Literacy

 

Exploring Literary Classics 

​Big Ideas and Guiding Questions:

• How do writers capture a reader's imagination?

• What can we learn from reading literary classics

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​Unit 1: Analyzing Author's Craft: Character Development in Peter Pan​

• Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Answering Questions about a Literary Text

  • In this assessment, students read a new chapter of Peter Pan and answer text dependent questions to show understanding of vocabulary and the events in the story.

• End of Unit 1 Assessment: Analyzing Characters in Peter Pan

  • In this assessment, students read a new chapter of Peter Pan and answer text dependent questions to show understanding of the main characters in the story.

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​Unit 2: Writing Grounded in Evidence: An Opinion of Peter Pan

• Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Comparing Two Peter Pan Stories

  • In this assessment, students recall and recount the plot of Peter Pan by identifying events from the story. Students will also compare two Peter Pan stories and show their understanding of the central message by answering questions.

• End of Unit 2 Assessment: Revising a Book Review and Participating in a Text-Based Discussion

  • In this assessment, students orally support an opinion based on evidence from the text when discussing whether they would recommend Peter Pan to a friend. Students will also revise their book review using teacher feedback. 

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​Unit 3: Reading Like a Writer: Revising Scenes from Peter Pan

• Mid-Unit 3 Assessment: Revising a Scene from Peter Pan

  • In this assessment, students answer selected response questions to show their understanding of some of the conventions of standard English and revise a scene from Peter Pan.

• End of Unit 3 Assessment: Reading Aloud a New Text for Fluency

  • In this assessment, students read aloud a new excerpt and are assessed on their fluency and accuracy and orally summarize the passage to show basic comprehension of the excerpt. 

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Module Performance Task: Presenting a Revised Scene from Peter Pan

• Students will read aloud their revised scene from Peter Pan from Unit 3 while using prompt cards for their oral presentation to explain the changes they made and their reasons for making those changes. 

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Mathematics

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Unit 6: Applying the Operations to Area & Perimeter​

Students will be able to...

• Find the area of a rectangle by tilting without gaps or overlaps.

• Multiply side lengths to determine the area of rectangles when problem solving.

• Illustrate and explain that the area of a rectangle can be determined by partitioning. 

• Use the sum of two smaller rectangles to find the area of a larger rectangle.

• Find the unknown side lengths given the perimeter of the polygon.

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Unit 7: Understanding Fractions as Parts of a Whole

Students will be able to...

• Represent and identify unit fractions using area and length models.

• Explain that a unit fraction is one part of the whole.

• Use number lines to represent fractions as parts of a whole.

• Use area and length models to represent fractions as parts of a whole.

• Compare two fractions with the same numerator or same denominator by reasoning about their size using area and length models, and using the >, <, and = symbols.

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Science

Matter: Structure, Properties, and Change

 

Students will be able to...

• Compare the structure and properties of the states of matter before they undergo a change.

• Carry out an investigation to show that air has mass and takes up space.

• Construct an explanation of how the structure and properties of the states of matter can change.

• Observe, then summarize changes that occur to the properties of matter when heat is applied.

• Carry out an investigation and observe that heat energy can be transferred from a warm object to cooler one at a distance and the cooler one gets warmer.

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Force & Motion: Direction and Speed

​Students will be able to...

• Describe motion.

• Explain that forces (pushes and pulls) cause objects to move.

• Carry out an investigation to show how rubbing objects together (friction) results in the release of heat energy.

• Investigate objects moving at different speeds and directions.

• Test forces acting an object to cause them to move at different speeds and/or directions over the same distance.

• Communicate that friction might prevent motion from starting or it might oppose motion in progress, and that it also creates heat energy.

• Compare speeds of objects that travel the same distance in different amounts of time.

• Identify that gravity is a force (pull) that affects motion of objects on or near Earth.