Core
Knowledge
Literacy
Phonics,
Grammar
and Writing
Singapore
Math
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
Poetry
Sherlock Holmes
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Poetic Devices
Figurative Language
Six Traits: Ideas
Gathering information
Documenting Resources
Grammar
Action / Auxiliary verbs
Fractions
add, sub, multiply, divide
like fractions
unlike fractions
Mixed Numbers
Core
Knowledge
Science
Core
Knowledge
History and
Geography
Chemistry
Atoms
Compounds
World Geography
maps and globes
lakes of the world
Meso-America
geography
civilizations
Selected short stories
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Six Traits: Organization
Coherent paragraphs
Galileo biography
Grammar
articles
adverbs
Multiplication
whole numbers
decimals
Division
whole numbers
decimals
Chemistry
Elements
Physical change
Biography
Percy Lavon Julian
Renaissance
Revival of Greece & Rome
People and places
by William Shakespeare
Six Traits: Word Choice
descriptions
Grammar
subject/verb agreement
conjunctions / interjections
Order of Operations
Place Value
millions to millionths
Estimation
rounding (decimals & whole)
Classifying Living Things
Kingdom, phylum, class,
order, family, genus, species
Biography
Carl Linnaeus
last edited on 8/25/16
Reformation
Revival of Greece & Rome
People and places
Illustrating points
providing relevant examples
Fractions
as percentages
Percentages
as decimals
as fractions
European Exploration
People and places
England
The Golden Age
English Revolution
Glorious Revolution
JANUARY
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson
Burnett
Six Traits: Conventions
colons
commas
Graphing
Patterns
Mean, Median, Mode
Coordinate Graphing
Ordered pairs
Cells
Structure
FEBRUARY
The Secret Garden
con't
The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Prefixes
Suffixes
Grammar
Pronouns and antecedents
Geometry
Classify Shapes
Nets
Plants
Reproduction
MARCH
APRIL
MAY & JUNE
The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer
con't
Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
Myths / Legends / Tales
Excerpts from Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Six Traits: Voice
Defining a main idea
Keeping to a main idea
Understanding audience
Sentences
fragments
run-ons
Six Traits: Fluency
story lines
Geometry
Triangles
Volume and area of
triangles
Algebra
variables
inequalities
Ratio
Comparing numbers
Math extension
and review
Plants
con't
Life Cycles
Organisms development
Human Body
Endocrine System
Westward Expansion
before the Civil War
Civil War
Causes, people, events
Civil War
US Geography
states and capitals
Biography
Ernest Just
Russia
Geography
History and Culture
Feudal Japan
Geography
History and Culture
Feudal Japan
Geography
History and Culture
Important battles and people
Reconstruction
Native Americans
Culture,Life,Politics,Conflicts