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 try to persuade readers. Choose the selection from the unit that you thought was most persuasive. List reasons that support your opinion. Trade lists with a partner.

Reading Strategy Synthesize

As you read the selections, you learned to synthesize. Explain to a partner how this skill could be useful in the future.

Explore the Guiding Question

Throughout this unit, you have explored how people provide food for their communities. Choose one of these ways to explore the Guiding Question:

• • Discuss With a group, discuss the Guiding Question. Remember, there can be many answers. Use details from the selections to support your ideas.

• • Interview Conduct an interview with a partner. Take turns role-playing a character or person in one of the selections. Ask questions to find out the best ways to help end hunger.

• • Dramatize With a group, create a skit about a community that faces a conflict in providing food for people. Act out your skit for other groups.

Book Talk

Which Unit Library book did you choose? Explain to a partner what it taught you about the ways people provide for or help their communities.