Grade 2 Unit Reader
Unit 2.0 Unit Reader
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Grade 2: Unit Reader Table of Contents “One Giant Hug” by Rosenthal, Betsy R; Chodos−Irvine, Margaret
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“My House's Night Song” by Rosenthal, Betsy R; Chodos−Irvine, Margaret
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“Kids Around the World: Brazil (Kidspost)” by Valle, Sabrina
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“Kids Around the World: Nepal (Kidspost)” by Lancaster, John
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“Kid Around the World: Netherlands (Kidspost)” by Lally, Kathy
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“Kids Around the World: Kenya (Kidspost)” by Wax, Emily
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“Kids Around the World: China (Kidspost)” by Cody, Edward
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“Kids Around the World: Egypt (Kidspost)” by Williams, Daniel
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“Our New Old House”
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“Thirsty Planet” by Geiger, Beth
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“Lyrics for "River Song"” by Banana Slug String Band
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One Giant Hug by Betsy Rosenthal It’s not new in town, hoping to make a first friend. It’s been around. It never picks a fight with me or pokes at me or calls me names. It doesn’t go places without me; I know where to find it every day. It keeps me warmer than a coat, drier than an umbrella, and safer than a good luck charm. It gives me corners to hide in, closets to whisper in, and quiet places where I can think. It’s one giant hug, wrapping itself around me, no matter what. It’s my house. Copyright © 2004 Betsy Rosenthal. From the book My House is Singing. HMH Books for Young Readers. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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My House’s Night Song by Betsy Rosenthal Listen closely Can you hear? Heater whooshing out warm air. Blinds flapping. Floors creaking. Clocks ticking. Faucet leaking. Dishwasher clicking. Pipes pinging. Listen closely. My house is singing. Copyright © 2004 Betsy Rosenthal. From the book My House is Singing. HMH Books for Young Readers. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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Even though she is 13, Bruna Figueira doesn’t mind that she rarely leaves home by herself. Bruna lives with her mom, dad and two younger sisters in an apartment building in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There’s a big playground, a tennis court and two swimming pools that are part of the complex, which is surrounded by many tropical fruit trees where little monkeys come daily to seek lunch. The squirrel-sized monkeys jump over walls and through the court where Bruna and her sisters, Bárbara, 8, and Bianca, 9, have tennis and soccer classes. Just beyond the walls is one of Rio’s favelas, an area where some of the city’s poorest people live in handmade houses that often have no running water. The favelas are dangerous places, often run by gangs. They can be found in poor areas of Rio as well as in much nicer neighborhoods like Bruna’s. From her apartment’s balcony, Bruna can see two sides of her city: the poverty of the favelas and the majesty of the famous statue of Christ the Redeemer. Violence that is common in the favelas is one reason that Bruna rarely goes out alone. She can play inside the apartment complex, but must be accompanied by an adult to go most places in town. “Sometimes I stay alone at home, but just for a short time,” she says while playing with Teca, a Calopsita bird that
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This is the 12th in a series of KidsPost Journeys around the world to show readers how children in other countries and cultures live and play. Today we JOURNEY TO BRAZIL. See where we go next.
