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PAIREDREADPoetryScienceFictionScienceFictionby Raymond Huber LivsVVacationacationillustrated by Caroline Huillustrated by Caroline HuProgram:CR 14Component:LRTemplatePDFVendor:Learning MediaGrade:6Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaGrade:6CV_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_E_118746.indd 3CV_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_E_118746.indd 39/03/12 8:45 AM9/03/12 8:45 AMSTRATEGIES&SKILLSWord Count:2,013ComprehensionStrategy:VisualizeSkill:ThemeVocabulary StrategyFigurative LanguageVocabularyhorizon,incentive,recreation,unfetteredELL Vocabularyrelentless,wistfullyACopyright The McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc.All rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means,or stored in a database or retrieval system,without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc.,including,but not limited to,network storage or transmission,or broadcast for distance learning.Send all inquiries to:McGraw-Hill EducationTwo Penn PlazaNew York,New York 10121ISBN:978-0-02-118746-1MHID:0-02-118746-0Printed in the United States.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 DOC 15 14 13 12 11 10Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaGrade:6IFCIBC_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_E_118746.indd 2IFCIBC_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_E_118746.indd 29/03/12 8:53 AM9/03/12 8:53 AMPAIREDREADChapter 1Torus.2Chapter 2Home Life.5Chapter 3Red Waves .8Chapter 4New Horizons .13Respond to Reading .16Liv s Gift.17Focus on Literary Elements .20Essential Question Why is taking a break important?by Raymond Huber LivsVVacationacationillustrated by Caroline Huillustrated by Caroline HuProgram:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 1001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 19/03/12 9:01 AM9/03/12 9:01 AMChapter 1p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p ea a ap p p p p p p p p pa aLiv looked out the space shuttle window.She was disappointed.Everything was covered in clouds.Liv could not see the famous island shaped like a donut or the red ocean of the planet Torus.Liv sat back in her chair and activated her guide e-book instead.“Torus is located at the edge of the galaxy.Amazing oceans surround the single ring-shaped island.The tropical temperature.”The words“amazing oceans”seemed to leap out from the screen.Liv s smile stretched from ear to ear.She imagined surfing over Torus s endless ocean.Liv also looked forward to meeting Kevin Sanchez and his family.The Sanchez family was hosting Liv on the student exchange program.Maybe Kevin liked to surf,too.Liv was impatient to arrive in Nori City.She had been traveling on the space shuttle for months.Now Liv wanted to feel fresh air on her face again.2Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 2001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 29/03/12 9:02 AM9/03/12 9:02 AMA taxi met Liv at the landing pad.The robot taxi driver explained that the taxi was taking Liv to school.Liv was confused.It was Saturday.Was the robot malfunctioning?The taxi stopped in front of Nori Junior High.Kevin Sanchez was waiting for Liv.Kevin seemed friendly and excited to meet Liv.Kevin led Liv through the school,and he explained that Liv was the first alien student at the school.“Alien?”Liv repeated.“I ll try not to spit acid.”Kevin looked upset.He said,“I did not mean to offend you.People on Torus call outsiders aliens because Torus does not have many visitors.”Liv assured Kevin that she was just joking with him.Kevin took Liv into a classroom.Students sat in individual learning spaces.The room was completely silent.The students were all working hard.KevinLivstudents3Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 3001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 39/03/12 9:02 AM9/03/12 9:02 AMLiv slid into her individual learning space.A face immediately appeared in front of Liv.The face spoke at lightning speed.The face explained that it would be Liv s teacher for the year and that its name was Yezo.Then Yezo gave Liv her first assignment.A disc appeared from a slot in the side of the screen.Liv had to read ten chapters by tomorrow!Yezo s face disappeared.Liv climbed out of the learning space.She said to Kevin,“That is an incredible machine.However,there is a mistake.I cannot read ten chapters in one night.Also,there is no school tomorrow because tomorrow is Sunday.”Kevin looked confused.He said,“I am not sure what you mean.School every day keeps us learning every day.”Kevin sat down in his own learning space and began studying.It was Liv s turn to be confused.She wondered what kind of strange planet had school every day.Maybe this explained why Kevin was so serious.STOP AND CHECK Where has Liv gone for a vacation?4Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 4001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 49/03/12 9:02 AM9/03/12 