Unit 1 "Introduction to Stories"
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic.
Summarize the text.
Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense and aspect.
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
Unit 2 "A Family Hero"
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details.
Summarize the text.
Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented.
Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense and aspect.
Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
Unit 3 "Battle of the Books"
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic.
Summarize the text.
Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
Compare and contrast stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense and aspect.
Determine or Clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Use the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words.
Unit 4 "Order in the Court"
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence supports which point(s).
Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Use the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words.
Unit 5 "Fractured Fairytales"
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic.
Summarize the text.
Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
Compare and contrast stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.
Unit 6 "Save Our Shores"
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details
Summarize the text.
Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence supports which point(s).
Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
Unit 1 "Connecting Themes"
Beliefs and Ideals
Conflict and Change
Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
Location
Movement and Migration
Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Scarcity
Unit 2 "Citizenship, Economics, and the Government"
Beliefs and Ideals
Due Process
The Amendment Process
Protection of Voting Rights through Constitutional Amendments
Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Four sectors of the U.S. economy
How people earn income by selling their labor to businesses
Unit 3 "Bigger, Better, Faster: The Changing Nation"
Individuals, Groups, & Institutions
Black Cowboys of TX
How McKinley & T. Roosevelt expanded America’s role in the world
U.S. immigration
Location
Chisholm Trail, Pittsburgh, PA, Kitty Hawk, NC, Chicago, IL
Movement/Migration
Locations influenced by population, transportation, and resources
Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Price incentives
Voluntary exchange promotes economic activity
Technology Innovation
Flight (Wright Bros), Science (GWC), Communication (Bell), Electricity (Edison)
Unit 4 "War and Prosperity: WWI and the Roaring 20's"
Production, Distribution, and Consumption
How specialization improves standard of living and productivity
Entrepreneurship
Technology Innovation
Automobile - Henry Ford
Transatlantic Flight - Charles Lindbergh
Unit 5 "The Great Depression and the New Deal"
Conflict & Change
Stock Market Crash
Dust Bowl & Soup Kitchens
New Deal Programs: CCC, WPA, and TVA
Individuals, Groups, & Institutions
Hoover & FDR
Cultural Contributors: Duke Ellington, Margaret Mitchell, Jesse Owens
Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Government function in the economy
Earning income by selling labor
Four sectors of the U.S. economy
Unit 6 "Another World War"
Conflict & Change
German aggression in Europe & Japanese aggression in Asia
Major events in WWII
Atomic Bomb
United Nations formation
Individuals, Groups, & Institutions
WWII Leaders
Rosie the Riveter
Tuskegee Airmen
Location
Pearl Harbor, HI
Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Opportunity costs in the context of WWII rationing
Unit 7 "War Turns Cold"
Beliefs and Ideals
Protection of voting rights: 26th amendment
Conflict & Change
Iron Curtain
U.S. attempts to stop the spread of communism
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Korean War
Individuals, Groups, & Institutions
Joseph McCarthy
Nikita Khrushchev
Technology Innovation
Television
Space Exploration
Unit 8 "Civil Rights Address Civil Wrongs"
Beliefs and Ideals
Protection of voting rights: 15th and 24th amendments
Conflict & Change
Brown v. Board of Education
Montgomery Bus Boycott
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Location
Montgomery, AL
Individuals, Groups, & Institutions
Jim Crow Laws and practices
Thurgood Marshall
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cesar Chavez
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leader Assassinations
Technological Innovation
Television
Unit 9 "US from 1975 to the Digital Age"
Conflict & Change
Collapse of the Soviet Union
September 11, 2001
Individuals, Groups, & Institutions
Ronald Reagan
Technology Innovation
Personal Computers
Internet
Unit 10 "Personal Finance"
Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Personal budget
Income, expenditures, and saving
Unit 1 Whole Number Operations
Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using standard algorithm or other strategies.
Fluently divide using place value strategies, properties of operations, and/or relationship between multiplication and division.
Evaluate expressions with parentheses, brackets, or braces.
Write and interpret numerical expressions.
Recognize digits in a number as having a value of 10 times more than the place to it’s right or 1/10 the value of the place to it’s left.
Unit 2 Decimal Operations
Perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with decimals to hundredths using a variety of strategies and explain the reasoning used.
Read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths.
Round decimals to the hundredths place.
Explain patterns when multiplying and dividing by powers of 10
Unit 3 Geometry
Identify attributes of 2D figures and classify figures in a hierarchy based on their properties.
Understand how to place and interpret points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane.
Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant and interpreting coordinate values.
Identify relationships between terms by completing an input/output table and graphing data on the coordinate plane
Unit 4 Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Add/subtract fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators using common denominators & equivalent fractions.
Solve addition and subtraction fraction word problems; use benchmark fractions and number sense to estimate and assess reasonableness.
Interpret fractions as division
Unit 5 Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Solve real world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers.
Solve real world problems involving division with whole numbers and unit fractions.
Interpret fractions as division.
Interpret fraction multiplication as scaling.
Unit 6 Measurement and Volume
Compute volume of rectangular prisms and composite figures.
Solve real world problems involving volume of rectangular prisms and composite figures.
Relate volume to addition and multiplication.
Convert standard units of measurement within the customary and metric systems
Unit 1 Earth Processes
Identify surface features as being caused by constructive and/or destructive processes
Use models to show how changes in surface features were caused by constructive/destructive processes
Investigate role of technology to limit and/or predict the impact of constructive & destructive processes
Unit 2 Electricity and Magnetism
Explain the difference between naturally occurring electricity and human-harnessed electricity
Design a simple electric circuit
Determine if materials are insulators or conductors of electricity
Communicate differences between electromagnets and magnets
Interactions between magnetic field and magnetic object
Unit 3 Chemical and Physical Changes
Investigate physical changes
Relate physical changes in water to temperature changes
Use evidence to determine if a chemical change occurred
Unit 4 Classification
Organisms are grouped using scientific classification procedures
Animals are grouped into vertebrate and invertebrate
Vertebrates are sorted into the groups of fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal using data
Plants are sorted into seed producing and non-seed producing using data
Unit 5 Cells & Microorganisms
Plants and animals are comprised of cells too small to be seen without magnification
Identify and label parts of plant and animal cells
Differentiate the structure of plant and animal cells
Microorganisms are single-celled organisms too small to be seen without magnification
Some microorganisms are beneficial
Some microorganisms are harmful
Unit 6 Genetics
Some characteristics of organisms are inherited and others are acquired
Compare and contrast instincts with learned behaviors
Compare and contrast inherited and acquired physical traits