{"id":417,"date":"2014-02-22T03:51:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T10:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/?page_id=417"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:53:06","slug":"fifth-grade-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.stpetercatholicschool.com\/newsite\/curriculum\/fifth-grade-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Grade Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>ENGLISH\/LANGUAGE ARTS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Reading<\/i><\/b><b><i><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read grade level text aloud , independently with correct pace and expression.<\/li>\n<li>Learn and use new vocabulary through listening, discussion or reading.<\/li>\n<li>Use a thesaurus to determine related words and concepts.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to, read and discuss a wide variety of narrative and informational text.<\/li>\n<li>Find information in specialized material (examples: online sources, magazines, catalogs).<\/li>\n<li>Identify key facts and information on a topic after reading several articles or selections.<\/li>\n<li>Make and confirm predictions about a text.<\/li>\n<li>Distinguish between cause-and-effect and between fact and opinion in an expository text.<\/li>\n<li>Read, listen and respond to a wide variety of literature from a wide variety of cultures and time periods.<\/li>\n<li>Use knowledge of the setting and characters to interpret the character\u2019s actions.<\/li>\n<li>Define figurative language.<\/li>\n<li>Understand an author\u2019s purpose.<\/li>\n<li>Identify and give examples of the elements of fiction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Writing<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand and use the writing process (pre-write, draft,&nbsp;revise, edit and publish).<\/li>\n<li>Write essays and stories across the curriculum that are well organized, supported by details and descriptive.<\/li>\n<li>Write texts of different modes (narrative, expository, persuasive) and forms (journals, essays, short stories, poems, etc.) &nbsp;identify and write to audience and purpose.<\/li>\n<li>Use correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and penmanship across the curriculum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Listening &amp; Speaking<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deliver an oral message while demonstrating control of eye-contact, volume, rate and expression while using oral, visual and multi-media forms that are appropriate to audience and purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>ESSENTIAL LITERACIES<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Managing Information<\/i><\/b><b><i><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use table of contents, index, glossary, atlas, almanac, dictionary and thesaurus.<\/li>\n<li>Understand how to search for items using the library catalog and local library materials using call number.<\/li>\n<li>Locate information or research a topic using more than one source.<\/li>\n<li>Create a bibliography using format rules.<\/li>\n<li>Understand copyright and plagiarism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>&nbsp;<\/i><b><i>Appreciating Literature<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify a story\u2019s sequence of events.<\/li>\n<li>Identify cause-and-effect relationship.<\/li>\n<li>Make predictions based on clues.<\/li>\n<li>Reach logical conclusions.<\/li>\n<li>Distinguish between fact and opinion, fiction and nonfiction.<\/li>\n<li>Read and identify characteristics of a variety of genre.<\/li>\n<li>Identify where a selection may be located in the library.<\/li>\n<li>Read and identify classics and award winning books.<\/li>\n<li>Use the library for selecting recreational reading materials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>&nbsp;<\/i><b><i>Understanding Mass Media<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify various media used to convey information.<\/li>\n<li>Describe the function of different elements in magazines and newspapers.<\/li>\n<li>Create a media work for a specific purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>RELIGION<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Listen\/respond to Scripture.<\/li>\n<li>Actively participate in prayer experiences using a variety of formats.<\/li>\n<li>Respond creatively to lessons taught.<\/li>\n<li>Read lives of saints and share with classmates.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss and ask questions.<\/li>\n<li>Reflect on self and the service rendered to others.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate knowledge and appreciation of the Scriptures.<\/li>\n<li>Relates learning to and think critically about real-life situations.<\/li>\n<li>Participate in liturgical services, especially Holy Week.<\/li>\n<li>Initiate prayer services.<\/li>\n<li>Pray using different formats.<\/li>\n<li>Raise questions about Faith in order to learn more.<\/li>\n<li>Manifest compassion and concern for others.<\/li>\n<li>Read and explain passages from Scripture.<\/li>\n<li>Trace themes in the Bible.<\/li>\n<li>Explain the symbols of the Sacraments.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss characteristics of holiness found in people in the Scripture and today\u2019s society.<\/li>\n<li>Act as peacemaker.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss the connection between Scripture and one\u2019s own life.<\/li>\n<li>Dramatize stories\/plays\/poems about Scripture.<\/li>\n<li>Relate historical events and persons to the time of Jesus and the early Church.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>MATH<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Calculations &amp; Estimations<\/i><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Order, model and compare common fractions, decimals and percentages.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize characteristics of odd, even, prime and composite numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Divide by two digit numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Add, subtract, multiply and divide order fractions, decimals, percentages and whole numbers..<\/li>\n<li>Model percentages to determine equivalent decimals.