Reflect on Your Reading
Completion requirements
Unit 4
How Do We Express Ourselves?
Activity
Reflect on Your Reading
In this lesson, you will think about the essential question of this unit: How do we express ourselves?
Then, you will share what you learned about the arts pieces and opinion articles you read, viewed, and heard.

Begin with the reflection.
Use a KWL Chart as your Reflection Organizer. Review the KWL Chart in Unit 2, What Is Fair? to remember how this organizer works.
There are two options for using a KWL Chart:
Download PDF
- Download the document KWL Chart: Expressing Ourselves.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: When the download screen opens:
- Click the "Open with" button.
- Select "Adobe Reader".
- Click "OK".
- You will then be able to view the document KWL Chart: Expressing Ourselves.
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Skill Builder: Saving Dynamic PDFs.
Instructions
- Go to the website: KWL Chart Creator.
- Enter your name and the topic: Expressing Ourselves.
- Click Continue.
- In the chart,
- K stands for What You Know
- W stands for What You Want to Know
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L stands for What You Have Learned
- Fill in the chart under What You Know, answering these questions:
- What have you learned about expressing yourself so far? Think about the opinion pieces you have read and the entertainment issues that were presented.
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What have you learned about preferences for arts and entertainment experiences?
- Write down your ideas on the chart. Add each idea by clicking +Add Heading.
- Then click Next.
- Fill out the chart under What I Want to Know, answering these questions:
- What questions do you have regarding how we express ourselves?
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Do you wonder what other ways there are to express our opinions, ideas, and feelings?
- Leave the last section, What I Learned, blank for now. You will complete it at the end of the unit.
- Click Finish.
- Click Save Draft.
- Choose a name for your file. (Example: jsmith_kwlchartunit4)
- Click Save.
- Click on Documents folder.
- Click Save. Your KWL Chart is in your Documents folder for you to use later.
Skill Builder
To learn How to Complete a KWL Chart, click the Skill Builder button to access the Skill Builder page, then view Research Skills - How To Complete a KWL Chart.
Save
How to save a file:
- Have the file open and select Save As from the File menu.
- Name your KWL Chart: Expressing Ourselves file in this format: jsmith_kwlchartunit4 and save the file to your Documents folder.