Week 1:

Essential Question: What is the Value of Innovation?

Enduring Understanding: Studying the past helps us understand the traditions that influence our lives today?

Writing Skill: Opinion Essays

Vocabulary Words: advances, communications, curious, degree, innovations, physicist, concept, inventor, rotary, technology

Grammar Skill: Conjunctions & Compound Sentences

Spelling Words: (VCe Spelling Patterns)

desire, include, enclosed, place, excuse, recognize, extreme, surprise, grade, telephone, huge, whole

Week 2:

Essential Question: What is the Value of Innovation?

Enduring Understanding: Studying the past helps us understand the traditions that influence our lives today?

Writing Skill: Opinion Essays

Vocabulary Words: concentrate, device, inspiration, laboratory, obtained, produced, suspected, transmitted, phonograph, telegraph

Grammar Skill: Coordinating Conjunctions

Spelling Words: (Vowel R Syllables)

force, pattern, perfect, squirm, sturdy, mother, over, perform

Week 3:

Essential Question: What is the Value of Innovation?

Enduring Understanding: Studying the past helps us understand the traditions that influence our lives today?

Writing Skill: Opinion Essays

Vocabulary Words: converts, exchange, independent, integrate, participation, solve, American Sign Language, deafness, internet, smart phone

Grammar Skill: Simple, Compound, & Complex Sentences

Spelling Words: (-ed and -ing Endings)

 studying, feeling, pointed, recommended, scratching, waited, carried, using