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Words in the News Solar Sail

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Bring current events into your classroom! Middle schoolers complete word work activities before reading and discussing an online article. They complete worksheets and an online quiz. They discuss the Solar Sail as radical new idea and create an invention of their own.

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specific information questions, suffix use, vocabulary building, l.7.6, english language arts
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Grade
6th - 8th
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English Language Arts
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Year
2005
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