Outline of 5th grade content per week
Math
Week 1: Review 4th grade Standards: Place Value, Multiplication, Division
Week 2: Multiplication: Area Model and Algorithm
Week 3: Division: Hangman Strategy
Week 4: Division: Area Model
: Review Multiplication and Division - all strategies
Week 5: Order of Operations (PEMDAS: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, and Addition/Subtraction)
Week 6: Volume
Week 7: Volume
Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators
Week 8: Adding/Subtracting Fractions with Mixed Numbers and Unlike Denominators
Week 9: Review Multiplication, Division, Adding/Subtracting Fractions, Mixed Numbers, and Improper Fractions.
Week 10: Review for Proficiency Assessments: Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Volume, and Word Problems
Week 11: Place Value, Exponents, and Powers of 10
Week 12: Decimals: Comparing, Place Value, and Rounding
Week 13: Comparing Decimals
Week 14: Rounding Decimals
Week 15: Multiplying Fractions with Whole Numbers and with Fractions (Visual Models and Algorithm)
Week 16: Multiplying Fractions with Whole Number and by Fractions (Algorithm)
Week 17: Scaling Fractions
Week 18: Multiplying and Dividing by Powers of 10 and Review of all Math Concepts
Week 19: Dividing Fractions (visual model, reciprocal, and checking with multiplication)
Week 20: Review Dividing Fractions (visual model, reciprocal, and checking with multiplication)
Week 21: Volume: algorithm and solving real world problems
Week 22: Volume: Irregular shapes
Week 23: Adding, subtracting, and multiplying decimals
Week 24: Adding, subtracting, multiplying decimals and Algorithm for Division
Week 25: Metric System, Dividing Decimals using Algorithm
Week 26: Customary System: Converting measurements (length, liquid volume or capacity, and weight)
Week 27: 2-D shapes (attributes and hierarchy) - Polygons, Quadrilaterals, Triangles
:MPA3 Review-Dividing Fractions, Volume, Adding/Subtracting/Multiplying/Dividing Decimals, Metric & Customary Systems, & Polygons
Week 28: Line Plots
Week 29: Coordinate Plane
Week 30: Order of Operations Review
Week 31: Reviewing different strategies (area model and algorithm) for Multiplication and Division
Week 32: Line Plots and Adding Fractions
Week 33: Adding/Subtracting Fractions, Comparing Decimals, Rounding Decimals
Week 34: Review for MPA4: Reviewing all Cycle 4 standards
Week 2: Multiplication: Area Model and Algorithm
Week 3: Division: Hangman Strategy
Week 4: Division: Area Model
: Review Multiplication and Division - all strategies
Week 5: Order of Operations (PEMDAS: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, and Addition/Subtraction)
Week 6: Volume
Week 7: Volume
Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators
Week 8: Adding/Subtracting Fractions with Mixed Numbers and Unlike Denominators
Week 9: Review Multiplication, Division, Adding/Subtracting Fractions, Mixed Numbers, and Improper Fractions.
