Quinn & Sidenbender - 5th Grade

Unit 1: The Stories We Tell

Interpreting Texts (Reading)

Foundations
- Decode & encode words with multiple letter-sound correspondences & words of all syllable types.
- Read accurately with expression and automatic prosody to aid comprehension.
Language
- Apply sentence structure understandings to comprehend grade-level text.
- Acquire a range of general, academic, and specialized vocabulary.
- Use context to determine or clarify meanings; shades of meaning.
Texts
- Analyze narrative techniques; compare/contrast stories in same genre.
- Determine purposes, audiences, and narrator’s perspective to make meaning of texts.
- Classify texts by mode; make inference about context; describe impact of figurative language.
- Describe how features/structures represent ideas & information.
- Refer to text to support idea, answer, or opinion.

Constructing Texts (Writing)

Foundations
- Form legible letters and connectors in cursive.
Language
- Grammar: Indefinite and intensive pronouns
- Usage: Vague pronoun references
- Mechanics: Commas after introductory phrases or clauses
- Use a variety of simple and compound sentences, with correct subject-verb agreement, consistent verb tense, elaboration, & precise vocabulary to convey meaning.
Texts
- Apply narrative techniques to shape meaning using suitable text designs, modes, transitions, and clear, cohesive paragraphs.

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

Unit 1: Volume

Investigate volume of right rectangular prisms using unit cubes.

Discover how volume can be found using properties of right rectangular prisms.

Write, interpret, and evaluate numerical expressions that represent volume.

Unit 2: Measurement & Place Value

Explain the relationships between values of digits in numbers involving fractional comparison.

Explain patterns when multiplying and dividing by powers of ten.

Convert among customary and metric measurement units to explore real-life problems.

Ask and answer questions based on data to solve relevant problems.

Unit 3: Whole Number

Multiplication & Division

Fluently multiply and divide multi-digit whole numbers to solve real-life problems.

Write, interpret, and evaluate numerical expressions to represent real-life problems.

Ask and answer questions based on data to solve relevant problems.

Unit 4: Fractions

Addition & Subtraction

Compare and order fractions with different numerators and denominators.

Model addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators to solve real-world problems.

Ask and answer questions based on data represented with a dot plot to solve relevant problems.

Unit 5: Fraction

Multiplication & Division

Solve and explain problems involving division of whole numbers with fractional quotients.

Model and reason about multiplication of fractions and whole numbers to solve real-world problems.

Model division of unit fractions and whole numbers to solve real-world problems.

Unit 6: Decimal Place Value

with Addition & Subtraction

Read, write, compare, and order decimal numbers in standard and expanded forms.

Use place value reasoning to round decimal numbers.

Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of decimal numbers.

Ask and answer questions based on data to solve relevant problems.

Unit 7: Geometry &

the Coordinate Plane

Generate patterns and identify relationships between them by completing a table.

Represent problems by plotting points in the coordinate plane.

Examine and classify polygons and rectangular prisms into categories and subcategories based on their properties.

Unit 1 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 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 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 4 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 5 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

Unit 6 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