1. E4/5 Trimester 1 Curriculum Map
English Language Arts
Common Core Standards Based
Writer’s Workshop
Narratives: Students are starting their writing experience by constructing personal narratives.
Informational/Expository: E4/5 students will be writing texts with an introduction that includes a thesis statement (main idea), a body, and a conclusion. The body will include supportive details in the form of quotes and explanations (This includes accuracy in punctuation and in MLA citations.). Students will apply academic language and transition words and phrases.
Opinion: The students will compose papers in which they state claims, provide reasons, cite evidence, anticipate a counterclaim, and end with conclusions. This unit will coincide with their learning of formal debate procedures and strategies.
Reader’s Workshop
Reader’s Theater: This will include the Roundtable Reading of literature, plays, and poetry, as well as informational and argumentative texts. E4/5 students will take notes by annotating in the margins and by taking formal notes using Cornell Notes procedures.
Close Reading: The students will identify the purposes for reading different text structures and will use strategies to increase comprehension. For example, when identifying a text as informational or argumentative, they will know to look for central ideas and claims, respectively. With stories, dramas, and poems, they will look for themes and lessons as well as character responses to conflicts and character points of view.
Spelling
4th Grade Text: Words Their Way: Derivational Relations
5th Grade Text: Words Their Way: Derivational Relations and Spelling Connections: Zaner Blosser.
Books we will be reading:
Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets by Patricia Clark Smith
Guided Reading for Small Groups
Mathematics
Saxon Math & Common Core Standards Based
4th Grade
Module 1.
The students will be focusing on place value, rounding, and algorithms for addition and subtraction.
Module 2.
E4 will be focusing on unit conversions in the metric system, and they will solve multi-step word problems involving measurements and the four operations.
Module 3.
Before the end of T1, we will begin a unit on multi-digit multiplication and division using area models and standard algorithms.
5th Grade
Module 1: E5 will focus on place value comprehension that includes working with decimal fractions and exponents. It will also include addition, subtraction, and multiplication of decimals as well as rounding decimals.
Module 2: Students will calculate multi-digit whole number and decimal fraction operations which will include applying the order of operations in their problem solving
Module 3: E5 will practice addition and subtraction of fractions which will include adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators.
Science
Next Generation Science Standards
Earth Science
E4/5 will study the Earth’s Four Spheres and how they interact with a focus on the geosphere’s impact on humans and vice versa.
Scientific Method

2. California State Standards Based
Social Studies
California State Standards Based
Historical Thinking
E 4/5 students will do the following:
Study chronological timelines
Analyze changes over time and the causes of change
Read maps and globes
Explore primary and secondary sources
Examine historical documents and evaluate point of view
Summarize key events and multiple causes, and create reports about those events
U.S History:
E4/5 Students will learn about the following:
Native American Tribes prior to European interactions, cooperation and conflict among the tribes, and the effects of European explorations and colonization
European explorers and the colonial era with a particular focus on (1) the Jamestown and the Pilgrim and Puritan colonies, (2) European interactions with local tribes with a focus on King Phillip’s War, (3) understanding the regional differences and common concerns among the Thirteen Colonies that led up to the French and Indian Wars and the American Revolution.
West African culture, the experience of abduction from Africa, and African American culture in the Thirteen Colonies and early United States.
Meanwhile, E/4 students will memorize the 50 capitals and states and become familiar with the geography of the eastern U.S. General geography of the whole U.S. will be studied in more detail in T2 and T3.
Field Trips
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