Academic Encounters READING WRITING 2nd Edition Jessica Williams Series Editor: Bernard Seal ul.>! � CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Scope & Sequence 4 Introduction 8 Student Book Answer Keys 16 Content Quizzes 42 Content Quiz Answer Keys 50 www.com 3 Unit 1: Laws of the Land • 1 Content (D Reading Skills (lJ Writing Skills Reading 1 From Colonies to Thinking about the topic Reading for main ideas Showing contrast Writing definitions ! Chapter 1 United States Reading for details The Reading 2 Personalizing the topic Foundations A Balance of Power Examining graphics of Reading 3 Predicting Government The Bill of Rights Applying what you have read page 4 Previewing art Reading critically Reading boxed texts ! Reading 1 Thinking about the topic Writing aboutnumbe� Freedom of Expression: Reading for main ideas Giving reasons Chapter 2 How Far Does it Go? Applying what you have read Topic sentences Constitutional Reading 2 Examining graphics Issues Separating Religion and Reading for details Today Government Predicting page 27 Reading 3 Scanning Guns in America: The Right to Bear Arms Unit 2: A Diverse Nation • 51 Content (D Reading Skills ('!) Writing Skills ! \ Reading 1 Examining graphics The passive voice America's First People Previewing art Chapter 3 Reading 2 Reading for main ideas The Origins of Slavery Reading for details Diversity Reading 3 Applying what you have read A Country of Immigrants Thinking about the topic page 54 Reading boxed texts Predicting Scanning Reading 1 Increasing reading speed Writing descriptions America's Increasing Examining graphics Writing about growth Chapter 4 Diversity Thinking about the topic Diversity in Reading 2 Reading for main ideas the United The Nation's Fastest- Reading actively States Today growing Minorities Understanding cartoons page 77 Reading 3 The Undocumented: Unauthorized Immigrants 4 I www.com I 0 Vocabulary Skills 0 Academic Success Skills Leaming Outcomes Guessing meaning from Making a vocabulary notebook context Using a vocabulary notebook Cues for finding word meaning Expressing permission Write a paragraph about an important right or freedom with a topic sentence and Word families Taking notes with a chart supporting details Collocations Understanding test questions The Academic Word List 0 Vocabulary Skills 0 Academic Success Skills Leaming Outcomes Words related to the topic Highlighting Synonyms Taking notes with a chart Guessing meaning from context Write two paragraphs about contrasting attitudes toward Suffixes Answering true/false questions diversity Words related to the topic Taking notes in an outline Using a dictionary 0�1.com Unit 3: The Struggle for Equality • 103 Content 4l) Reading Skills '9 Writing Skills Reading 1 Increasing reading speed Writing about time All Men Are Created Equal Thinking about the topic sequences Chapter 5 Reading 2 Predicting The Struggle The Legacy of the Civil War Reading for details Begfos Reading 3 Reading boxed texts page 106 The Civil Rights Reading for main ideas Movement and the Pronoun reference Women's Movement Reading 1 Understanding key term Understanding text structure What Does Equality Reading for main ideas Markers of relationship Chapter 6 Mean Today? Applying what you have read Writing about examples The Struggle Reading 2 Predicting Writing about obligations and Continues Equal Rights and Thinking about the topic recommendations page 127 Protection for All Reading for details Writing about statistics Reading 3 Examining graphics How Equal Are We Now? Reading about statistics Unit 4: American Values • 153 Content a, Reading Skills G Writing Skills Reading 1 Increasing reading speed Noun + infinitive phrases The Roots of American Applying what you have Few and a few Chapter 7 Values read Writing about change American Reading 2 Previewing art Values from the The American West Reading for details Past Reading 3 Examining graphics page 156 The Business of Success Thinking about the topic Predicting Understanding cartoons Reading 1 Thinking about the topic Understanding text The Individual and Society: Reading for main ideas structure Rights and Applying what you have Writing about reasons Chapter 8 Responsibilities read Gerunds American Reading 2 Previewing art Writing definitions Values Today The Open Road and Car Scanning page 180 Culture Reading for details Reading 3 Examining graphics Is the American Dream Still Reading actively 0�1J:!1 o�j e'?y, Possible? www.com 0 Vocabulary Skills O Academic Success Skills Leaming Outcomes Suffixes Answering definition questions on a Words related to the topic test Guessing meaning from Answering short-answer test questions context Understanding key terms Write two paragraphs presenting a point of view on equal rights Synonyms Reviewing for a test and equal protection Prepositions with verbs a�l.'I uL; {!f'JD \ 1TLanguaee com 0 Vocabulary Skills O Academic Success Skills Leaming Outcolllll Understanding key terms Preparing for a test Word families Answering multiple-choice questions Collocations Write a four-paragraph essay on American Prepositions Responding to a quote values Collocations Answering true/false questions Word families Conducting a survey n5�� � irLanguage.com 7 Introduction The Academic Encounte,s Series Academic Encounters is a sustained content-based series for English language learners preparing to study coUege-level subject matter in English. The goal of the series is to expose students to the types of texts and tasks that they will encounter in their academic course work and provide them with the skills to be successful when that encounter occurs. At each level in the series, there are two thematically paired books. One is an academic reading and writing skills book, in which students encounter readings that are based on authentic academic texts.
