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Curriculum Map – Ware Public Schools – English Language Arts: Grade 5 Preliminary Edition – August 2013 Curriculum Map – Ware Public Schools – English Language Arts: Grade 5 Playing with Words Unit 1 - Number of Weeks: 4 – September Essential Question: How Why (and how) do we play with language? Terminology: biography, dialogue, homonym, homophone, idiom/cliché, literal and figurative, language, poetic devices: rhyme scheme, meter, stanza, metaphors, similes, alliteration, onomatopoeia, spoonerism, theme (and variation) Focus Suggested Works/Resources Sample Activities and Assessment Standards Lexile Framework for (E) indicates a CCSS exemplar text (AD) Adult Directed Reading (EA) indicates a text from a writer with other works (IG) Illustrated Glossary http://lexile.com/fab/ identified as exemplar (NC) Non-Conforming RL.5.2: Determine a ANCHOR TEXTS MCAS ELA Test Scores theme of a story, The King Who Rained (Fred Gwynne) GRADE District Test Scores drama, or poem from (AD580) Pretest/s details in the text, Scholastic Book of Idioms Class participation & contributions to group including how discussion characters in a story LITERARY TEXTS Self-reflection/evaluation or drama respond to Stories (Read Aloud) Exit Cards challenges or how the The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster and Grammar Usage - explain what speaker in a poem Jules Feiffer) (1000L) conjunctions are and combine 3 sentences reflects upon a topic; Stories into one summarize a text. The Disappearing Alphabet (Richard Wilbur Short research report/s and David Diaz) Narrative writing with a teacher/student RI.5.1: Quote Baseball Saved Us (Ken Mochizuki) AD 550L designed rubric accurately from a text My Teacher Likes to Say (Denise Brennan- when explaining what Nelson) Opinion Essay writing with a teacher/student the text says explicitly In a Pickle and Other Funny Idioms or Mad designed rubric and when drawing as a Wet Hen! And Other Funny Idioms “Why (and how) do we play with language?” inferences from the (Marvin Terban) text. What Are You Figuring Now? A Story of Vocabulary quizzes Benjamin Banneker (Creative Minds RI.5.4: Determine the Comprehension quizzes Biography) (Jeri Ferris) (910L) Spelling quizzes Ware Public Schools Common Core Curriculum, ELA-Grade 5 adopted August 2012 from Common Core, Inc.; Jossey-Bass; San Francisco, CA, 2012 1 Preliminary Edition – August 2013 Focus Suggested Works/Resources Sample Activities and Assessment Standards meaning of general A Picture Book of George Washington Carver Assessment of spelling in writing academic and domain- (Picture Book Biography) (David Adler and Teacher observation & monitoring of skills specific words and Dan Brown) (830L) taught phrases in a text Frindle (Andrew Clements) (830L) Accelerated Reader quizzes relevant to a grade 5 What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? (Jean Fritz) Teacher made worksheets/assessments topic or subject area. (830L) Homework Poems (Read Aloud) RF.5.3: Know and The Tree is Older than You Are: A Bilingual RESEARCH AND apply grade-level Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico INFORMATIVE/EXPLANATORY WRITING phonics and word with Paintings by Mexican Artists (Naomi Student’s design plan to be used during research analysis skills in Shihab Nye) involving 2 sources of information decoding words. Poems “Casey at the Bat” (Ernest Lawrence Thayer) Note-taking RF.5.3(a): Use (E) combined knowledge Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (Paul RESEARCH/BIO-POEM of all letter-sound Fleischman and Eric Beddows) Select the most relevant and useful information for correspondences, “The Echoing Green” (William Blake) a chart in your journal that includes the following syllabication patterns, (E) open-ended research questions: and morphology (e.g., “Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf” (Roald Name of the person roots and affixes) to Where he/she lived read accurately Dahl) (E) When he/she lived unfamiliar multisyllabic Youtube: “Little Red Riding Hood and the What did he/she do that made him/her words in context and Wolf” (Roald Dahl) famous? out of context. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq161aoLQ1A&fe ature=fvwrel What are some additional facts you found W.5.7: Conduct short interesting? research projects that “Eletelephony” (Laura Richards) Design a plan for your informational search. After use several sources to “My Shadow” (Robert Louis Stevenson) research is finished, create a bio-poem based on build knowledge Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook (Shel Silverstein) the person you chose. Make sure you can explain through investigation Carver: A Life in Poems (Marilyn Nelson) why you chose the words you put into the bio- of different aspects of poem, and create a digital presentation for both. a topic. INFORMATIONAL TEXTS RESEARCH AND Biographies INFORMATIVE/EXPLANATORY WRITING SL.5.1: Engage Tales of Famous