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Northampton County Schools Fifth Grade Curriculum Map 2012-2013
Subject: ELA
Grade Level: 5th
Unit Title: Renaissance Thinking
Timeframe Needed for Completion: 6 weeks
Grading Period: First Nine Weeks – Second nine weeks
Big Idea/Themes: Reading narrative and informational text helps reveal how inventions changed the world.
Understandings:
 Read and compare information learned from fiction and nonfiction books
 Explain the characteristics of historical fiction.
 Compare and contrast historical fiction stories using those characteristics as a guide.
 Describe the value of primary source documents when studying a historical period.
 Conduct research and develop/present a multimedia presentation that integrates information from more than one source.
 Explain historical context based on information gathered from multiple print or digital sources.
 Define related words and identify their parts of speech.
Language Arts
Essential Questions:
1. Can I read and write with
comprehension?
2. Can I distinguish between primary and
secondary sources?
3. Do I understand and use language
components correctly in speaking and
writing?
4. Can I explain the sequence of events
that led to the Declaration of
Independence?
5. Can I answer a document-based
question with accurate detail?
6. Can I read and write about the impact
of the Revolutionary War?
7. Do I know how to conduct research and
create a multi-media presentation?
8. Do I understand and can I discuss the
purpose of government and the role it
plays in my life?
9. Can I determine the main purpose of
Vocabulary:
Bibliography
Character
Development
Fiction
Nonfiction
paraphrase
primary source documents
cause
effect
compare
contrast
point of view
foreshadowing
inference
infer
Performance Tasks:
1. Compare and contrast various historical narrative
stories and record info. On T-chart.
2. Create a character map.
3. Explain the historical context surrounding an event
based on information from multiple print or digital
sources.
4. Point of view chart about independence by
Patriots and Loyalists.
5. Opinion piece about which side you would follow
in Rev. War.
6. 5 paragraph essay that tells most important things
learned about a topic.
7. Read the book, George vs. George, and create a
diamante poem.
8. Poetry/Art analysis: Paul Revere’s Ride and Grant
Wood painting
9. Read We Were There, Too by Phillip Hoose,
identify main ideas and details, and
compare/contrast biographical stories on their
approaches to similar themes.
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the Preamble?
Can I describe the branches of
government and summarize their
specific functions?
Can I research and report on a patriotic
tradition and explain it’s significance?
Do I know how to read, discuss, and
analyze the significance of
amendments?
Can I discuss the effect that Supreme
Court decisions have on the citizens of
the US?
Reading Foundations
RF.5.4 Read with
sufficient accuracy and
fluency to support
Literature
RL.5.9 Compare and
contrast stories in the
same genre on their
10. Find the parts of speech in a poem or song from
the American Revolutionary War.
11. Poetry Analysis: Yankee Doodle.
12. Conduct research and develop a multi-media
presentation on a leader of the revolutionary War.
Integrate information from several texts.
13. Plot a time line of key events of the War.
14. Discuss how the revolutionary War changed the
way people thought about rights with a “stickynote” discussion.
15. Quote ideas and use inference from primary
documents that were used in the Constitution.
16. Rewrite phrases from the Constitution and present
as a choral reading.
17. Research, write, and present information and then
determine the tradition they believe is most
important and write an opinion piece supporting
their belief.
18. Write an opinion paper on which of the Bill of
Rights is most important.
19. Using an empty box or container, design a package
that represents a product form the time period in
your book. Using index cards, prepare an oral
presentation to share with the class.
20. Research an important inventor from American
history and then present the information learned
in a digital format.
21. Make trading card highlighting one of the
inventions form Mistakes That Worked by
Charlotte Foltz Jones and a card about a child
inventor from The Kid Who Named Pluto by Marc
McCutcheon.
Informational Texts
RI.5.2 Determine two
or more main ideas of
a text and explain how
Speaking/Listening
SL.5.1 Engage
effectively in a range of
collaborative
Writing
W.5.2 Write
informative/explanatory texts
to examine a topic and convey
Language
L.5.1 Demonstrate
command of the
conventions of standard
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comprehension.
RF.5.4(b) read on level
prose and poetry
orally with accuracy,
appropriate rate, and
expression on
successive readings.
approaches to similar
themes and topics
they are supported by
key details;
summarize the text
RI.5.9 Integrate
information from
several texts on the
same topic in order to
write or speak about
the subject
knowledgably.
discussions on grade 5
texts and topics,
building on others’
ideas and expressing
their own ideas clearly.
ideas and information clearly.
English grammar and
usage when writing or
speaking
L.5.1(a) Explain the
function of
conjunctions,
prepositions, and
interjections in general
and their function in
particular sentences
SL.5.1(c) Pose and
respond to specific
questions by making
comments that
contribute to the
discussion and
elaborate on the
remarks of others.
L.5.1(b) Form and use
the perfect verb tenses
SL.5.1 (d) Review the
key ideas expressed
and draw conclusions
in light of information
and knowledge gained
from the discussions.
Social Studies
Revolutionary War, US Government
Skills Addressed in Unit:
Resources:
Cause/effect
Mistakes That Worked by Charlotte Jones
Inferences
Leonardo the Beautiful Dreamer by Robert Byrd
Sequencing
The Usborne Book of Inventors from DaVinci to
Main Idea and Details
Biro by Reid, Walton, and Fara
Point ofView
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Compare/Contrast
The Kid Who Named Pluto by Marc McCutcheon
Twenty Odd Ducks: Why Every Punctuation
Mark Counts!
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: Why Commas Really
Do Make a Difference!
The Girls Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can’t Mange
Withour Apostrophes!
Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal!
Science
Online Resources
http://www.readworks.org/lessons/grades
http://thinnkfinity.org/
http://teachersfirst.com/index.cfm
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/WEB+2.0+Tools
http://dpiwikispaces.org
http://makebeliefscomix.com
http://flashcardmachine.com/
http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.html
http://classtools.net
http://jeopardylabs.com/
http://edu.glogster.com/
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No, David!
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