Learn and Explore

Unit 1:  Choices

EQ and Selection Links

p. 3 Unit Launch

• Read biographies of celebrities and teens who have made difficult choices.
• Take a personality test to find out what traits and talents might influence your choices.
• Play a game to explore the consequences of different choices.

p. 10 René Saldaña, Jr.

• Read an excerpt from The Jumping Tree.
• Learn more about The Great Gatsby and The House on Mango St.

p. 35 Good Samaritan Laws

• Search online for The Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act.
• Check out the topic on the Amercian Medical Association's Web site.

p. 40 Langston Hughes

• Listen to a jazz song with lyrics by Hughes.
• Hear Hughes read and discuss his work.

p. 64 Guy de Maupassant

• See photographs of Paris in the 1800s.
• Read other stories by Guy de Maupassant.

p. 87 Peers Under Pressure

• Learn more about good and bad peer pressure.
• Take a quiz about how peer pressure affects you.