Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.

Create symbols for main character; Reflect on how the skills of comparing/contrasting will help future reading

Group reviews Double Bubble created in 3R with teacher; refine and edit.

Using their Specs Logs and double bubbles, students create symbols for their main characters:
1. Baseball Fever-Ezra and dad
2. Carruthers: Carruthers and his friends
3. King's Equal: Raphael and Rosamund
4. Soldiers: Henk's life before the war and Benjamin's life after the war

Students create journal entry in Specs Logs explaining how the skills of comparing and contrasting will help them in their future reading work. This is also an opportunity to explore any ideas from thier "My Link" areas of their Specs Logs for this unit.