In this whole-class novel study of Francisco Jimenez's "The Circuit," students collaborate on a series of tasks that reinforce skills with inference, author's purpose, characterization, argument, forming and supporting claims, prediction, and theme. The essential question that drives the unit is "What does it mean to belong?"Tasks include* annotation of an informational text about the author * double-entry journal to record inferences and textual evidence in the chapter "Under the Wire"* close-r