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Assignment On Growing Up In America
The title of the unit is “Growing Up in America.” The unit focuses on growing up and decision-making.
Learning Outcomes
• identify and use Simple Present forms of Be/Have and Adverbs of frequency
• Use and apply knowledge of new vocabulary to new contexts
• Demonstrate understanding of topic sentences and controlling ideas by writing a short paragraph about growing up with a solid topic sentence and controlling idea
• Compare and contrast their experiences growing up with the experiences of American children
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Students will use their own background knowledge to understand and discuss growing up in America and learn new vocabulary associated with growing up. Therefore, a cross-linguistic influence (Brown 2015) will surface in their

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