READING
Readers will engage in our Poetry Unit. In this unit students will read a wide variety of poetry in order to:
• Understand that responding to poetry through movement, speech, or art, furthers understanding and interpretation. • Understand that the meaning of a poem is constructed by the poet and the reader interacting with text. In order to uncover the deeper meaning of a poem, readers weigh the author’s perspective with their own. • Understand that poetic tools reveal images, evoke feelings, and produce sounds to create a message for the reader to interpret.
Readers will also make connections to the quarterly theme of "Change," thinking of what patterns of change can be found in literature.
WRITING
This month we will work on our next writing unit, "Poetry." This is integrated into our reading unit. This unit includes:
Students using the wide variety of poems that they read and topics of interest to form ideas for writing their own poems.
Understanding that poetic tools reveal images, evoke feelings, and produce sounds to create a message for the reader to interpret.
Vocabulary Connection: Poets engage readers by using just the right word or phrase so that they see the ordinary in an extraordinary way, see connections among things, and help the reader visualize what the writer is describing
In this unit, students explore the language of algebra as they learn the meaning of a variable and apply this understanding to the translation of patterns, models, and story contexts to algebraic expressions and equations. Students use tables, words and symbols to describe and express relationships found in number patterns as well as use concrete materials, pictures and tables to identify, describe, and extend numerical patterns.
Unit 5-Coordinate Plane and Congruence
In this unit, students will working with the coordinate plane. They will also learn about congruence of segments, angles and polygons. As this unit continues, we will explore graphing polygons on a coordinate plane.
Identify the components of the coordinate plane.
Identify the coordinates of a point and graph ordered pairs in a coordinate plane.
Determine congruence of segments, angles, and polygons.
Unit 6: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities
In this unit, students will work with variables, write expressions, solve expressions, solve one-step linear equations and inequalities, and graph inequalities on a number line.
Simplify numerical expressions involving integers.
Solve one-step linear equations in one variable, including practical problems that require the solution of a one-step linear equation in one variable.
Represent a practical situation with a linear inequality in one variable.
Solve one-step linear inequalities in one variable, involving addition or subtraction, and graph the solution on a number line.
Quarter 3:
This unit of study focuses on the energy of light and sound. Throughout the unit students develop their understanding of the nature of science, particularly the concept that the natural world is understandable and that science is based on evidence, both observational and experimental.
The Light and Sound unit consists of a series of activities which guide students as they explore the basic concepts of light energy and sound energy. Through hands-on investigations, students learn to inquire, observe, experiment, solve problems, collect and record information, and come to conclusions concerning light and sound. Activities allow students to explore the straight path of light and how to change that path by reflection and refraction. They learn that light is reflected, absorbed, or transmitted by matter. Through experimental design, the students test the ability of different materials to reflect light energy. Students compare transverse waves that carry light (electromagnetic energy) to the compression waves that carry sound. Students simulate both types of waves to visualize how energy is transmitted by a wave. Students investigate the relationship between sound and the vibrations which cause sound. They use several devices to produce sounds that vary in frequency (pitch) and amplitude. Students compare sounds transmitted through various media and different phases of matter. Finally, students investigate the many uses and applications of sound by people and animals.
Students will know…
● basic characteristics of visible light
● the colors of the visible spectrum
● terms opaque, transparent, and translucent
● prism effect on white light
● the relationship between refraction of light and rainbows
● the parts of compression and transverse waves
● why sound waves travel only where there is matter
● the relationship between frequency and pitch
● the relationship between wavelength and the color of light
● what factors affect the pitch of a vibrating object
● the uses and applications of sound waves
Students will be skilled at…
● diagramming and labeling a representation of a light wave
● using mirrors to understand the reflection of light
● comparing and contrasting reflection and refraction
● creating and interpreting a model or diagram of a compression wave
● describe what sound is and how it is formed, affects matter, and travels
● comparing and contrasting sound traveling through a solid vs. through air
● comparing and contrasting human sound and hearing with those of animals
● comparing and contrasting how musical instruments make sound
Quarter 3:
Students will begin working on the GATP project, or the Global Awareness Technology Project. Visit the following Google Site for more detailed information about the project: https://sites.google.com/fcpsschools.net/global-awareness-tech-project/home Big Ideas and Questions
💡 Big Ideas Students will Explore
Culture is a way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs. Culture is how people think, act, celebrate, and make rules.
Human beings create, learn, share, and adapt to culture.
Cultural values, norms, and belief systems shape the identity and behavior of a group of people.
💡 Essential Questions Students will Seek to Answer
How do cultural universals (art, leadership, government, innovations, geography, etc.) influence a society or culture?
How did certain cultural universals from the past influence modern day cultures around the world?
What connections can be made between aspects of ancient civilizations from the past to our modern day world?
How have technology and innovations within certain cultures changed over time?
How do innovations from ancient cultures continue to influence our modern day society?
How can you as a researcher develop and grow ideas about a topic?
How can you as a researcher demonstrate your depth of knowledge?