Course Number1111 | Course Title222 |
5010010: | English for Speakers of Other Languages-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022 (course terminated)) |
5010030: | Functional Basic Skills in Communications-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current)) |
5010046: | Language Arts - Grade Five (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current)) |
7710016: | Access Language Arts - Grade 5 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
5010105: | Introduction to Debate Grade 5 (Specifically in versions: 2020 - 2022, 2022 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current)) |
Name | Description |
Superhero Narratives | Students create narratives inspired by comic strips. The narratives include all elements of the comic strip including the beginning, rising action, climax, falling action, and ending. Students provide feedback to one another using a rubric to improve their writing. They will also discuss how the setting, characters, characterization, and conflict contribute to the plot of the narrative. |
Novel Study-Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan | After reading the novel Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan, students will analyze the perspective of Esperanza while looking at important characterization features and other parts of the plot development. Students will create a narrative writing piece from the perspective of Esperanza based on the characterization features discussed. |
A "Revolutionary" Approach to Learning History | Students will research causes leading up to the Revolutionary War and their specific effects. They will use various informational text resources to research a particular central event during this time period and place key points into a cause and effect graphic organizer. Working in small groups, they will compose a reader's theatre script depicting what they gathered in their research. They will rehearse and present their reader's theatre to their classmates. |
Informational Texts: Analyzing Relationships and Perspectives Across Multiple Texts | This lesson is an instructional routine for informational text in which teachers provide guided practice and students practice comparing perspectives from multiple texts. |
Poetry Parade | Fluency is developed as students read, reread and memorize poems. Students will present poems to the class. |