During the course of the year students will be working on the following items in addition to mastering standards: 

• Membean 

• DEP- Differentiated Education Project

• Novel Studies

  • 6 total 

• Extended Writing Assignment

Novel Studies: 

Unit 1 

• 5th Grade: The Jungle Book  by Rudyard Kipling  

• 6th Grade: Great Tales and Poems  by Edgar Allan Poe          

Unit 2

• 5th Grade: Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin             

• 6th Grade: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai   OR    Ghost by Jason Reynolds

Unit 3 

• 5th Grade: Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad  by Ann Petry       

• 6th Grade: A Night to Remember by Walter Lord   

Unit 4

•    5th Grade: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy 

• 6th Grade: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Unit 5

• 5th Grade: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

• 6th Grade: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 

Unit 6

• 5th Grade: The Giver by Lois Lowry

• 6th Grade: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

We are always in need of donations of the above Novels. Since we use them daily, they tend to get beat up throughout the years. 

DEP- Differentiated Education Project 

DEP Resource & Guidelines Slides 

5th Grade Fall Guidelines 

6th Grade Fall Guidelines