Anchor text: The Outsiders; student choice: "Little Things are Big", "Profile: Malala Yousafzai", "Women Heroes of WWII", or "A Retrieved Reformation" (available to students in online, interactive student edition of myPerspectives textbook); Writing skills: collect, organize, and synthesize information from multiple sources; transitional phrases

Cooperative learning: "Share Your Independent Learning" (p. 346-347 of TE myPerspectives) to compare/contrast/synthesize information