<\/li>\n<li>Determine order of operation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Statistics &amp; Probability<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand and use mean, median, mode and range.<\/li>\n<li>Understand basic concepts of sampling.<\/li>\n<li>Represent and interpret data using tables, circle graphs, bar graphs and plot graphs.<\/li>\n<li>Connect simple fractional probabilities to events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Algebraic Relationships<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Represent and analyze patterns and functions using words, tables, graphs or simple algebraic expressions.<\/li>\n<li>Represent the idea of a variable as an unknown quantity using a letter or symbol.<\/li>\n<li>Represent and evaluate algebraic expressions involving a single variable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Measurement<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Know conversion between Fahrenheit and Celsius temperatures.<\/li>\n<li>Develop and use formulas for determining the perimeter and area of rectangles and related triangles and parallelograms.<\/li>\n<li>Use metric measurements to make estimates of length, weight and volume.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Geometry<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify, describe, compare and classify triangles by their sides and angles.<\/li>\n<li>Accurately draw and label triangles, angles and line segments using measuring tools.<\/li>\n<li>Identify and build three-dimensional objects from two-dimensional representations.<\/li>\n<li>Understand and measure acute, right and obtuse angles in degrees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>SCIENCE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Physical Science<\/i><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Know states of matter (solid, liquid, gas, plasma, heating, cooling).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Life Science<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Know that cells: need food, water, air and are visible using a microscope.<\/li>\n<li>Describe life cycle and survival of organisms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Earth &amp; Space Science<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Describe weather patterns .<\/li>\n<li>Identify stars and planets, the Earth and moon\u2019s orbits.<\/li>\n<li>Understand recycling and its impact on the environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Inquiry<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand and use the scientific process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>History &amp; Nature of Science<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Know ways and places people practice science.<\/li>\n<li>Know how new observations may resolve differences in explanations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Science In Personal &amp; Social Perspectives<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contrast observations and inferences.<\/li>\n<li>Know that inventions are likely to lead to other inventions.<\/li>\n<li>Know the effect of choices on availability of natural resources.<\/li>\n<li>Understand how scientific developments can help keep us safe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Science &amp; Technology<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Know that tools are used to gather scientific information.<\/li>\n<li>Understand how use of technology in solving problems can cause new problems.<\/li>\n<li>Design a scientific project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>&nbsp;<i>Health<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognize the need for age-appropriate hygiene.<\/li>\n<li>Introduce male and female reproductive systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>SOCIAL STUDIES<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Civics &amp; Government<\/i><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand how the branches of federal government work.<\/li>\n<li>Know how the U.S. makes treaties with other nations.<\/li>\n<li>Know how federal laws are made.<\/li>\n<li>Identify essential ideas of &nbsp;U.S. government, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.<\/li>\n<li>Identify basic rights given to U.S. citizens and how individuals can participate in the democratic process.<\/li>\n<li>Understand how U.S. has interacted with other nations in our past (examples: France, England, Spain).<\/li>\n<li>Identify functions of federal states and local governments.<\/li>\n<li>Understand democracy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Economics<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand nature of war and conflict.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize that people earn income by exchanging labor for wages and salaries.<\/li>\n<li>Understand exchange of goods and services among colonists and Native Americans.<\/li>\n<li>Recognize that nations interact through trade.<\/li>\n<li>Know that a budget is a record-keeping plan for managing income.<\/li>\n<li>Trace the development of technology and the impact of major&nbsp;inventions on business productivity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Geography<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify major landforms, bodies of water, vegetation and climates of &nbsp;U.S., principle parallels and meridians (examples: equator, arctic circle).<\/li>\n<li>Understand how physical geography affects migration and&nbsp;settlement patterns.<\/li>\n<li>Know ways Native Americans and early settlers adapted to and&nbsp;changed the environment.<\/li>\n<li>Use maps and other visual representations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>History<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand the causes, course and impact of the American Revolution.<\/li>\n<li>Know contributions of North American peoples from pre-history through the period of the American Revolution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Social Science Analysis<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gather, use and document information from multiple sources (examples: print, electronic, human, primary, secondary).<\/li>\n<li>Examine one issue, event or problem through inquiry and research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>PHYSICAL EDUCATION<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Expressive &amp; 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