Critical Thinking

• 1. SUM IT UP Create a Main-Idea Diagram. List the main idea of the selection and details that support it. Use your diagram to sum up the selection.

  

• 2. Describe Use details in the photos and the text to describe what a mariachi performer typically wears during a competition.

• 3. Generalize The performers in the selection like to feel close to their roots. Do you think this is true for others who perform ethnic music in the United States? Explain.

• 4. Compare How do the mariachi musicians and Juanita Ulloa feel about their music? How can feelings like these help preserve mariachi music?

Reading Fluency

Phrasing Read the passage on page 589 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.

Written Review Imagine that you want a career as a mariachi performer. Write a list of goals. Use four vocabulary words.

Write About the Guiding Question

Explore Art and Soul

Why is music an important way for people to express themselves? Support your ideas with examples from the selection and your own life.