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Reading in Action reinforces the discrete grammar skills taught in Voyages in English and then provides students with opportunities to apply what has been learned across 15 distinct writing genres.PROGRAM OVERVIEWGRADE 7TITLE LESSON CONCEPT/GENREExtreme Flight Rocket Science NounsMissions, Ranches, and Forts AdjectivesConflict and Controversy PronounsDiamonds! VerbsUnexpected Friends VerbalsEarth Beneath Your Feet AdverbsFrom Skyscrapers to Superdomes PrepositionsThe Firebrands SentencesKill or Cure Conjunctions and InterjectionsThe Magnificent Medici Punctuation and CapitalizationBest Foot Forward Personal NarrativesScientists on the Cutting Edge Business LettersTaking a Bath in Rome How-to ArticlesBoars, Barley, and Broth DescriptionsPassage to Another World Creative Writing: Fantasy FictionWarriors of Sparta and Athens Expository WritingDeserted Stone Cities Research ReportsEnergy Revolutions Argumentative WritingA Long Walk Literary AnalysisConfliCt and ControversyCreating the ConstitutionDaniel Benjamincontroversy \\k%u00e4n%u00b4 tr%u0259 v%u0259r s%u0113\\ n. 1. a discussion in which people express opposing views; 2. a disagreement over ideas; 3. a quarrelReading and Writing Informational TextMain Text Structures%u2022Problem/Solution%u2022Compare/ContrastText Features%u2022Primary Sources%u2022Map%u2022Sidebar%u2022Fact BoxesComprehension Focus%u2022QuestioningWriting Focus%u2022Compare/Contrast Paragraph822334GenreSubject/StrandKey Words VocabularyNarrative, NonfictionSoc. Studies/US Hist. & CivicsConstitutional Convention, delegatesdebt, talent, deserve, threaten, depressedLevelGRL TLexile 850L822334_C_Conflict.indd 1 2/22/12 12:29 PM