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 ideas. Choose “The Constitution” or “Kids Take Action” and draw a diagram that shows how the text is organized. Use your drawing to explain the text organization to a partner.

Reading Strategy Determine Importance

As you read the selections, you learned how to determine importance. 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 fairness. Choose one of these ways to explore the Guiding Question:

• • Discuss With a group, discuss the Guiding Question. Give details from the selections that support your ideas.

• • Plan With a group, brainstorm examples of unfairness. Recall what people in the selections did when life was unfair. Make a plan to show actions they might take to improve one situation.

• • Illustrate Show fairness in action in a collage. Use ideas from the selections and your experience.

Book Talk

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