2025 - 2026
January: PBL: The Character's Diary'
We will finish up our Holiday vs Holiday narrative. Then we will move on to comparing and analyzing character, narrator and author points of view in fiction novels. Students will work to discover and identify how a narrator's point of view influences how events are described in fiction . We will then dive deeper into our analysis and infer how a character is affected by a story event.
December:
Reading: Holiday vs. Holiday
In this PBL, 5th graders apply their knowledge and mastery of comparing and contrasting 2 Holidays (of their choice) from the perspective of a character from one of the Holidays. They are practicing how use perspective, figurative language and persuasive writing to create a first person narrative. For example, a ghost could give it's point of view about Valentines Day traditions such as food, clothing and activities.
September - November:
Math: To go along with what students are doing in the classroom the students had follow a rule for an x and y table that helped them track the growth of 2 companies. Students looked for rules, patterns, and predicted when the companies would out perform each other. Our next challenge will be to use what we know about volume to create our volume monsters. Students will be expected to calculate the volume of their creation correctly.
Reading: PBL: Henry Box Brown - Human Rights.
Students work in teams to analyze various historical manuscripts on the same event, by corroborating facts, making inferences and determining if the text they are working with is a primary or secondary source for information. Students will use text evidence to prove their corroborated facts and write a manuscript of their own that reveals the true and factual story of Henry Box Brown.
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