Common Core Alignment
1: Environment and Cycles

Unit 2: The People of Sparks
Final Project: Wars and Plagues or A New Environment

Unit 3: Short Stories
Lesson 4: Rip Van Winkle
2: Force and Power

Unit 1: Bull Run
Lesson 1: Background on the Civil War

Unit 3: Number the Stars
Lesson 9: A Magazine Article
4: Systems and Interaction

Unit 1: Esperanza Rising
Lesson 8: Christmas

Unit 3: Secret of the Andes
Lesson 9: Belonging