ELA
Module 1A Module 1 focuses on building community by making connections between visual imagery, oral accounts, poetry and written texts of various cultures with a focus on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture. Module 1 also reinforces reading fluency, close text analysis, explanatory paragraph writing, and presenting to peers.
Module 2AStudents learn about what life was like in Colonial America, focusing on how colonists were interdependent on one another. Students read about various colonial trades (such as the wheelwright, the cooper, etc.), with an emphasis on making inferences, summarizing informational texts and conducting basic research
Module 3A Students build knowledge of simple machines and how they affect force, effort, and work. Students read basic background text and perform Readers Theater about simple machines (written for classroom use). They read an extended scientific text, Simple Machines: Forces in Action, focusing on analyzing scientific concepts.
Module 4Students learn about voting rights and responsibilities. They first focus on the women’s suffrage movement and the leadership of New Yorker Susan B. Anthony, reading firsthand and secondhand accounts of her arrest and trial. Then students read The Hope Chest (historical fiction set in the weeks before the passage of the 19th Amendment) examining the theme of leaders and their impact on others.
Module 1A Module 1 focuses on building community by making connections between visual imagery, oral accounts, poetry and written texts of various cultures with a focus on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture. Module 1 also reinforces reading fluency, close text analysis, explanatory paragraph writing, and presenting to peers.
Module 2AStudents learn about what life was like in Colonial America, focusing on how colonists were interdependent on one another. Students read about various colonial trades (such as the wheelwright, the cooper, etc.), with an emphasis on making inferences, summarizing informational texts and conducting basic research
Module 3A Students build knowledge of simple machines and how they affect force, effort, and work. Students read basic background text and perform Readers Theater about simple machines (written for classroom use). They read an extended scientific text, Simple Machines: Forces in Action, focusing on analyzing scientific concepts.
Module 4Students learn about voting rights and responsibilities. They first focus on the women’s suffrage movement and the leadership of New Yorker Susan B. Anthony, reading firsthand and secondhand accounts of her arrest and trial. Then students read The Hope Chest (historical fiction set in the weeks before the passage of the 19th Amendment) examining the theme of leaders and their impact on others.