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Grade 5 Objectives
Emily Bolen
OMSSC objectives:
American Heritage:
1. Identify significant individuals from the region’s past and explain their influence on people from different times and their impact on the cultural heritage of the US.
3. Measure time by decades and centuries.
5. Use fictional and nonfictional historical narratives to gain a sense of “the times” in which people lived.
7. Compare past and present means of transportation and communication in the region.
World Interactions:
3a. Suggest reasons for the distribution of population and the lavation of selected places with respect to resources, historical events or human wants.
4a. Give examples of human movement and compare reasons, distances, frequency and mode of transportation
Decision Making and Resources:
6. Cite regional examples of how people earn income through each of the four factors of production
7. Describe a market and identify types of market. (Child market?)
Democratic Processes:
4. Examine and interpret examples of political activity as applications of the characteristics of American Democracy
Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities:
1. Differentiate between facts and opinions and between relevant and irrelevant information when examining national issues.
2. Acquire, interpret, and analyze information regarding national issues. A. Use more than one source to obtain information. B. Identify points of agreement and disagreement among sources. C. Draw inferences predict likely outcomes and organize key ideas.
6. Facilitate a project to improve the general welfare of the school or community.
Language Arts Performance Objectives:
Reading:
Structure:
2. Read across the genres including historical fiction and biography
3. Identify and use vocabulary critical to meaning of the text.
5. Recognize and discuss the use of literary and figurative language: similes, metaphors, etc.
Meaning Construction:
1. Be proficient at selecting appropriate materials for a variety of purposes including enjoyment and information (explain why picked.)
2. Respond with increasing independence to fiction and nonfiction in a variety of ways: analyze infer critique, summarize, evaluate, synthesize compare and contrast etc.
3. Make connections between proper knowledge and new information
5. Locate appropriate information to support ideas concepts and interpretations gleaned from text.
Application:
4. Select and use an appropriate mode of response to extend a reading experience
6. Use library to broaden concepts when engaged in research
7. Maintain a list of books read
Multidisciplinary:
2. Explain need for individual human rights and freedom as revealed through exploration of literature and other media.
3. Collaborate with others to construct meaning through participation in literature response groups.
4. Gather and evaluate appropriate material related to theme/topic.
7. Use reading as a tool for learning and thinking
6. Demonstrate ability to persuade
Meaning Construction:
2.Locate appropriate information to support ideas concepts and interpretations for writing.
Application
1. Write daily for a variety of purposes and audiences
2. Take on different perspectives roles while engaged in writing
Multidisciplinary
1. Use computers in writing activities
4. Use dictionary to increase vocabulary knowledge after listening and viewing
Meaning construction
1. Gather information related to a particular topic.
2. Distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information gained through listening or viewing
7. Specify how concepts about a particular topic have been broadened or modified through listening and viewing experience
Application.
1. Engage in active listening during oral reading, discussion and peer presentation
Structure
2. Participate in prepared debate with peers
Meaning Construction
4. Reaffirm, extend or change ideas and concepts through discussion
Application
3.Ask appropriate question to seek information and clarify meaning.