Fifth Grade Curriculum

Social Studies

Math
Tentative Curriculum & Movies Suggestions 
For a Crash Course to Refresh Your (or your child's) Memory

Fall
Geography and Native Americans
1492: Conquest of Paradise
A New World

The 13 Colonies 
The Crucible
The Last of the Mohicans 
The Gangs of New York

Winter
The American Revolution
The Crossing
The Patriot
John Adams (HBO Series)
The Madness of King George

The Constitution 
John Adams (HBO Series)

Spring
The Civil War 
Chapters 19, 20, 21, & 22
March 19 - April 20
Glory
Gone with the Wind
Amistad
Gettysburg
The Journey of August King



Fall
Multiplication and Division Review
-Showing Division as fractions
-Division with remainder shown as fraction
-Showing Multiplication with parentheses

Decimals with all Four Operations

Prime Numbers
Prime Factorization

Winter
Fractions (connecting to concepts previously taught)
-Concepts of Parts of a Whole, Parts of a Group, Parts of a Segment
-Mixed Numbers
-Improper Fractions
-Adding and Subtracting with like and unlike Denominators
-Least Common Multiple
-Greatest Common Factor
-Comparing Fractions
-Equivalent Fractions
-Simplifying Fractions

English

Reading
-Finding the Problem in a Text
-Finding Main Idea in a Text
-Finding the Theme in a Text
-Using Details to Support Claims
-Making Connections

Grammar
-Capitalization
-Ending Punctuation
-Verb Tenses
-Parts of Speech 
-Commas
-Quotation Marks

Writing
-Creative Writing
-Story Boarding
-Enticing a Reader
   -Engaging First Sentence
   -Word Choice
   -Clear Problem/Solution
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Paragraph Writing
-Selecting Topic
-Writing Topic Sentence
-Using Details to Support Topic
-Transitional Words
-Concluding Sentence