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 how writers use cause and effect to organize their ideas. Choose a selection from the unit, and make a Cause-and-Effect Chain that shows how the text is organized. Use your graphic to explain the organization to a partner.

Reading Strategy Determine Importance

As you read the selections, you learned to summarize, identify main ideas and details, and determine what is important. 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 freedom. Choose one way to explore the Guiding Question:

• • Discuss With a group, discuss the Guiding Question. Talk about personal qualities, such as vision, courage, or an ability to plan, that can help people in the struggle for human rights.

• • Create a Journal Imagine that you live in a country with a terrible dictator. Write a journal of your experiences. Explain what you will do for freedom.

• • Draw Create a visual interpretation of your answer to the Guiding Question. Explain to a partner how your artwork is a picture of your response.

Book Talk

Which Unit Library book did you choose? Explain to a partner what it taught you about the need for freedom.