Students explore Isaac Newton, Cleopatra, Marco Polo, and Confucius. They discuss curiosity, leadership, exploration, and lasting influence while evaluating different accounts of remarkable lives.
Practice: Vocabulary in context, idioms, reading comprehension, role-play, and reasoned discussion.
Vocabulary: irrefutable, startling, eccentric, ponder, insatiable, dissect; gravity, friction, inertia, spectrum, optics.
Language practice: Explain observations and cause-and-effect relationships; use hypothetical language to explore imagined changes to natural laws.
Idioms & expressions: a lightbulb went off, lost in thought, go against the grain, ahead of one’s time, bend the rules, think outside the box.
Reading & speaking: Read about Isaac Newton, motion, gravity, and light; infer vivid reading expressions, discuss scientific curiosity and competition, and reason through thought experiments.