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Pathways curriculum theme focusing on the content area health and guidance. The literature for this theme stresses personal issues and struggles as students move from one stage of development to another. The early literature focuses on student’s growing knowledge of themselves and their own potential. The literature for the middle and upper grades explores an individual’s personal feelings and growth, change, peer pressure, and family relationships. Students experience a character’s feelings of sadness, loss, anger, happiness, and life. Character development is essential to the spiritual journey.


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    A Family Apart - Daily Lesson Guide Grade 5
    NAD Pathways Grade 5 selection for Theme 7: Personal Feelings and Growth. When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

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    A Single Shard - Daily Lesson Guide and Trade Book Grade 8
    NAD Pathways Grade 8 selection for Theme 7: Personal Feelings and Growth."Tree-ear has a dream. He has watched the master potter Min take a lump of clay and shape it into a thing of beauty. For Tree-ear, the transformation is a miracle. He wants to perform...

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    Julius! The Perfectly Pesky Pet Parrot - Daily Lesson Guide and Trade Book Grade 3
    NAD Pathways Grade 4 selection for theme 7: Personal Feelings & Growth. With the help of his pet parrot, Mitch makes some important discoveries about friendship, responsibility, and love.

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    Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match - Daily Lesson Guide and Trade Book Grade 2
    NAD Pathways Grade 2 selection for Theme 7: Personal Feelings and Growth. "Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are her favorite combinations. She prefers peanut butter and jelly burritos in her lunch box. To...

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    Maritcha - A Nineteenth Century American Girl - Daily Lesson Guide and Trade Book Grade 7
    NAD Pathways Grade 7 selection for Theme 7: Personal Feelings and Growth. "Maritcha was born in New York City in 1848. For most of her youth, she and her family lived in Lower Manhattan. Her life mirrored that of many children of the time, but it took...

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    NAD Grade 3 Reading Comprehension Worksheets Grade 3-Grade 4
    Note: This resource is based on the original Pathways theme book selections. There is some overlap with Pathways 2.0. Access worksheets and keys created by Wisconsin small school teacher Ron Wood for each of the North American Division of Seventh-day...

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    NAD Grade 4 Reading Comprehension Worksheets Grade 3-Grade 4
    Note: This resource is based on the original Pathways theme book selections. There is some overlap with Pathways 2.0. Access worksheets and keys created by Wisconsin small school teacher Ron Wood for each of the North American Division of Seventh-day...

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    NAD Grade 5 Reading Comprehension Worksheets Grade 5-Grade 6
    Note: This resource is based on the original Pathways theme book selections. There is some overlap with Pathways 2.0. Access worksheets and keys created by Wisconsin small school teacher Ron Wood for each of the North American Division of Seventh-day...

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    NAD Grade 6 Reading Comprehension Worksheets Grade 5-Grade 6
    Note: This resource is based on the original Pathways theme book selections. There is some overlap with Pathways 2.0. Access worksheets and keys created by Wisconsin small school teacher Ron Wood for each of the North American Division of Seventh-day...

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    NAD Grade 7 Reading Comprehension Worksheets Grade 7-Grade 8
    Note: This resource is based on the original Pathways theme book selections. There is some overlap with Pathways 2.0. Access worksheets and keys created by Wisconsin small school teacher Ron Wood for each of the North American Division of Seventh-day...

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    NAD Grade 8 Reading Comprehension Worksheets Grade 7-Grade 8
    Note: This resource is based on the original Pathways theme book selections. There is some overlap with Pathways 2.0. Access worksheets and keys created by Wisconsin small school teacher Ron Wood for each of the North American Division of Seventh-day...

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    Song of the Trail - Daily Lesson Guide and Trade Book Grade 8
    NAD Pathways Grade 6 selection for Theme 7: Personal Feelings & Growth. "Each spring, Old Doroteo drives one of Jess Cameron’s six flocks of sheep across the desert to the high summer pastures, where the grazing is lush and water is plentiful....

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    The Art Lesson - Daily Lesson Guide Grade 1
    NAD Pathways Grade 1 selection for Theme 7: Personal Feelings and Growth. "Tommy wants to be an artist when he grows up, and he can’t wait to meet his art teacher when he gets to first grade. Then he finds out that she expects him to copy her pictures....

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    The Gardener - Daily Lesson Guide and Trade Book Grade 3
    NAD Pathways Grade 3 selection for Theme 7: Personal Feelings and Growth. "It’s the 1930s, and when Lydia Grace’s family can’t make ends meet, she’s packed on a train with her pockets and bags filled with seeds and sent to live...

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    Unique Hands-on Literature Units Grade 5-Grade 8
    "These interactive literature units make reading class fun while actively engaging the students in a hands-on experience that helps them understand and appreciate the story. These lesson plans will also help to organize the teacher and help to teach a...