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