Curriculum
Fifth grade students have built an elementary foundation in reading, writing, literature, history, and science. Now they are ready to start tackling complex literature and ideas. The fifth-grade units present a series of ideas related to the life of the mind:
culture
exploration
invention
conflict
coming of age
Beginning with the first unit on exploration, students consider how people make discoveries through social, emotional, emotional, physical, and intellectual exploration exemplified in works through various genres and texts. While building vocabulary and learning multiple meanings of words, students begin to study etymology, thus gaining insight into the relationships among languages.
As the year progresses, students learn how literature can provide insight into culture and history. The units include many connections to history, science, and the arts.
Students develop their writing within three major genres: informational, narrative, and opinion. Additionally, students write reflective essays, reports, journals, stories, and responses to literary works. In their essays, students articulate a central idea and illustrate it with examples, integrate information from several texts, and discuss literary themes. As they continue to learn grammatical concepts and refine their style, students should demonstrate grade-level command of standard English grammar and usage. if you click on the unit, it will bring up the Common Core Standards:
Bridge Unit: Playing with Language
Our History Curriculum was updated last year. It is still a work in progress. These are our new units. More information to follow.
1: Principles of United States Government
2: Slavery, The Legacy of the Civil War and The Struggle for Civil Rights
3: Geography & Early Colonization and Growth of the Colonies
4: Reasons for Revolution, the Revolutionary War, and the Formation of Government
5: The Growth of the Republic