Reflect on Your Reading

Think back on your reading of the unit selections. Discuss what you did to understand what you read.

Focus on Genre Character, Setting, and Plot

In this unit, you learned about some elements of fiction. Choose a selection from the unit and draw a Character-Setting-Plot Chart. Use your chart to summarize the selection. Tell your summary to a partner.

Reading Strategy Monitor Your Reading

As you read the selections, you learned to monitor your reading. Explain to a partner how you will use this strategy in the future.

Explore the Guiding Question

Throughout this unit, you have been thinking about how people play to their strengths. Choose one of these ways to explore the Guiding Question:

• • Discuss With a group, discuss movies you’ve seen or books you’ve read where people have special talents. What were the characters’ talents? Did they always use them wisely? Explain.

• • Role-Play Imagine you and a partner are each one of the key characters in each selection. Share your talent and how you used it wisely or unwisely.

• • Interview Interview a partner about his or her most interesting talent. How could he or she put it to good use? List questions to ask and record the answers. Share your interview with the class.

Book Talk

Which Unit Library book did you choose? Explain to a partner what it taught you about using talent wisely.