Week 10: Review for Proficiency Assessments: Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Volume, and Word Problems
Week 11: Place Value, Exponents, and Powers of 10
Week 12: Decimals: Comparing, Place Value, and Rounding
Week 13: Comparing Decimals
Week 14: Rounding Decimals
Week 15: Multiplying Fractions with Whole Numbers and with Fractions (Visual Models and Algorithm)
Week 16: Multiplying Fractions with Whole Number and by Fractions (Algorithm)
Week 17: Scaling Fractions
Week 18: Multiplying and Dividing by Powers of 10 and Review of all Math Concepts
Week 19: Dividing Fractions (visual model, reciprocal, and checking with multiplication)
Week 20: Review Dividing Fractions (visual model, reciprocal, and checking with multiplication)
Week 21: Volume: algorithm and solving real world problems
Week 22: Volume: Irregular shapes
Week 23: Adding, subtracting, and multiplying decimals
Week 24: Adding, subtracting, multiplying decimals and Algorithm for Division
Week 25: Metric System, Dividing Decimals using Algorithm
Week 26: Customary System: Converting measurements (length, liquid volume or capacity, and weight)
Week 27: 2-D shapes (attributes and hierarchy) - Polygons, Quadrilaterals, Triangles
:MPA3 Review-Dividing Fractions, Volume, Adding/Subtracting/Multiplying/Dividing Decimals, Metric & Customary Systems, & Polygons
Week 28: Line Plots
Week 29: Coordinate Plane
Week 30: Order of Operations Review
Week 31: Reviewing different strategies (area model and algorithm) for Multiplication and Division
Week 32: Line Plots and Adding Fractions
Week 33: Adding/Subtracting Fractions, Comparing Decimals, Rounding Decimals
Week 34: Review for MPA4: Reviewing all Cycle 4 standards
Reading
Week 1: Story Structure
Point of View
Irony
Close Reading Strategy
Vocabulary: speciality, disturbing, collapsed, squashing, shifted, numb, staggered, struggled, wobbled, interrupted
Week 2: Theme
Questioning
Elements of a Drama
Characterization
Close Reading Strategy
Vocabulary: discomfort, primitive, interior, honored, secretive, immersed, bungled, contagious, brandishing, imprinted
Week 3: Compare and Contrast
Infer and Predict
Idioms
Persuasive Texts
Close Reading Strategy
Vocabulary: debate, prodded, gradually, decorated, beckoned, scanned, inflated, stalled, shaken, hesitated
Week 4: Sequence of Events
Monitor and Clarify
Phrasing
Narrative Pacing
Rhythm
Poetry
Close Reading Strategy
Vocabulary: competition, identical, routine, element, intimidated, unison, recite, qualifying, uniform, mastered
Week 5: Sequence of Events
Monitor and Clarify
Phrasing
Narrative Pacing
Rhythm
Poetry
Close Reading Strategy
Vocabulary: competition, identical, routine, element, intimidated, unison, recite, qualifying, uniform, mastered
Week 6: Theme
Visualizing
Dialogue
Sequence of Events
Close Reading
Vocabulary: opponents, brutal, supposedly, gorgeous, embarrassed, obvious, typically, preliminary, sweeping, officially
Week 7: Theme
Visualizing
Dialogue
Sequence of Events
Close Reading
Vocabulary: opponents, brutal, supposedly, gorgeous, embarrassed, obvious, typically, preliminary, sweeping, officially
Week 8: Cause and Effect
Figurative Language (Poems)
Vocabulary: presence, outfitted, procedure, dwarfed, snug, perch, transferred, calculate, enthusiastic, beaming
Week 9: Understanding Characters, Plot, and Setting
Vocabulary: romp, strained, picturing, wheeled, shouldered, frantic, lunging, checking, stride, bounding
Week 10: Writing for extended time frames
Opinion Writing
Writing a Letter
Writing an Editorial
Week 11: Review for Proficiency Assessments: Word Meaning, Theme, Main Idea, Quoting from a Text, Inferring, and Summarizing
Week 12: Author's Purpose
Vocabulary: endangered, responsibility, conserving, regulate, unique, attracted, adapted, vegetation, guardians, restore
Week 13: Conclusions and Generalizations
Inferring and Predicting
Vocabulary: critical, demolished, elite, commotion, bundle, annoyance, secured, squalling, clammy, realization
Week 14: Text-To-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World, Close Reading, On-Demand Writing
