Scope and Sequence

PART 1 Fundamental Reading Skills is designed to build fundamental skills

step-by-step through exploration of rigorous, academic content.
Fundamental Skill Supporting Skills Integrated Skills Language Skills Vocabulary Strategy Apply Your Skills
LINGUISTICS Reading Actively Previewing a text Annotating Understanding Choosing and writing Read “The Ocracoke Brogue.” Explain the need to preserve the Ocracoke dialect;
Active Reading Scanning pro-forms vocabulary to learn analyze endangered languages in North and South America and create a map or
chart about a different country or region.
BUSINESS ETHICS Identifying Main Ideas and Identifying main ideas Outlining a text Simplifying complex Using word parts to Read “The Role of Investment Banks in the Great Recession.” Explore the ethics
Main Ideas and Supporting Details Identifying supporting details sentences analyze meaning of investment bankers; analyze data about gross domestic product (GDP) in the
Supporting Details United States and create a graph showing GDP in a different country.

EARTH SCIENCE Recognizing Organizational Recognizing definitions Taking notes with Recognizing relative Understanding suffixes Read “Climate Change on Mars and Earth.” Explore how studying climate change
Organizational Structures Structures Identifying comparison-and-contrast organization graphic organizers clauses for definition in scientific terms on Mars can help us learn about Earth; evaluate conditions on Earth and Mars
and present information about atmospheric conditions on a different planet.
MEDIEVAL CULTURE Reading Fluently Increasing reading fluency Summarizing Understanding Recognizing multiple Read “How the Spice Trade Drove Globalization.” Evaluate why Venice was so
Reading Fluency Managing ambiguity a text language associated meanings of words successful in the spice trade; consider the history of the spice trade and create
with chronology a timeline showing key events of the Middle Ages.
MATERIALS ENGINEERING Understanding Research Articles Understanding the introduction Summarizing a Understanding Recognizing and Read “Polymer Applications in Soft Robotics.” Explore the development and uses
Research Articles Understanding the discussion research article modifiers learning multiword units of soft robots; consider experiments related to soft robotics polymer applications
and analyze characteristics of two specific soft robots.

PART 2 Critical Thinking Skills moves from skill building to application of the skills
that require critical thinking.
Critical Thinking Skills Supporting Skills Integrated Skills Language Skills Vocabulary Strategy Apply Your Skills
LINGUISTICS Identifying and Understanding Identifying and understanding statements of fact Quoting material Understanding Using a dictionary to Read “Grammar Goes to Hollywood: Linguists as Science Consultants.”
Facts and Opinions Facts and Opinions Identifying and understanding statements of opinion from a reading structures used strengthen vocabulary Explain how science consultants can contribute to movies; explore selected
for hedging invented languages and complete a chart with this information.
BUSINESS ETHICS Understanding Implication Making predictive inferences Paraphrasing Understanding Guessing word meanings Read “High- Versus Low-Context Cultures.” Explore international business
Implication and Inference and Inference Identifying strong and weak inferences noun clauses from context communication; study countries considered low- and high-context cultures
and create a graph about business communication in a different country.
EARTH SCIENCE Understanding Cause, Effect, Understanding cause-and-effect relationships Using flowcharts Understanding Understanding Read “Critical Thresholds and Climate Tipping Points.” Investigate global
Cause, Effect, and and Correlation Understanding causation and correlation to note causes passive and active collocations warming; analyze data about global carbon dioxide levels and create a graph
Correlation and effects voice showing changes in a different climate variable over time.
MEDIEVAL CULTURE Determining an Author’s Determining an author’s purpose Using descriptive Recognizing Differentiating Read “Appreciating Non-Western Art from the Middle Ages.” Consider historical
Author’s Purpose Purpose and Tone Recognizing an author’s tone imagery figurative language between denotation attitudes toward non-Western art; analyze a map of UNESCO Cultural World
and Tone and connotation Heritage sites in South America and prepare a presentation on one of the sites.
MATERIALS ENGINEERING Understanding Visuals Understanding textual references to visuals Explaining Understanding the Recognizing Greek, Read “How Nanotechnology Fights Cancer.” Explore benefits and potential
Visuals Interpreting information in visuals information use of passive voice Latin, and Germanic downsides of nanomedicines; determine major nanotechnology milestones
in visuals in research writing word roots and create a timeline of the five most important developments.

PART 3 Extended Reading presents authentic content written by university professors.

Academically rigorous application and assessment activities allow for a synthesis of
the skills developed in Parts 1 and 2.
Readings Research / Assignment
LINGUISTICS The Effects of Smiling on Your Accent Choose and research a region within a country and research that region’s accents. Explain how this accent can be distinguished from others as well as
Accent and Affect Fact or Fiction: Evaluating Media Coverage of the Vocal Fry Phenomenon any changes or shifts that have occurred.

BUSINESS ETHICS Sustaining Values: Goldman Sachs After 2008 Choose and research a company that has experienced problems due to fraud or ethics violations. Determine the type of fraud, how using a framework
Sustaining Values Leadership Across Cultures: Frameworks of Understanding of ethical decision making could help in such a situation, and changes that could be made to create a positive ethical environment.

EARTH SCIENCE An Introduction to Paleoclimate Choose and research a region of interest when studying paleoclimate and climate change. Explore the types of research currently being conducted in
Climate and Environmentalism in the 21st Century that region, what type of proxies scientists are examining, and past and current climate change in this region.
Environmentalism
MEDIEVAL CULTURE Songs About Medieval Feasting Choose and research a medieval kingdom or empire. Explore historical accounts, artwork and music, literary works, and so on to find out about
Medieval Feasting Medieval Feast as Artistic Production celebrations in that culture.

MATERIALS ENGINEERING Why Do Polymers Behave Differently Depending on Their Conditions? Choose and research a type of object that commonly uses materials made of polymers. Find specific examples of this type of object and learn more
Polymers: Regenerative Designing Materials for Regenerative Medicine about the polymeric material, such as mechanical properties, conditions under which the material can be used, and its advantages and disadvantages.
Medicine

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