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 writers organize their ideas. Choose a selection from the unit and draw a diagram or other graphic that shows how the text is organized in chronological order. Use your graphic to explain the organization to a partner.

Reading Strategy Make Inferences

As you read, you learned to make inferences. Tell 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 bond over sports. Choose one of these ways to explore the Guiding Question:

• • Discuss With a group, discuss a time when a sport brought you closer to someone or made you feel a part of a group.

• • Role-play With a partner, role-play an interview with one of the people mentioned in “Play Ball!” Include a question about how playing the sport brought certain people together. Then conduct the interview. Perform your role-play for the class.

• • Draw Draw a sporting event. Include details that show people connecting because of the sport. Describe your visual to a partner.

Book Talk

Which Unit Library book did you choose? Explain to a partner what it taught you about people coming together.