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 Persuasive Writing

In this unit, you learned how writers use techniques to persuade readers. Choose a selection from the unit and create a graphic that shows the persuasive techniques the writer used. It could be a Goal-and-Outcome Chart, a Cause-and-Effect Chart, a Problemand-Solution Chart, or any graphic that shows how the writer used the persuasive technique. Explain your graphic organizer to a partner.

Reading Strategy Synthesize

As you read the selections, you learned to synthesize. 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 can change their ways to benefit the Earth. Choose one of these ways to explore the Guiding Question:

• • Discuss With a group, discuss a show you’ve seen on TV that talked about the need to change our ways to benefit the Earth. Share the key points of your discussion with the rest of the class.

• • Create Create an advertisement that might convince people to make a change to benefit the Earth. Share your advertisement with a group.

• • Write Write a letter to a newspaper editor that persuades readers to make choices that protect the environment. Include information such as statistics and facts from the selections.

Book Talk

Which Unit Library book did you choose? Explain to a partner what it taught you about protecting the environment.