Focus 3

Vocab

• U1 Vocab

Rdg 1 - A Natural Way to Run

• Video:  The Tarahumara  (3:25)

• Video:  The Tarahumara - A Hidden Tribe of Superathletes Born to Run  (10:37)

• Video:  How a Gruelling Ultra-Marathon Put Mexico's Tarahumara Tribe on the Map  (9:31)

Rdg 2 - The Runner's High

• Video:  Explaining a Runner's High

• Quizlet - Unit 1, Reading 1  (Kahaddin)

• Quizlet - Unit 1, Reading 1  (LMommsent)

• Quizlet - Unit 1, Reading 1  (Meredithsk)

• Quizlet - Unit 1, Reading 1  (carolyncypress)

• Quizlet - Unit 1, Reading 2  (carolyncypress)

• Quizlet - Unit 1, Reading 2  (Meredithsk)

• Quizlet - Unit 1, Reading 2  (LisaLevine3)

• Quizlet - Unit 1, Reading 2  (caro3600)

• Quizlet - Unit 1  (mjh808)

Vocab

• U2 Vocab

Rdg 1 - Spring Forward, Fall Back

Rdg 2 - In Search of an Accurate Calendar

• Video:  What is a Leap Year?

• Leap Year

• Mayan Astronomy

• Quizlet - Unit 2, Reading 1  (LMommsen)

• Quizlet - Unit 2, Reading 2  (LMommsen)

• Quizlet - Unit 2, Reading 2  (tom_riedmiller)

• Quizlet - Unit 2  (TGoodfell)

• Quizlet - Unit 2  (mjh808)

• Quizlet - Unit 2  (caro3600)

• Quizlet - Unit 2  (bruce098)

• Quizlet - Unit 2  (jodyleon)

Vocab

• U3 Vocab

Rdg 1 - Drinking Water

• Bull Run Watershed

• The Water Crisis

• Facts about Water: Statistics of the Water Crisis  (The Water Project)

• What's the Big Idea about Water

Rdg 2 - The Bottled Water Debate

• A Bottled-Water Drama in Fiji  (npr.org)

• Quizlet - Unit 3, Reading 1  (Meredithsk)

• Quizlet - Unit 3, Reading 1  (tom_riedmiller)

• Quizlet - Unit 3, Reading 2  (Meredithsk)

• Quizlet - Unit 3  (mjh808)

• Quizlet - Unit 3  (TGoodfell)

• Quizlet - Unit 3  (caro3600)

• Quizlet - Unit 3  (bruce098)

• Quizlet - Unit 3  (quizlette5620602)

Rdg 1 - Humans and Cattle: A Shared History

• The Cow Wall

Rdg 2 - Taming the Wild

• Quizlet - Unit 5, Reading 1  (kang_sw)

• Quizlet - Unit 5, Reading 1   (hui_xu6)

• Quizlet - Unit 5, Reading 1   (carolyncypress)

• Quizlet - Unit 5, Reading 2  (hui_xu6)

• Quizlet - Unit 5, Reading 2  (EricScott_NAU)

• Quizlet - Unit 5, Reading 2  (nhutchison)

• Quizlet - Unit 5  (lshallsted)

• Quizlet - Unit 5  (jodyleon)

Rdg 1 - Safer Homes in Earthquake Zones

Rdg 2 - Urban Architecture

• This Indian Company Can Build an Apartment in Two Weeks  (CNN)

Vocab

• U7 Vocab

Rdg 1 - Sibling Personalities

• What You Need to Know about Birth Order

• The Effect of Birth Order on Children  (Psychology Today)

• Can We Accurately Guess Your Birth Order?  (Buzzfeed)

• A Very Deep Connection - What It Means to be a Sibling  (The Guardian)

Rdg 2 - Epigenetics

• Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought

• Epigenetics: You Are What You Eat  (Jennifer DeChaine at TedxYakimaSalon)

• • Quizlet - Unit 7, Reading 1  (Meredithsk)

  • Quizlet - Unit 7, Reading 1  (Carolyncypress)

  • Quizlet - Unit 7, Reading 2  (Meredithsk)

  • Quizlet - Unit 7, Reading 2  (Carolyncypress)

  • Quizlet - Unit 7, Reading 2  (Bambaz1)

  • Quizlet - Unit 7, Reading 2  (daysantamaria)

• • Quizlet - Unit 7  (jodyleon)

  • Quizlet - Unit 7  (bruce098)

Rdg 1 - The Golden Age of Islamic Invention

Rdg 2 - Origami: The Practical Applications of a Familiar Art

• This House Takes 6 Hours to Build and Costs Only $33k  (YouTube)