The Day We Sent a Message to Aliens

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You’ll love this delightful collection of “interviews,” in which dogs describe their people. Includes a questionnaire to do with your dog!

• How to Tickle a Pig and Other Invaluable Lessons

• How Would Your Dog Depict You?

• Living Aimlessly, With Dog

• The Extraterrestrials in My Backpack

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Allie is not excited about spending a year in Ohio on her grandparents’ farm. But what she will learn in that year will be more precious to her than all the riches in the world.

• How to Tickle a Pig and Other Invaluable Lessons

• How Would Your Dog Depict You?

• Living Aimlessly, With Dog

• The Extraterrestrials in My Backpack

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Jason’s parents get the shock of their lives when he brings home a family of tiny creatures who claim to be from the planet “Eos.”

• How to Tickle a Pig and Other Invaluable Lessons

• How Would Your Dog Depict You?

• Living Aimlessly, With Dog

• The Extraterrestrials in My Backpack

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People are always telling Paul that he needs to find “direction” in life. He needs a “purpose,” they say. Honestly though? Paul is quite happy living without a plan, ready to discover whatever the universe has in store for him and his dog.

• How to Tickle a Pig and Other Invaluable Lessons

• How Would Your Dog Depict You?

• Living Aimlessly, With Dog

• The Extraterrestrials in My Backpack

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"Jo’s help was invaluable/extraterrestrial—we couldn’t have finished the project without her."

• Invaluable

• Extraterrestrial

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"At Sam’s graduation party, his parents played a compilation/pore of funny home videos."

• Compilation

• Pore

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"The pirate pored/depicted over the treasure map, studying it carefully for hours."

• Pored

• Depicted

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"Scientists learned that the strange rocks were extraterrestrial/invaluable—bits of a small meteorite that landed on Earth last year."

• Extraterrestrial

• Invaluable

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On page 26, Mackenzie Carro writes:

“the idea of scientists sending a message to aliens might sound like science fiction.”

This comparison suggests that...

• searching for extraterrestrial life is expensive.

• communicating with aliens seems far-fetched.

• scientists did not want to attach messages to the Voyager spacecrafts.

• scientists got the idea for the Golden Record from a novel.

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How does the section “Floating Forever” contribute to the article?

• It explains where the Voyagers are today.

• It explains NASA’s role in the U.S. government.

• It provides background information about the outer planets

• It explains how Sagan got the idea to send a message to extraterrestrials.

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