ELA

Unit 1: Students can read closely and analytically to comprehend a range of increasingly complex literary and informational texts

• RL.5.1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

• RL.5.2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic

• RL.5.9: Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

• W.5.1.A: Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.

• L.5.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Unit 2: Students can produce effective and well-grounded writing for a range of purposes and audiences

• W.5.3.A: Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

• W.5.3.B: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.

• W.5.3.C: Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.

• W.5.3.D: Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.

• W.5.3.E: Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.

Unit 3: Students can engage in research/inquiry to investigate topics, and to analyze, integrate, and present information

• W.5.2.A: Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

• W.5.2.B: Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.

• W.5.2.C: Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially).

• W.5.2.D: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

• W.5.2.E: Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented.

Unit 4: Students can employ effective speaking and listening skills for a range of purposes and audiences

• SL.5.4: 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.5.5: Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.

• SL.5.6: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, using formal English when appropriate to task and situation.

• SL.5.1.B: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and carry out assigned roles.

• SL.5.1.C: Pose and respond to specific questions by making comments that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others.

Social Studies

• 5.1.1: Identify and describe early cultures and settlements that existed in North America prior to contact with Europeans.

• 5.1.2: Examine accounts of early European explorations of North America including major land and water routes, reasons for exploration and the impact the exploration had.

• 5.1.3: Compare and contrast historic Indian groups of the West, Southwest, Northwest, Arctic and sub-Arctic, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodlands regions at the beginning of European exploration in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 

• 5.1.4: Locate on a map the early Spanish, French, and British settlements, and compare the origins, physical structure, and social structure of these settlements.

• 5.2.8: Describe group and individual actions that illustrate civic virtues, such as civility, cooperation, respect, and responsible participation.

• 5.2.9: Examine ways by which citizens may effectively voice opinions, monitor government, and bring about change in government including voting, and participation in the election process.

• 5.2.10: Use a variety of information resources to identify and evaluate contemporary issues that involve civic responsibility, individual rights, and the common good.

• 5.3.4: Identify Native American and colonial settlements on maps and explain the reasons for the locations of these places.

Science

• 5.PS.2 Demonstrate that regardless of how parts of an object are assembled the mass of the whole object is identical to the sum of the mass of the parts; however, the volume can differ from the sum of the volumes. (Law of Conservation of Mass)

• 5.PS.3 Determine if matter has been added or lost by comparing mass when melting, freezing, or dissolving a sample of a substance. (Law of Conservation of Mass)

• 5.ESS.3 Investigate ways individual communities within the United States protect the Earth’s resources and environment.

• 3-5.E.1 Identify a simple problem with the design of an object that reflects a need or a want. Include criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

• 3-5.E.2 Construct and compare multiple plausible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

• 3-5.E.3 Construct and perform fair investigations in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.