Unit 3: Details and Synthesis

Big Ideas:

• Growing ideas

• Thinking about characters

• Finding Theme

• Compare and contrast themes across texts

Writing

Unit 4: Literary Essay

Big Ideas:

• Writing about reading: Literary essays

  • Character trait

  • Character change

• Raising the quality of literary essays

• Writing compare/contrast essays with theme focus

Word Study

Focuses:

• Grammar

• Vocabulary

• Spelling

• Punctuation

• Capitalization

• Mechanics

Math

Unit 3: Multi-Digit Operations and Measurement: Multiplication, Division, Perimeter and Area

Focus Skills:

• Lesson 11: Multiply by 1-digit numbers

• Lesson 12: Multiply by 2-digit numbers

• Lesson 13: Use multiplication to convert measurements

• Lesson 14: Divide 3-digit numbers

• Lesson 15: Divide 4-digit numbers

• Lesson 16: Find perimeter and area

Social Studies

Unit 1: Does Where You Live Matter?

Unit 2: The Impact of the Colonial and Revolutionary War 

Unit 3: Women to Be Considered "Equal" to Men in New York?" 

Science