9:02 AM Liv and Kevin rode home on the bus.Liv saw the city of Nori for the first time.Liv asked Kevin about the dome-shaped buildings that she saw on every street.Kevin was studying hard.He looked up from his e-book and explained that the buildings were where the seaweed called aka was prepared.Kevin explained that the red seaweed was the basic food on Torus.Then Kevin returned to his study.Liv felt troubled by the gray city and Kevin s serious attitude.Chapter 2p p p p p p pdome-shaped buildings5Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 5001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 59/03/12 9:02 AM9/03/12 9:02 AMLiv and Kevin arrived at the Sanchez home.The home was so tidy that Liv was scared to touch anything.Liv met Kevin s parents at dinner.The conversation turned to work.Mr.Sanchez was the mayor of Nori,and it was a difficult job.Liv looked out the window.Liv thought wistfully of her surfboard on the porch.Liv said to Mr.Sanchez,“At least you can relax on the beach after work.”Mr.Sanchez frowned.He did not understand what the word relax meant.Liv was surprised,and she tried to explain.“Relax means to stop work and then rest or have fun.”Mrs.Sanchez said that the people of Torus did not stop working.Mrs.Sanchez explained that Torus was a great distance from everywhere else.The people of Torus had to produce all their own food and supplies in order to survive.Survival was a powerful incentive to work.In Other Words the topic of discussion changed.En espaol,the conversation turned to quiere decir el tema de la conversacin cambi.6Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 6001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 69/03/12 9:02 AM9/03/12 9:02 AM Kevin showed Liv an image of his great-grandfather on a photo screen.Kevin was proud.He explained that his great-grandfather,Pop Sanchez,was the first settler on Torus.Pop Sanchez had invented a centrifuge to spin the vitamins and nutrients out of aka.Kevin explained that a centrifuge is a machine that spins really fast.Pop Sanchez was smiling in the picture.He stood in a sunny fairground.Liv had not seen any places where fairs were held on Torus.Kevin went to do his homework.Mr.and Mrs.Sanchez began to clean the house.Liv asked if she could take a walk on the beach.Liv walked along the beach.The two moons of Torus shone in the sky.Liv thought of her own family on Sym.They enjoyed walking along the beach in the moonlight.Now Liv was stuck on this strange planet until the space shuttle returned.She wondered if she had made a mistake coming to Torus.beachmoonsSTOP AND CHECKWhat does Liv learn about Torus?7Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 7001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 79/03/12 9:02 AM9/03/12 9:02 AMChapter 3Liv worked hard at school.Yezo taught Liv some interesting things.However,it was hard to work day after day.When Liv arrived home from school each day,she did three hours of homework.Then Liv ate dinner,helped Kevin with his chores,and fell into bed.Liv was too tired to do anything else.Finally one night,Liv could not stand it any longer.She was climbing the walls with boredom.Liv dressed in her wetsuit,and then she put on a T-shirt and a pair of shorts.Liv barged into Kevin s room.It was time to go to the beach!“Why do we need to go to the beach?”Kevin asked.“We should go to have fun and take a break!”Liv said.Liv pulled Kevin out the door.She picked up her surfboard on the porch.Mrs.Sanchez was just returning home.Kevin explained that he was going to the beach with Liv.Mrs.Sanchez was too surprised to say no.Mrs.Sanchez followed Liv and Kevin to the beach.Liv took off her shorts and T-shirt.Then Liv leaped into the waves with her surfboard.The warm,red water lifted her surfboard.The sun began to set on the horizon.Liv happily rode the top of the waves.Liv felt completelyunfettered.8Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 8001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 89/03/12 9:02 AM9/03/12 9:02 AMwavesurfboardwetsuitMrs.SanchezProgram:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:609001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 9001_009_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 99/03/12 9:02 AM9/03/12 9:02 AM A long while later,Liv stopped surfing.She sat down beside Kevin and Mrs.Sanchez in the sand.“That looked incredible,”Kevin said in a voice filled with amazement.“It looked really.”Kevin searched for the right word.“Fun?”Liv asked.