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is native to Australia. Teca had her must take a difficult public examination. wings cut; so while she can’t fly, she can They usually study for the exam for at roam in the apartment. least a year. It’s very hard to get into pubBruna goes to one of the best private lic universities because the schools are schools in town, not far from her home. good — and free. Usually, by the time In many schools students choose to they are 16, students have decided what study either in the morning or in the af- they want to study in college so they can ternoon. Bruna goes to school from 1 do well on that exam. Medicine, commup.m. until 5:30 p.m. nication, law, manShe gets a ride from agement and engiher family’s driver, neering are the which is not uncommost popular coursmon, but other famies. lies join together to On weekends, rent a small van to Bruna often goes to transport the chila swimming pool dren. with her family. Oc“I’m not the type casionally they all of student that go to one of the fawants to be the first mous beaches in BY BERG SILVA — AGÊNCIA O GLOBO in class, but I do town. One of her fawell,” she says in Monkeys often are seen in Rio de Janeiro. vorite after-school Portuguese, the offiactivities is street cial language of Brazil, which used to be dancing. She also likes to read novels a colony of Portugal. and listen to music on her iPod on the Bruna also has studied English at balcony of her apartment. In the mornschool and in extra classes for two years. ing, before school, she studies and does “When I watch movies in English with her homework. After school, Bruna ususubtitles in Portuguese I can recognize ally watches TV. some of the words spoken,” she says. Whenever she can, Bruna uses her Bruna doesn’t think much about what computer to watch videos on YouTube she would like to do for a living. “Maybe or chat with friends. But her parents ala lawyer,” she says, “but I don’t know low her to use the computer on weekyet.” She still has some years to go be- ends and for only a limited period during fore she has to decide what she will the week. “If I could,” she says, “I would study in college. be on it always!” — Sabrina Valle To get into a university, 17-year-olds
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What she eats: A typical dinner might be white rice with black beans, lettuce salad and a piece of steak, chicken or fish. French fries, corn and pastel — a fried cheese- or meat-filled pastry — also are part of her menu. For breakfast she has chocolate milk, crackers, butter and bread.
Least favorite subject in school: English, “but it’s better this year.”
Favorite subject in school: history.
Favorite TV shows: “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” “Hannah Montana” and reality shows.
Capital: Brasília.
Favorite activities: street dancing, soccer, swimming and tennis.
Bruna and her bird, Teca.
Television: There are 33 TVs for every 100 people in Brazil, compared with 84 for every 100 people in the United States.
Religion: About 75 percent of the population is Roman Catholic.
School: Kids are supposed to go to school from age 7 to at least 14.
History: Only native Indians inhabited Brazil until 1500, when Europeans arrived. The Portuguese colonized the country and made it part of their empire. In 1889 Brazil became an independent republic.
Currency: real (pronounced heh-ow).
Geography: Brazil has 4,600 miles of coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. The northern half of the country is the heavily wooded Amazon River Basin. The Amazon flows for more than 2,000 miles in Brazil.
Size: 3.2 million square miles, a little smaller than the United States.
Population: 186 million people; a little more than a fourth of them are younger than 15.
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Sports: Soccer is HUGE in Brazil. The country has won the World Cup five times, more than any other country.
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A giant statue of Christ the Redeemer looks over Rio de Janeiro.
Weather: Summer in Rio de Janeiro can be really hot. Temperatures go up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit (though they are measured in Celsius). Winter and summer seasons are the opposite from the United States because Brazil is on the other side of the equator. When it is winter here, it is summer in Brazil. The hottest months are December, January and February; the coldest ones are June, July and August.
Name: Brazil is named after a tree popular in the region when Europeans arrived. Red paint from the tree was used to dye cloth.
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7 K Imagine a fire hot enough to melt a highway! It happened Sunday in Oakland, California, after a gas truck overturned and spilled its fuel.
Heat from the fire caused one freeway overpass to crumple onto another. The truck driver was treated for burns. Officials warn that San Francisco Bay area commuters are in for months of traffic snarls.
Burning Up the Road
BY PAUL SAKUMA — ASSOCIATED PRESS
A tanker truck fire caused part of a California freeway to collapse.
BY NIKKI KAHN — THE WASHINGTON POST
Firefighters check the 134-year-old Eastern Market near the U.S. Capitol.
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K Fires ravaged two historic sites in the nation’s capital yesterday. The first blaze gutted part of the 134-year-old Eastern Market on Capitol Hill. The second fire destroyed documents and art at the Georgetown branch of the public library. There was no link between the two fires, officials said. It took 160 firefighters about two hours to put out the Eastern Market blaze, believed to have started in an outdoor trash bin. Hours later, firefighters raced to the Georgetown library, which contains priceless documents about the old neighborhood. “This is stuff nobody else has, not even the Library of Congress,” archivist Jerry McCoy said.
Historic Market, Library Damaged by Major Fires
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