ASPIRE Fifth grade

ASPIRE Fifth-grade Curriculum Calendar *COMING SOON*

English Language Arts - Year at a Glance

Unit 1: Journey

Unit 2: Exploring

Unit 3: Historical Fiction with Drama and Poetry

Unit 4: Elements of Persuasion in Arguments

Unit 5: Being Persuasive When Writing an Argument

Unit 6: Debating and Public Service Announcements

Unit 7: Exploring Poetry, Other Genres, and the Dynamics in Debate

Unit 8: Eras of American History Research

Social Studies - Year at a Glance

Unit 1: These United States: A Varied Landscape

Unit 2: Exploration and Colonization

Unit 3: The Thirteen Colonies and the French and Indian War

Unit 4: Creating the United States of America

Unit 5: A New Nation Is Born

Unit 6: War of 1812 and America's Westward Expansion

Unit 7: Civil War: Dividing and Rebuilding the Union

Unit 8: Industrialization and Entering the Modern Era

Unit 9: The 20th Century - Beginning of the Modern Era

Unit 10: United States of America - Leader Among Nations

Unit 11: Celebrate Freedom Week

Mathematics - Year at a Glance

Unit 1: Personal Financial Literacy

Unit 2: Place Value, Whole Numbers, and Decimals

Unit 3: Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers

Unit 4: Multiplication and Division of Decimals Unit

Unit 5: Fraction Operations and Rational Numbers

Unit 6: Order of Operations and Algebraic Reasoning

Unit 7: Data Analysis

Unit 8: Graphing and Number Patterns

Unit 9: Geometry and Measurement

Unit 10: STAAR Review & Extensions

Science

Unit 0: Onward We Go

Unit 1: Matter

Unit 2: Changes in Matter

Unit 3: Organism Survival

Unit 4: Energy Flow and Ecosystem Interactions

Unit 5: Impacts of Conservation

Unit 6: Patterns of the Sky

Unit 7: Earth's Processes and Cycles

Unit 8: Changes to Earth's Surface

Unit 9: Force and Motion

Unit 10: Energy Transformations

Unit 11: Electricity and Light