Mrs.

Potter's 5th Grade Curriculum Map 2015-2016

Language Arts

Reading

August

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

Personal Narratives &

Early American
Poetry; Read-aloud:
Civilizations; Read"Sherlock Holmes"
aloud: "Wonder"

Historical Fiction:
The Reformation
Contemporary
Shakespeare's, "A
Historical Fiction:
Adventures of
The Renaissance & & Shakespeare's,
Fiction: The House
Midsummer Night's
Adventures of Don
Don Quixote &
The Reformation;
"A Midsummer
on Mango Street;
Dream" & Native
Quixote; Read-aloud: The Renaissance; Read-aloud: "Tom Night's Dream";
Read-aloud:
Americans; Read"Secret Garden"
Read-aloud:
Sawyer"
Read-aloud:
"Sherlock Holmes"
aloud: "Little Women"
"Secret Garden"
"Tom Sawyer"

"Jabberwocky" & "The

Arrow and the Song"

"A Bird Came Down

the Walk" & "The
Road Not Taken"

Core
Knowledge
Language Arts
Readers or
Novels

Personal
Nattatives;
Read-aloud:
"Wonder"

Core Poems

Intro to Poetry:
"The Wise Old
Owl"

Core Sayings

Bite the hand

Chip on your shoulder;
that feeds you;
Ear crow; Eleventh
Count your blessings;
Catch forty
hour; A watched pot
Well begun is half
winks; What will
never boils
done
be will be

"The Tiger" & "Some

Opposites"

Eureka!; Every
cloud has a silver
lining; Vice versa

"Poison Tree" & "The

Snow Storm"

"Narcissa" & "The

Eagle"

Kill two birds with

Few and far between;
one stone; Lock,
The grass is always
stock, and barrel;
greener on the other
Tom, Dick, and
side of the hill
Harry

"I Too" & "Barbara

Frietchie"

Make a mountain
out of a molehill; A
miss is as good as
a mile; Time heals
all wounds

"O Captain! O
Captain!" &
"Battle Hymn of
the Republic"

"I Like to See it Lap

the Miles"

May

Native
Americans;
Read-aloud:
"Little Women"

"Casey at the
Bat"

It's never too late A penny saved is a

Steal his/her
to mend; Out of penny earned; Read
thunder; Take the
the frying pan between the lines; Till
bull by the horns
and into the fire the cows come home

Grammar

Grammar
Launch

Grammar Launch

Unit 1: Sentences

Unit 2: Nouns & Unit

3: Verbs

Unit 3: Verbs

Unit 4: Adjectives,
Adverbs,
Conjunctions, and
Prepositions

Unit 5: Pronouns

Unit 6:
Capitalization,
Punctuation, and
Spelling

Grammar Voyage:
Sentence Analysis

Grammar
Voyage:
Sentence
Analysis

Writing with
Structure and
Style

I. Note Making
and Outlines

I & II: Note Making and

Outlines &
Summarizing from
Notes

III: Summarizing
Narrartive Stories

IV: Summarizing a
Reference

V: Writing from
Pictures

V: Writing from
Pictures

VI: Research
Reports

VII: Creative
Writing

VIII: Formal Essay

IX: Formal
Critiques

Saxon Math

Section 1

Sections 1 & 2

Sections 3 & 4

Sections 4 & 5

Sections 5 & 6

Sections 6 & 7

Sections 7 & 8

Sections 8 & 9

Sections 9 & 10

Sections 11& 12

History

England: Golden
Age to Glorious
Revolution

England: Golden Age to the

Glorious Revolution & The
Age of Exploration

The Age of
Exploration

Early Russia: Growth

and Expansion &
Feudal Japan

Feudal Japan &

Westward Expansion
Before the Civil War

Westward Expansion
After the Civil War &
Economics

Economics

Geography of the
Spice Trades

Geography of
Russia & Japan

Geography of Japan
& Early U.S.
Geography

Classifying Living
Things & Cell
Structures and
Processes

Cells & Plants:

Structures and
Processes

Life Cycles and

Reproduction

Chemistry: Matter
and Change

Science
Biographies

Overnight at Denver
Museum of Nature
and Science

Mini-Society

Geography

Science

Field Trips & Special

Events

Geography of Central and

World
South America &
Lakes/Latitue & Geography of the Spice
Longitude
Trades

The Scientific
Method

Classifying Living
Things

Internation Exhibition
of Sherlock Holmes
Field Trip

The Civil War:

Westward Expansion
The Civil War &
Before the Civil War: Causes, Conflicts, and Westward Expansion
The Civil War
After
the Civil War
Consequences

U.S. Geography

Life Cycles & The

Human Body:
Endocrine System

Science Fair

The Human Body: Chemistry: Matter

Endocrine System
and Change
Renaissance
Festival