy Summarizing
Reading 1 From Distraction to Learning Tool
Reading 2 Sports Go Techno
Unit 12 Adventure
Reading Strategy Planning your reading
Reading 1 My Australian Adventure
Reading 2 Chinas Ocean Adventurer
Unit 13 Travel
Reading Strategy Predicting, inferring, interpreting, and deducing meaning (review)
Reading 1 Architectural Wonders in China
Reading 2 Travel Advice from the 1600s
Unit 14 Ambition
Reading Strategy Visualizing, associating, iudging, and summarizing (review)
Reading 1 The Pursuit ofHappyness Is Pure Pleasure
Reading 2 The One-Inch Boy
Unit 15 The Literary Arts
Reading Strategy Understanding the writer's style
Reading 1 The Flower
Reading 2 The Merchant of Venice (Adaptation)
Unit 16 HowWeThink
Reading Strategy Understanding purpose and tone
Reading 1 Separate Boys and Girls at School
Reading 2 The Tale of Two Pebbles
Unit 17 Our Emotions
Reading Strategy Separating fact from opi nion
Reading 1 Emotional Intelligence
Reading 2 The Family Cookbook
Unit 18 Misunderstandings
Reading Strategy Understanding references
Reading 1 The Trouble with Email
Reading 2 An Unwitting Bank Robber
Unit 19 Tough Challenges
Reading Strategy Highlighting and annotating
Reading 1 Xuanzang's Long, ourney
Reading 2 The Judo Match
Unit 20 Then and Now
Reading Strategy Recognizing main ideas
Reading 1 3D Printing Will Improve Our Food Choices
Reading 2 Modern Threats to Philippine Rice Terraces
Unit 21 Understanding Fear
Reading Strategy Recognizing supporting ideas
Reading 1 Phobia: Inside the World of Fear
Reading 2 Fear (Adaptation)
Unit 22 Making Mistakes
Reading Strategy Recognizing text organization-time order and process
Reading 1 What Are You Waiting for?
Reading 2 This Is Good!
Unit 23 Getting Help
Reading Strategy Recognizing text organization-compare and contrast
Reading 1 The Story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Reading 2 When in Rome
Unit 24 Learning from Life
Reading Strategy Recognizing text organization-cause and effect
Reading 1 Life Lessons from Bob Dylan
Reading 2 Dangerous Games
Unit 25 Who's Intelligent?
Reading Strategy Highlighting and annotating (review)
Reading 1 Comparing Chimps to People
Reading 2 Who Are the Most Intelligent?
Unit 26 Isn't It Romantic?
Reading Strategy Understanding purpose and tone plus separating fact from opinion (review)
Reading 1 The Hidden Scar: The Story of the Willow Leaf Eyebrow
Reading 2 The Science of Attraction
Unit 27 Two Sides to the Story
Reading Strategy Recognizing bias
Reading 1 Is It Wrong to Save an Orphan?
Reading 2 The Business of Adoption
Unit 28 Conservation
Reading Strategy Text organization-spatial organization plus problem and solution
Reading 1 Giant Pandas at the Adelaide Zoo
Reading 2 Save the World's Iconic Animals
Unit 29 Lies
Reading Strategy Text organization-based on themes
Reading 1 The Signs ofLying
Reading 2 Your Child Probably Lies, Too
Unit 30 SchooI Debates
Reading Strategy Text organ ization-persuasion
Reading 1 The Wonderful Benefits of Homework
Reading 2 Have You Been Tempted to Plagiarize?
Unit 31 Entrepreneurship
Reading Strategy Reading fluency
Reading 1 The Making of a Business Leader
Reading 2 Andrew Carnegie: Visionary Businessman
Unit 32 Advertising
Reading Strategy Syllthesizing information
Reading 1 Who Do You Want to Be? Imitation in Advertising
Reading 2 Stereotyping in TV Commercials
Unit 33 The Art of Color
Reading Strategy Summarizing (review)
Reading 1 Color Symbolism
Reading 2 What Do Colors Mean in Movies?
Unit 34 Food Extremes
Reading Strategy Deducing meaning (review)
Reading 1 Eating Without Thinking
Reading 2 Climate Is Changing.Food and Agriculture Must Too
Unit 35 More than a Game
Reading Strategy Understanding references (review)
Reading 1 Soccer Is Not Always a Rags-to-Riches Story
Reading 2 How Soccer Can Make a Difference
Unit 36 Economic Matters
Reading Strategy Exam practice (Charts/Diagrams)
Reading 1 How Tech Breakthroughs Can Shatter the Bonds of Poverty
Reading 2 Fighting Poverty with Microfinance