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Focus ON READING My Brother Sam Is Dead Lisa French Three Watson Irvine, CA 92618-2767 Web site: www.sdlback.com Copyright © 2006 by Saddleback Educational Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher, with the exception below. Pages labeled with the statement Saddleback Educational Publishing © 2006 are intended for reproduction. Saddleback Educational Publishing grants to individual purchasers of this book the right to make sufficient copies of reproducible pages for use by all students of a single teacher. This permission is limited to a single teacher and does not apply to entire schools or school systems. ISBN-1-59905-116-8 Printed in the United States of America 10 09 08 07 06 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Introduction/Classroom Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv Focus on the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Focus Your Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I. Chapters I–II Focus Your Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–3 IV. Chapters VII–IX Focus Your Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20–21 Build Your Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Build Your Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Check Your Understanding: Multiple Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Check Your Understanding: Multiple Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Check Your Understanding: Short Answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Check Your Understanding: Short Answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Deepen Your Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Deepen Your Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 II. Chapters III–IV Focus Your Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–9 V. Chapters X–XI Focus Your Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26–27 Build Your Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Build Your Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Check Your Understanding: Multiple Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Check Your Understanding: Multiple Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Check Your Understanding: Short Answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Check Your Understanding: Short Answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Deepen Your Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Deepen Your Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 III. Chapters V–VI Focus Your Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–15 VI. Chapter XII–Epilogue Focus Your Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32–33 Build Your Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Build Your Vocabulary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Check Your Understanding: Multiple Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17