Theme: America in Conflict

Essential Question: How are fictionalized characters and real people changed through conflict?

Literature:

• • Describe how a narrators or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described. RL. 5.6 

Informational: 

• • Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text. RI. 5.3 

  • Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts. RI. 5.5 

Language:

• • Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. L.5.4 

Speaking and Listening:

• • Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace. SL.5.4 

Foundational:

• • Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. RF.5.3 

    • A. Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context. 

  • Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. RF.5.4 

    • A. Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. 

    • B. Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. 

    • C. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding rereading as necessary 

Theme: Coming of Age

Essential Question: How can literature help us understand what it means to “grow up”?

Literature:

• • Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact). RL.5.3 

Informational:

• • Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view represent. RI.5.6 

Language:

• Compare and contrast the varieties of English (e.g., dialects, registers) used in stories, dramas, or poems. L.5.3(b) 

Speaking and Listening:

• Include multimedia components (e.g. graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes. SL.5.5 

Foundational:

• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. RF.5.3 

  • A. Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context. 

• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. RF.5.4 

  • A. Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. 

  • B. Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. 

  • C. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.