Learn and Explore

Unit 3:  The Ties that Bind

EQ and Selection Links

p. 229 Unit Launch

• Read real-life stories of teens who have faced a question of loyalty.

p. 236 Piri Thomas

• Watch Piri Thomas perform several of his poems.
• Explore Piri Thomas’s East Harlem neighborhood today.

p. 264 Jay Bennett

• Find out more about the American justice system.
• Listen to a recording of a radio drama.

p. 291 The Faces of Loyalty

• Search the archive of a documentary TV program.
• Review an online biographical dictionary.
• Read news features in a national magazine.

p. 296 Elsa Marston

• Discover what Elsa Marston has to say about “The Hand of Fatima.”
• View photographs of Lebanon and Lebanese life.