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 Comparing and Contrasting

In this unit, you learned about comparison and contrast. Choose two selections from the unit. Explain to a partner the similarities and differences between the two selections.

Reading Strategy Make Connections

As you read the selections, you learned how making connections helps you understand what you read. 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’s locations affect the way they live. Choose one of these ways to explore the Guiding Question:

• • Discuss With a group, discuss the Guiding Question. Listen and learn from your classmates’ responses. Discuss examples from the selections that support your ideas.

• • Write Write a letter to, or as, one of the people in this unit. Compare your location to that of the person you’re writing to.

• • Draw Create a visual response to the Guiding Question. It could be a drawing of your community, state, country, or Earth. Show how this location affects the way you live.

Book Talk

Which Unit Library book did you choose? Explain to a partner what it taught you about feeling at home in the world.