Students will be reading traditional literature from around the world. They will be learning about important story events, examining how a character responds to challenges, studying the features of literary text, and determining the central idea. They will use the knowledge that they have acquired to help them write their own personal narratives.
Students will compare and contrast the same text in various formats (audio, filmed, staged, etc.) to determine the impact and effectiveness of each. Students will look deeply within one text to identify elements of plot, and analyze how they are related. Students will also work on the diction level to analyze the impact that specific words have on the development of the plot, mood, tone, and theme of each story. Students will continue to create strong arguments about a text(s) and support them with relevant and sufficient evidence.
Students will spend time observing plants and animals to gather evidence that organisms are living systems. They will develop an understanding that plants and animals have external and internal structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior and reproduction. Students use the concept of systems to understand that every animal has internal and external structures that allow it to take in information from the environment in which it lives, process that information, and respond in ways that increase its chances to grow, reproduce, and survive.
Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, economic, political, and cultural factors contributed to a push for westward expansion and more aggressive United States foreign policy. In this unit, students will explore continued conflicts with Native Americans and the effect the Spanish-American war had on the rise of the United States as an imperial power. In addition, students will study Pacific trade and increased United States foreign interactions.
Students explore how energy from the sun is captured and used by plants to survive and to provide food for other living things. They learn how energy from food is used to help animals grow and survive. Students investigate food chains and food webs to learn of the interdependent relationships in ecosystems, how matter cycles, and how energy transfer occurs in an ecosystem.
Students will analyze literary texts to identify and describe literary elements and text features and how they are used to develop the plot of a story. Students will craft their own narrative piece applying their understanding of literary elements and text features to develop their story.
Students will locate and analyze how multiple points of view are developed over the course of a text, and how points of view impact plot or text events. Students will use this knowledge to draft an argument of their own, and will provide key, relevant details to support their claim in writing and discussion.
In this unit, students will study how European exploration led to the colonization of the region that became New York State and how important Colonial New York was during the Revolutionary Period. Students will study how Colonial New York became home to many different peoples, including European immigrants, and free and enslaved Africans and the relationships that existed between colonizing people and the Native Americans. In addition, students will examine the many conflicts between England and the 13 colonies over issues of political and economic rights.
In this unit the students will learn to model composition and decomposition of numbers to 10 using a strategy i.e. actions, objects, drawings, fingers, unifix cubes. They will read and write horizontal and vertical number bonds to represent composition and decomposition stories. They will compare values of numerals between 1 and 10. They will read, write and solve equations using the plus sign, minus sign and equal sign within 10.
Students will compare and contrast the same text in various formats (audio, filmed, staged, etc.) to determine the impact and effectiveness of each. Students will look deeply within one text as well as across texts to identify elements of plot, and analyze how they interact with one another. Students will also work on the diction level to analyze the impact that specific words have on the development of the plot, mood, tone, and theme of each story. Students will respond in multiple formats (verbally, written, project, etc.) to convey their learning of the unit.