Vocabulary: NONE this week--- Focus on Writing
Week 15: Main Idea
Vocabulary: resemble, detecting, keen, vary, unobserved, mature, particular, available, ferocious, contentment
Week 16: Cause and Effect
Vocabulary: embark, surveyed, conduct, cramped, bracing, pressing, distracted, representatives, viewpoint, shattered
Week 17: Review for Unit 2 Test
Understanding Characters, Main Idea, Cause and Effect, Quote Accurately from Text
Week 18: Fact & Opinion
Vocabulary: rebellious, objected, benefit, repeal, contrary, midst, temporary, advantages, previously, prohibit
Week 19: Conclusions and Generalizations
Vocabulary: legendary, formal, gushed, strategy, retreat, foes, shimmering, magnificent, revolution, plunged
Week 20: Sequence of Events
Vocabulary: provisions, dexterity, aspects, apprentice, influential, contribution, persuade, authorities, bondage, tentative
Week 21: Compare and Contrast
Vocabulary: rural, tedious, lacked, personally, organize, mocking, efficient, summons, mimic, peal
Week 22: Author's Purpose
Vocabulary: feature, record, assuming, mental, launch, thumbed, developed, incredibly, episodes, villains
Week 23: Story Structure
Vocabulary: original, produced, compliment, admitted, impressed, rumor, collected, concentrate, destination, suspense
Week 23: Main Idea with Supporting Details
Vocabulary: career, publication, background, household, insights, required, uneventful, edition, formula, destruction
Week 24: Author's Purpose
Vocabulary: deteriorating, exception, dependent, issue, urge, ordinance, granted, effective, violations, minimum
Week 25: Author's Purpose, Summarize, Close Reading
Vocabulary: deteriorating, exception, dependent, issue, urge, ordinance, granted, effective, violations, minimum
Week 26: Story Structure: Characterization and Theme, Close Reading
Vocabulary: piercing, descending, savage, quivered, delicacy, fitful, heave, diminishing, rhythmic, marveling
Week 28: Sequence of Events: Visualizing
Vocabulary: pace, undoubtedly, seep, evident, factor, vain, mirages, shuffled, salvation, stunted
Week 29: Sequence of Events: Visualizing
Vocabulary: pace, undoubtedly, seep, evident, factor, vain, mirages, shuffled, salvation, stunted
Week 30: Theme and Inferring/Predicting
Vocabulary: astonished, nerve, bared, reasoned, envy, spared, margins, deserted, upright, banish
Week 31: Theme and Inferring/Predicting
Vocabulary: astonished, nerve, bared, reasoned, envy, spared, margins, deserted, upright, banish
Week 32: Text and Graphic Features and Summarizing
Vocabulary:sprawling, extending, residents, prospered, dominated, flourished, hostile, acquainted, decline, acknowledged
Week 33: Text and Graphic Features and Summarizing
Vocabulary:sprawling, extending, residents, prospered, dominated, flourished, hostile, acquainted, decline, acknowledged
Week 34: Review for RPA4: Review all Cycle 4 standards
Point of View
Irony
Close Reading Strategy
Vocabulary: speciality, disturbing, collapsed, squashing, shifted, numb, staggered, struggled, wobbled, interrupted
Week 2: Theme
Questioning
Elements of a Drama
Characterization
Close Reading Strategy
Vocabulary: discomfort, primitive, interior, honored, secretive, immersed, bungled, contagious, brandishing, imprinted
Week 3: Compare and Contrast
Infer and Predict
Idioms
Persuasive Texts
Close Reading Strategy
Vocabulary: debate, prodded, gradually, decorated, beckoned, scanned, inflated, stalled, shaken, hesitated
Week 4: Sequence of Events
Monitor and Clarify
Phrasing
Narrative Pacing
Rhythm
Poetry
Close Reading Strategy
Vocabulary: competition, identical, routine, element, intimidated, unison, recite, qualifying, uniform, mastered
Week 5: Sequence of Events
Monitor and Clarify
Phrasing
Narrative Pacing
Rhythm
Poetry
Close Reading Strategy
Vocabulary: competition, identical, routine, element, intimidated, unison, recite, qualifying, uniform, mastered
Week 6: Theme
Visualizing
Dialogue
Sequence of Events
Close Reading
Vocabulary: opponents, brutal, supposedly, gorgeous, embarrassed, obvious, typically, preliminary, sweeping, officially
Week 7: Theme
Visualizing
Dialogue
Sequence of Events
