CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
2011-2012
LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading
Writing
Poetry Unit (including types/uses figurative language)
Don Quixote
Secret Garden
Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Case of the Red-Headed League” (Holmes)
Russian and Japanese Literature
AUG-SEPT
SEPT
SEPT-OCT
OCT-NOV
NOV
DEC
Little Women
Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Tom Sawyer
Civil War Novel selections
Sign of the Beaver (time permitting)
JAN
JAN
FEB-MAR
MAR-APR
MAY
Step Up To Writing Program
6 Traits of Writing Program
Narrative Writing Program
This is a continuation of the writing program and skills learned in
previous grades.
Writing skills to include:
 Narrative, expository, descriptive, and persuasive writing
including reports, summaries, letters, research essays,
essays to explain a process, stories, and poems
 Synthesize material from several sources, prepare a
bibliography
Sayings and Phrases
Grammar
Skills
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to include:
Subject/predicate; complete sentence
Identify fragment and run-on sentences
Subject/verb; identification and agreement
Identify/use 8 parts of speech
Direct/indirect objects
Colon before a list and commas with appositive (in addition
to punctuation skills learned in previous grades)
 Punctuation for books, movies, plays, magazines, stories,
etc.
Spelling/Vocab.
Words to include:
 Treasures Spelling lists
 Sitton High Frequency Words list
 Curriculum Words
 Prefixes/suffixes (as described in CK sequence)