CURRENT CURRICULUM
ELA Unit 1 "Introduction to Stories"
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic.
Summarize the text.
Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense and aspect.
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using standard algorithm or other strategies.
Fluently divide using place value strategies, properties of operations, and/or relationship between multiplication and division.
Evaluate expressions with parentheses, brackets, or braces.
Write and interpret numerical expressions.
Recognize digits in a number as having a value of 10 times more than the place to it’s right or 1/10 the value of the place to it’s left.
Identify surface features as being caused by constructive and/or destructive processes
Use models to show how changes in surface features were caused by constructive/destructive processes
Investigate role of technology to limit and/or predict the impact of constructive & destructive processes
Social Studies Unit 1 Connecting Themes
Beliefs and Ideals
Conflict and Change
Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
Location
Movement and Migration
Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Scarcity
