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, 

& 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

& 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