“It was fun.”Kevin smiled.Mrs.Sanchez asked if Liv had been taught surfing in school.Liv explained that surfing was a hobby.Liv surfed for recreation.She surfed because she loved to have fun.Mrs.Sanchez was clearly surprised.She asked Liv if her parents approved of such silly pastimes.Liv explained that her family did all kinds of fun things together.Then it was Liv s turn to be surprised when Kevin asked his mother if it would be okay for Liv to teach him to surf.Mrs.Sanchez thought for a long time.Finally Kevin s mom agreed;however,she said Kevin must not let his schoolwork suffer.On this page,when is used as an adverb that combines two sentences.Find another adverb on this page that is used to combine two sentences.LanguageDetective10Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60010_016_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 10010_016_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 109/03/12 9:06 AM9/03/12 9:06 AM Every day now,Liv and Kevin ran to the beach after school to surf before they started their homework.Liv applauded the first time Kevin stood up on the surfboard.Then Kevin toppled into a wave.Kevin and Liv laughed.Liv enjoyed the time at the beach.However,school was becoming relentless.Liv could not concentrate on her lessons.Yezo often reprimanded Liv.One humid afternoon,everything came to a head in science class.Liv was trying to construct a 3-D model of a molecule.The image was of connected atoms floating in midair.The image reminded Liv of home.Liv recalled going to an amusement park.She remembered riding a spectacular machine called the Octopus.The machine had long,colorfularms.In Other Words reached a stage where things are too difficult to deal with.En espaol,came to a head quiere decir lleg a un momento crtico.model11Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60010_016_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 11010_016_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 119/03/12 9:06 AM9/03/12 9:06 AMSuddenly Yezo called to Liv,“Liv,your model is spinning!”Liv apologized and admitted that she had been thinking about a vacation on Sym.“You are not on Sym now,”Yezo warned Liv.“You must keep your mind on your work,or you will not learn.”After dinner Liv went to her room.Kevin had too much homework to go surfing.Liv forced herself to read the difficult homework assignment.The assignment was practically impossible.Liv needed to clear her head.She could think of only one way to do that on Torus.Liv told Mr.and Mrs.Sanchez where she was going and ran to the beach.Liv knew that there would be consequences tomorrow at school because she would not be prepared.However,the sound of the waves helped clear Liv s mind.STOP AND CHECKHow does Liv feel about life on Torus?12Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60010_016_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 12010_016_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 129/03/12 9:06 AM9/03/12 9:06 AMIn class the next morning,Yezo asked Liv to describe electron behavior.Liv described how sometimes electrons are like a wave.Liv compared electrons to water in the ocean.Liv was surprised when Yezo complimented her.Yezo said,“That is a good way to describe electrons,Liv.Well done.”“It s because I took a break,”Liv explained.“I let my mind relax.Suddenly I could understand things better.”That night at dinner,Kevin was joyfully talking with his father.Liv realized that Kevin had changed a lot since they had started surfing.Kevin seemed to be happier.For some reason,this made Liv think about the picture of Pop Sanchez.How could Torus have changed so drastically?Finally Liv asked to see the image of Pop Sanchez again.Chapter 4p p p p p p p p p p p13Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60010_016_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 13010_016_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 139/03/12 9:06 AM9/03/12 9:06 AMLiv studied the image carefully.She asked about the merry-go-round in the picture of Kevin s great-grandfather.Mr.Sanchez said that the image was not of Torus.The image was of a place called Luna Park on planet Earth.Liv drew a plan of the merry-go-round on her e-pad.Mrs.Sanchez s eyes widened when she looked at Liv s drawing.Mrs.Sanchez explained that Liv had just drawn a plan of the aka centrifuge.“Of course!”Liv exclaimed.“Pop Sanchez thought of the idea for the centrifuge while he was on vacation!”Mr.Sanchez admitted that it might not be so bad to take breaks and vacations after all.Liv and Kevin smiled at each other.On this page,while is used as an adverb that combines two sentences.Find another adverb on this page that is used to combine two sentences.LanguageDetectivemerry-go-roundPop Sanchez14Program:CR 14Component:LRG6 U6 W5E PDFVendor:Learning MediaLevel:60010_016_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 14010_016_CR14_LR_G6_U6W5L60_ELL_118746.indd 149/03/12 9:06 AM9/03/12 9:06 AMLiv returned to her home on Sym.She received an e-mail when she was at the beach.She put her surfboard in the sand and read the e-mail.This is what the e-mail said:Liv,Nori has gone crazy.This is all because of you!Things have changed so much since you left.Mom and Dad come to watch me surf.They love it!Dad says life on Torus had become unbalanced.Now the city council has introduced a law.Everyone gets one day off a week.That means no school or work.Wish you were here!Your friend,KevinLiv smiled.She grabbed her surfboard and ran