Unit 6 Success In-Class Reading The Key to Success 1 A five-year study of 120 of the nation's top artists, athletes and scholars has concluded that drive and determination, not great natural talent, l...
Unit 5 The Power of Words After-Class Reading PASSAGE I All the Good Things He was in the first third-grade class I taught at Saint Mary's School in Morris, Minnesota. All 34 of my students were dear...
Unit 5 The Power of Words In-Class Reading The Power of a Note 1 On my first job as sports editor for the Montpelier (Ohio) Leader Enterprise, I didn't get a lot of fan mail, so I was intrigued by a l...
Unit 4 Science and Technology After-Class Reading PASSAGE I True Love Isaac Asimov [1] My name is Joe. That is what my colleague, Milton Davidson, calls me. He is a programmer and I am a computer. I a...
Unit 4 Science and Technology In-Class Reading Too Fast? 1 People who were born just before World War I remember waving at automobiles as they passed. Seeing a car was like watching a parade-exciting...
Unit 3 Leisure Activities After-Class Reading PASSAGE 1 Fatal Attraction[1] The "Queen" of British murder mystery writing is, without doubt, Agatha Christie. Although the writer herself died over 20 y...
Unit 3 Leisure Activities In-Class Reading Entertaining Humor-What's Funny? Donald M. Huffman 1 The joy of laughing at a funny story is universal, probably as old as language itself. But, what is it t...
Unit 2 Manners After-Class Reading PASSAGE 1 Who Pays the Check? On their first date, Maureen and Dennis ate at one of the most popular Italian restaurants in town. The two, who had met at a fitness c...
Unit 2 Manners In-Class Reading No One Stops to Say "Thank You" Anymore 1 I am sitting in a local restaurant offering takeout homestyle meals, surrounded by exhausted but happy shoppers, families out...
Unit 1 Myths and Legends After-Class Reading PASSAGE 1 Beauty and the Beast There was once a very rich merchant who had six children, three sons and three daughters. He gave his daughters everything t...
