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 Organization of Ideas

In this unit, you learned about some ways that writers organize ideas. Choose a selection from the unit and draw a diagram or other graphic that shows its organization. It could be a Cause-and-Effect Chart or a Sequence Chain. Use your graphic to explain the organization of ideas to a partner.

Reading Strategy Visualize

As you read the selections, you learned to visualize. 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 new chapters in life. Choose one of these ways to explore the Guiding Question:

• • Discuss With a group, discuss new chapters in your lives. Ask questions with Why, What, When, Where, or How. Share what you learned about one classmate with the class.

• • Write Think about one experience the characters in either “Brothers in Hope” or “Refugees Find New Lives” had after arriving in the United States. Write a journal entry about it.

• • Draw Think about a television show or movie where someone had to start over. Create a visual that shows the experience. Describe it to a partner.

Book Talk

Which Unit Library book did you choose? Explain to a partner what it taught you about starting a new chapter in life.