Unit 1 - Government in Action
Essential Question: How can government influence the way we live?
Essential Question: How can government influence the way we live?
Unit 1 Spelling and Grammar Focus
- Unit 1 Week 1: Spelling Skill: Long a and short a
- Grammar Skill: Capitalization
- Unit 1 Week 2: Spelling Skill: Long e and short e
- Grammar Skill: Capitalize proper nouns and punctuate quotations
- Unit 1 Week 3: Spelling Skill: Long o and short o
- Grammar Skill: Combine sentences and punctuate dialouge
Unit 2 - Characters' Actions and Reactions
Essential Question: How do we reveal ourselves to others?
Essential Question: How do we reveal ourselves to others?
Unit 3 - Observing Nature
Essential Question: How do we respond to nature?
Essential Question: How do we respond to nature?
Unit 4 - Understanding Different Points of View
Essential Question: What do we learn when we look at the world through the eyes of others?
Essential Question: What do we learn when we look at the world through the eyes of others?
Unit 4 Spelling and Grammar Focus
- Unit 4 Week 1: Compound Words and Relative Adverbs and Punctuate Dialogue
- Unit 4 Week 2: Consonant - le Syllables and Relative Pronouns and Punctuate Quotations
- Unit 4 Week 3: Vowel - Consonant - e Syllables and Progressive Verb Tenses and Frequently Confused Words
Unit 5 - Technology for a Green Future
Essential Question How do we make decisions about developing new technology?
Essential Question How do we make decisions about developing new technology?
Unit 5 Spelling and Grammar Focus
- Unit 5 Week 1: Hard and Soft c,g and Compound Sentences with Coordinating Conjunctions and Adjective Order
- Unit 5 Week 2: r Controlled Vowels and Modal Auxiliaries and Compound Sentences with Coordinating Conjunctions
- Unit 5 Week 3: r Controlled Vowels and Prepositional Phrases and Compound Sentences with Coordinating Conjunctions
Unit 7 - Developing a Nation
Essential Question: How do communities evolve?
Unit 7 Spelling and Grammar Focus
- Unit 7 Week 1: Spelling skill: /ou/ and /oi/
- Grammar skills: Puncuation for effect and prepositional phrases
- Unit 7 Week 2: Spelling skill: Prefixes trans-, pro-, sub-, super-, inter-,
- Grammar skills: Precise language and complete sentences.
- Unit 7 Week 3: Spelling skill: Homophones
- Grammar skills Correct run-ons and frequently confused words
Unit 8 - Earth Changes
Essential Question: How do Earth's natural processess impact our lives?
Unit 8 Spelling and Grammar Focus
- Unit 8 Week 1: Spelling skill: Negative Prefixes de-, un-, in-, im-, dis-,
- Grammar skills: Progressive verb tenses and punctuate dialogue
- Unit 8 Week 2: Spelling skill: Greek and Latin Roots geo, archae, rupt
- Grammar skills: Interrogative Pronouns and Relative Pronouns and Correct Run-Ons
- Unit 8 Week 3: Spelling skill: Vowel /o/
- Grammar skill: Order Adjectives