Americans (Peter and Keep track of information in categories similar to effectively in a range Connie Roop) (740L) those in your journal (activity above). Select the of collaborative Who Was Ben Franklin? (Dennis Brindell most relevant and useful information gathered and discussions (one-on- Fradin) make a plan for presenting your findings in a short Ware Public Schools Common Core Curriculum, ELA-Grade 5 adopted August 2012 from Common Core, Inc.; Jossey-Bass; San Francisco, CA, 2012 2 Preliminary Edition – August 2013 Focus Suggested Works/Resources Sample Activities and Assessment Standards one, in groups, and Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? (Margaret report that is logically ordered and cites at least two teacher-led) on grade Frith, John O’Brien, and Nancy Harrison) sources of information. Edit your writing for correct 5 topics and texts, (790L) use of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. building on others’ Who Was Albert Einstein? (Jess M. Brallier & Publish your report and insert a picture of the ideas and expressing Robert Andrew Parker) person (on the web). their own clearly. Who Was Jackie Robinson? (Gail Herman, Nancy Harrison, and John O’Brien) (670L) CLASS DISCUSSION SL.5.1(a): Come to Who Was William Shakespeare? (Celeste “How are the scientists and inventors that you have discussions prepared, Mannis) read about similar? How are they different? How having read or studied Who Was Dr. Seuss? (Janet Pascal and and why do scientists and inventors “play”? required material; Nancy Harrison) (820L) explicitly draw on that Who Was Pablo Picasso? (True Kelley) Compare and contrast the presentation of a topic in preparation and other (700L) two different formats, such as baseball in “Casey at information known Who Was Louis Armstrong? (Yona Zeblis the Bat” to We Are the Ship: the Story of the Negro about the topic to McDonough, John O’Brien, and Nancy League Baseball, drawing on specific details from explore ideas under Harrison) (780L) the text. discussion. Who Was Steve Jobs? (Pam Pollack, Meg POETIC DEVICES Belviso, John O'Brien and Nancy Harrison) SL.5.1(b): Follow Find examples of similes, metaphors, alliteration, (660L) agreed-upon rules for and onomatopoeia in poems from this unit, and In Their Own Words: Thomas Edison discussions and carry mark them with coded sticky notes. Create a T- (George Sullivan) (670L) out assigned roles. chart in your journal that lists the poetic devices Alexander Graham Bell: An Inventive Life and includes examples of each. Write your own L.5.5: Demonstrate (Snapshots: Images of People and Places in poem that uses at least two of the devices found. understanding of History) (Elizabeth MacLeod) (890L) figurative language, Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who NARRATIVE WRITING word relationships, Changed the World (Cynthia Chin-Lee, Write a humorous story or poem in which you and nuances in word Megan Halsey, and Sean Addy) incorporate figurative language or idioms learned. meanings. The World at His Fingertips: A Story about Joyful Noise: Memorize and recite a poem with a Louis Braille (Creative Minds Biographies) classmate. (Barbara O’Connor and Rochelle Draper) (1010L) Create a class book John Muir: Young Naturalist (Childhood of Illustrate the literal and figurative meaning of an Famous Americans) (Montrew Dunham) idiom – to be compiled into a class book. (890L) Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology (Women VOCABULARY AND WORD STUDY of Our Time) (Kathleen V. Kudlinski) (770L) Keep an index card file of words and phrases Ware Public Schools Common Core Curriculum, ELA-Grade 5 adopted August 2012 from Common Core, Inc.; Jossey-Bass; San Francisco, CA, 2012 3 Preliminary Edition – August 2013 Focus Suggested Works/Resources Sample Activities and Assessment Standards We Are the Ship: the Story of Negro League learned from the stories and poems in this unit, Baseball (Kadir Nelson) (E) esp. homonyms and homophones. (metaphor) Sort the words by prefix, suffix, root words, Meet the Authors and Illustrators Volume 1: meaning, spelling feature, etc. (NOTE: this is an 60 Creators of Favorite Children’s Books Talk ongoing activity for the year) About Their Work (Gr. K-6) (Deborah Kovacs and James Preller) MUSICAL APPRECIATION Visual and Performing Artists (Women in Listen to the Young Person’s Guide to the Profile) (Shaun Hunter) Orchestra as a class. Discuss how the ideas of Musicians (Women in Profile) (Leslie “theme and variations” are expressed through Strudwick) music. Discuss the similarities and differences in writing. REFERENCE Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms (Revised) Do visual artists “play” with materials the way (Marvin Terban) other artists do? Examine the works of Joseph Cornell. ART, MUSIC, and MEDIA What do you notice about his assemblages? What Art types of objects did he use? Are Cornell’s boxes Joseph Cornell visual
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