Unit 1

Esential Question:

How can a place affect how we live?

Writing Focus: Narrative

Unit 2 

Essential Queston:

How do living thinsgs adapt to the world around them?

Writing Focus: INformational Text

Unit 3 

Essential Queston:

How can we reach new understandings through exploring diversity?

Writing Focus: Fiction

Unit 4 

Essential Queston:

How do stories shape our world?

Writing Focus:Traditional Literature (Fiction)

Unit 5 

Essential Queston:

Why is it imortant to understand out planet?

Writing Focus: Informational Text