Students explore the Amazon's geography, Indigenous peoples, wildlife, plants, and history. They explain connections within the rainforest and discuss its importance through readings and guided conversation.
Practice: Vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, and discussion.
Vocabulary: rainforest, diverse, sustain, vegetation.
Grammar: Add information with relative clauses using who, whom, which, and that.
Word study: The suffixes -ic and -ical, as in poetic, biological, and musical.
Reading & speaking: Read about the Amazon rainforest; discuss its history, biodiversity, and importance.