Close Reading
Vocabulary: opponents, brutal, supposedly, gorgeous, embarrassed, obvious, typically, preliminary, sweeping, officially
Week 8: Cause and Effect
Figurative Language (Poems)
Vocabulary: presence, outfitted, procedure, dwarfed, snug, perch, transferred, calculate, enthusiastic, beaming
Week 9: Understanding Characters, Plot, and Setting
Vocabulary: romp, strained, picturing, wheeled, shouldered, frantic, lunging, checking, stride, bounding
Week 10: Writing for extended time frames
Opinion Writing
Writing a Letter
Writing an Editorial
Week 11: Review for Proficiency Assessments: Word Meaning, Theme, Main Idea, Quoting from a Text, Inferring, and Summarizing
Week 12: Author's Purpose
Vocabulary: endangered, responsibility, conserving, regulate, unique, attracted, adapted, vegetation, guardians, restore
Week 13: Conclusions and Generalizations
Inferring and Predicting
Vocabulary: critical, demolished, elite, commotion, bundle, annoyance, secured, squalling, clammy, realization
Week 14: Text-To-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World, Close Reading, On-Demand Writing
Vocabulary: NONE this week--- Focus on Writing
Week 15: Main Idea
Vocabulary: resemble, detecting, keen, vary, unobserved, mature, particular, available, ferocious, contentment
Week 16: Cause and Effect
Vocabulary: embark, surveyed, conduct, cramped, bracing, pressing, distracted, representatives, viewpoint, shattered
Week 17: Review for Unit 2 Test
Understanding Characters, Main Idea, Cause and Effect, Quote Accurately from Text
Week 18: Fact & Opinion
Vocabulary: rebellious, objected, benefit, repeal, contrary, midst, temporary, advantages, previously, prohibit
Week 19: Conclusions and Generalizations
Vocabulary: legendary, formal, gushed, strategy, retreat, foes, shimmering, magnificent, revolution, plunged
Week 20: Sequence of Events
Vocabulary: provisions, dexterity, aspects, apprentice, influential, contribution, persuade, authorities, bondage, tentative
Week 21: Compare and Contrast
Vocabulary: rural, tedious, lacked, personally, organize, mocking, efficient, summons, mimic, peal
Week 22: Author's Purpose
Vocabulary: feature, record, assuming, mental, launch, thumbed, developed, incredibly, episodes, villains
Week 23: Story Structure
Vocabulary: original, produced, compliment, admitted, impressed, rumor, collected, concentrate, destination, suspense
Week 23: Main Idea with Supporting Details
Vocabulary: career, publication, background, household, insights, required, uneventful, edition, formula, destruction
Week 24: Author's Purpose
Vocabulary: deteriorating, exception, dependent, issue, urge, ordinance, granted, effective, violations, minimum
Week 25: Author's Purpose, Summarize, Close Reading
Vocabulary: deteriorating, exception, dependent, issue, urge, ordinance, granted, effective, violations, minimum
Week 26: Story Structure: Characterization and Theme, Close Reading
Vocabulary: piercing, descending, savage, quivered, delicacy, fitful, heave, diminishing, rhythmic, marveling
Week 28: Sequence of Events: Visualizing
Vocabulary: pace, undoubtedly, seep, evident, factor, vain, mirages, shuffled, salvation, stunted
Week 29: Sequence of Events: Visualizing
Vocabulary: pace, undoubtedly, seep, evident, factor, vain, mirages, shuffled, salvation, stunted
Week 30: Theme and Inferring/Predicting
Vocabulary: astonished, nerve, bared, reasoned, envy, spared, margins, deserted, upright, banish
Week 31: Theme and Inferring/Predicting
Vocabulary: astonished, nerve, bared, reasoned, envy, spared, margins, deserted, upright, banish
Week 32: Text and Graphic Features and Summarizing
Vocabulary:sprawling, extending, residents, prospered, dominated, flourished, hostile, acquainted, decline, acknowledged
Week 33: Text and Graphic Features and Summarizing
Vocabulary:sprawling, extending, residents, prospered, dominated, flourished, hostile, acquainted, decline, acknowledged
Week 34: Review for RPA4: Review all Cycle 4 standards
Writing
Week 1: Letter to Teacher: What 3 jobs do you want at JA BizTown & why would you be the best person for those jobs?
