Critical Thinking

• 1. SUM IT UP Work with a partner to role-play an interview with Diaz. Ask about her career and her organization.

  Ms. Diaz, what is First Slice?

  It is an organic soup kitchen.

• 2. Analyze Review the Anticipation Guide on page 574. Do you have new ideas? With a group, discuss the benefits of an organization like First Slice.

• 3. Draw Conclusions Why does Diaz put so much thought into choosing ingredients? Support your conclusion with evidence from the text.

• 4. Speculate If Diaz read the essays and the poem, which might give her inspiration? Explain.

Reading Fluency

Phrasing Read the passage on page 656 to a partner. Assess your fluency.

• 1. I read

  • a. great

  • b. OK

  • c. not very well

• 2. What I did best in my reading was _______.

Reading Strategy

Vocabulary Review

Oral Review Read the paragraph aloud. Add the vocabulary words.

One way to help your community is to support an _______ that feeds the hungry. Meet with the _______ who started it, or share ideas with other members. For example, you could cook, buy, or even grow _______ vegetables and other healthy _______. If you have a busy job or _______, you can _______ money instead. The _______ of helping include new friendships, as well as more hope and _______ for everyone.

Written Review Imagine you had an organic garden. Write a diary entry to tell how you would use it to provide food for your community. Use five vocabulary words.

Write About the Guiding Question

Explore Feeding Our Communities

What advice would you give to the founder of an organization to feed people in need? Use examples from the selections to support your advice.