Escuela Ernestina Bracero Perez

Course Outline
Course Title:

English

Teacher:

Mrs. Liz Y. Santiago

Grade:

5th

Standards: Listening - Speaking Skills, Reading Skills, and Writing Skills

Course Description:
The Ernestina Bracero Perez fifth grade English course aims to capture students interest in
grammar usage, techniques and mechanics as well as the enjoinment and understanding of
literature. The integration of the course skills will help develop his/her capacities to interact
effectively in a verbal and non-verbal environment.

Justification
The oral and written communication is a fundamental and a compelling tool to develop a
skilled student for the future. He or she will use these tools to help enable the ability in
applying language skills in an integrated form, to solve problems in sense of personal
fulfillment and capable of working to change society in a responsible way. Student will
gain the capacity of being critical thinkers respecting other peoples opinions and beliefs.

Objectives
Student will be able to use and understand grammar usage and its mechanics to interpret
literary elements while acquiring the necessary vocabulary and skills to master listening
and oral communication.
Learn to use and understand new words by using the dictionary
Communicate effectively in small informal group activities
Enhance his/her oral communication by doing oral presentations about a
specific theme intergrading media and technology
Answer questions in complete thought
Communicate personal opinions of a topic or theme
Identify, classify and spell plural forms of nouns
Name, identify, and classify pronouns and its antecedents in a sentence
Identify, locate, select, classify and use verbs in their tense
Identify and use prepositions, and prepositional phrases
Identify adjectives
Identify and use conjunctions

 Locate adverbs
Identify and use interjections
Recognize complete and simple subject and predicates
Distinguish difference between a sentence and sentence fragment
Write effective sentences
Take dictations of words
Distinguish, compare and contrast characters and characters traits
Describe the setting in a story
Recognize main ideas
Mention details
Predict outcome
Recall sequence of events
Distinguish between fact or opinion
Develop a thesis statement
Provide critical thoughts
Respect other students thought
Show tolerance toward another person

Criteria of Evaluation
In order to better understand and help my student in their strengths and weakness, I will use
different methods of evaluation. Even though there are 15 grades already set, there are
going to be approximately 5 other grades that I will use to help them according to their
progress.

Oral presentations
Tests
Assignments
Class work
Special Projects
Self evaluation
Quizzes

Grade Criteria:
A = 90% - 100%
B = 80% - 89%
C = 70% - 79%
D = 60% - 69%
F = under 59%

English Class Outline

A. Nouns
Common & Proper
Singular and Plural

The Emperors New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen

Test and Project

B. Pronouns
Subject
Object
Possessive
Lost in a Crowd Listening Activity
From Tiger to Anansi by Philip M. Sherlock
Test
C. Verbs (3 weeks)
Present
Past
Future
Mr. Feldman, the Rookie Baseball Fan by Johanna Hurwitz
Test and Oral report
D. Sentences
Simple subject
Complete subject
Simple predicate
Complete predicate
Kind of sentences
1. declarative
2. interrogative
3. imperative
4. exclamatory
Sentence fragments
Nice to Meet You Listening Activity
The Streets Are Free by Kurusa
Test
E. Prepositions
Prepositional phrase
Object of prepositions
The Nazca Lines: Beautiful Drawings for the Gods by Juan Carlos Quinonez
Test and Oral Report
F. Adjectives
Descriptive paragraph
Phone Message Listening Activity
How to Eat a Guava by Esmeralda Santiago
Test

Close Open Questions

Narrative paragraph
The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg
Test and Oral Report

Adverbs
Telephone Recording Listening Activity
Cendrillon by Robert D. San Souci
Test

G. Interjections
Heat Wave by Helen Ketteman
Test and Oral Report
H. Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Antonyms
Travel on sky Airlines Listening Activity
Real Life Reader Biography Gloria Estefan by Sue Boulais
Test

Reference and Resources

Houghton Mifflin Expeditions, Boston, Morris Plains, NJ

Other English books
Internet
Newspaper
Magazines

NOTE: This outline is subject to change due to students progress, weather or any other
unplanned circumstances.