UNIT 1 - Cooperation and Competition
| TITLE | AUTHOR | GENRE | VOCABULARY |
| Class President | Johanna Hurwitz | Realistic Fiction | election, represent, campaign, candidates, confidence, nomination, second, bore, parliamentary procedure, move |
| The Marble Champ | Gary Soto | Realistic Fiction | contest, athletic, matches, energy, commotion, chanced, fumed, agate, racquetball, quivering |
| Juggling | Danna Gamache | Realistic Fiction | juggle, spare, serves, spirit, deliberately, salary, persuade, spike, shrill, abruptly, pestering, pressure |
| The Abacus Contest | Priscilla Wu | Realistic Fiction | drills, honored, mischievous, booklets, collided, accuracy, abacus, aroma, incense, ancestor, frantically, slumped, bewildered |
| S.O.R. Losers | Avi | Realistic Fiction | aced, ashamed, attitude, cringing, defeatist, defect, disown, dribble, interview, novelty, prediction, record, terminal, treason |
| Storks | Meindert DeJong | Realistic Fiction | dike, wretchedly, deign, ponder, ramshackle, portal, mystified, inquisitive, pickerel, rivulets, skulking |
Activities completed through the unit:
1. Class Election
2. Learning to use the Abacus
3. Writing a Persuasive Essay using the entire writing process
4. Vocabulary Contests
5. Class Competitions