WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY

Unit Goal:  Students read literary and informational texts to understand how members of a culture meld into communities while trying to maintain cultural identity and honor their ancestors. Students express their understanding of these ideas by explaining how the ideas are expressed and supported through the texts and by experiencing and documenting their own development of a classroom community.

Text:     

 Anchor Text:  Shutting Out the Sky by Deborah Hopkinson, various other excerpts.

Skills: 

Main Idea and Supporting Details

Summarizing

Poetry analysis

Quoting Accurately from text

Compare & Contrast                Expository & Opinion Writing

Assessments:  

Comprehension Cold Read Tests - weekly

Essay Writing - One each 9 weeks

Group/Class Participation - 100 Point grade each 9 weeks

Extra Credit Opportunity: We are excited to have AR back in 5th grade. Up to 20 extra credit points are available each 9 weeks for every AR point a student earns.