In this book, students are given the skills to understand texts and respond to them in writing. The reading and writing book is paired with an academic listening and speaking skills book, in which students encounter discussion and lecture material specially prepared by experts in their field. In this book, students learn how to take notes from a lecture, participate in discussions, and prepare short presentations. The books at each level may be used as stand-alone reading and writing books or listening and speaking books.
Or they may be used together to create a complete four-skills course. This is made possible because the content of each book at each level is very closely related. Each unit and chapter, for example, has the same title and deals with similar content, so that teachers can easily focus on different skills, but the same content, as they toggle from one book to the other. Additionally, if the books are taught together, when students are presented with the culminating unit writing or speaking assignment, they will have a rich and varied supply of reading and lecture material to draw on.
A sustained content-based approach The Academic Encounters series adopts a sustained content-based approach, which means that at each level in the series students study subject matter from one or two related academic content areas. There are two major advantages gained by students who study with materials that adopt this approach. • Because all the subject matter in each book is related to a particular academic discipline, concepts and language tend to recur. This has a major facilitating effect.
As students progress through the course, what at first seemed challenging feels more and more accessible. Students thus gain confidence and begin to feel that academic study in English is not as overwhelming a task as they might at first have thought. • The second major advantage in studying in a sustained content-based approach is that students actually gain some in-depth knowledge of a particular subject area. In other content-based series, in which units go from one academic discipline to another, students' knowledge of any one subject area is inevitably superficial.
However, after studying a level of Academic Encounters students may feel that they have sufficiently good grounding in the subject area that they may decide to move on to study the academic subject area in a mainstream class, perhaps fulfilling one of their general education requirements.com The four levels in the series The Academic Encounters series consists of four pairs of books designed for four levels of student proficiency. Each pair of books focuses on one or more related academic subject areas commonly taught in college-level courses. • Academic Encounters 1: The Natural World Level I in the series focuses on earth science and biology. The books are designed for students at the low-intermediate level.
8 Introduction • Academic Encounters 2: American Studies Level 2 in the series focuses on American history, politics, government, and culture. The books are designed for students at the intermediate level. • Academic Encounters 3: Life in Society Level 3 in the series focuses on sociological topics. The books are designed for students at the high-intermediate level.
• Academic Encounters 4: Human Behavior Level 4 in the series focuses on psychology and human communication. The books are designed for students at the low-advanced to advanced level. New in the Second Edition The second edition of the Academic Encounters series retains the major hallmark of the series: the sustained content approach with closely related pairs of books at each level. However, lessons learned over the years in which Academic Encounters has been on the market have been heeded in the publication of this brand new edition.
As a result, the second edition marks many notable improvements that will make the series even more attractive to the teacher who wants to fully prepare his or her students to undertake academic studies in English. New in the series Four units, eight chapters per level. The number of units and chapters in each level has been reduced from five units I ten chapters in the first edition to four units I eight chapters in the second edition. This reduction in source material will enable instructors to more easily cover the material in each book.
W hile the amount of reading and listening material that students have to engage with has been reduced, there has been an increase in the number of tasks that help students access the source material, including a greater number of tasks that focus on the linguistic features of the source material. In both the reading and writing and the listening and speaking books, there are tasks that now draw students' attention to the academic vocabulary that is embedded in the readings and lectures, including a focus on the Academic Word list (AWL). All the AWL words encountered during the readings and lectures are also listed in an appendix at the back of each book. Full color new design.
A number of features have been added to the design, not only to make the series more attractive, but more importantly to make the material easier to navigate. Each task is coded so that teachers and students can see at a glance what skill is being developed. In addition, the end-of-unit writing skill and speaking skill sections are set off in colored pages that make them easy to find. New in the reading and writing books More writing skill development.
In the first edition of Academic Encounters, the reading and writing books focused primarily on reading skills. In the second edition, the two skills are much more evenly weighted, making these books truly reading and writing books. End-of-chapter and unit writing assignments. At the end of each chapter and unit, students are taught about aspects of academic writing and given writing assignments.
Step-by step scaffolding is provided in these sections to ensure that students draw on the content, skills, and language they studied in the unit; and can successfully complete the assignments. New and updated readings. Because many of the readings in the series are drawn from actual discipline-specific academic textbooks, recent editions of those textbooks have been used to update and replace readings. Introduction 9 New in the listening and speaking books More speaking skill development.
In the first edition of Academic Encounters, the listening and speaking books focused primarily on listening skills. In the second edition, the two skills in each of the books are more evenly weighted. End-of-unit assignments.