Week 2: RAP Strategy: Short Answer
RUN CARS Strategy: ERQ Answers
Week 3: RAP Strategy: Short Answer
Week 4: RAP Strategy: Short Answer Questions to Off and Running
Letter to CEO of JA BizTown: 3 life skills you learned at JA BizTown
Week 5: Sequence of Events: Finding text evidence and using sequence of events key words to describe sequence of events in a text.
Week 6: Poetry: Selfie Poem using Figurative Language
Week 7: Comparing: Compare the roles of a male, female, child, and slave in the 18th c. on a Virginia farm
Week 8: Practice ERQ & Short Answer Responses: Students will practice writing ERQs and Short Answers for math, reading, and social studies
Week 9: Argumentative Opinion: "Should JCPS add an Hour to End of the School Day?" (30 minute prompt)
Week 10: Argumentative Opinion: Create a New Law and give details to support it. (30 minute prompt)
Week 11: Informative Piece: Describe an animal and how it adapts to its environment. (30 minute prompt)
Week 12: Descriptive Piece: What is the weather like in the spring, summer, fall, and winter in Louisville? (30 minute prompt)
Week 13: Revising Descriptive Piece: What is the weather like in the spring, summer, fall, and winter in Louisville? (30 minute prompt)
Week 14: Opinion: Why or why not should elephants perform in the circus? (30-minute prompt)
Week 15: Opinion: Who is most important in your life? Why? (30-minute prompt)
Week 16: Informative: Write a letter to a newspaper explaining how people impact the Earth's natural resources. (90-min. prompt)
Week 17: Informative: Write a letter to a newspaper explaining how people impact the Earth's natural resources. (90-min. prompt)
Week 18: Informative: Write to Facebook subscribers informing them how Facebook can be a positive & rewarding experience. (90-min. prompt)
Week 19: Informative: Write an article explaining how schools can avoid a ban on foods that contain nuts. (90-min. prompt)
Week 20: Editing: Write an article explaining how schools can avoid a ban on foods that contain nuts. (90-min. prompt)
Week 2: RAP Strategy: Short Answer
RUN CARS Strategy: ERQ Answers
Week 3: RAP Strategy: Short Answer
Week 4: RAP Strategy: Short Answer Questions to Off and Running
Letter to CEO of JA BizTown: 3 life skills you learned at JA BizTown
Week 5: Sequence of Events: Finding text evidence and using sequence of events key words to describe sequence of events in a text.
Week 6: Poetry: Selfie Poem using Figurative Language
Week 7: Comparing: Compare the roles of a male, female, child, and slave in the 18th c. on a Virginia farm
Week 8: Practice ERQ & Short Answer Responses: Students will practice writing ERQs and Short Answers for math, reading, and social studies
Week 9: Argumentative Opinion: "Should JCPS add an Hour to End of the School Day?" (30 minute prompt)
Week 10: Argumentative Opinion: Create a New Law and give details to support it. (30 minute prompt)
Week 11: Informative Piece: Describe an animal and how it adapts to its environment. (30 minute prompt)
Week 12: Descriptive Piece: What is the weather like in the spring, summer, fall, and winter in Louisville? (30 minute prompt)
Week 13: Revising Descriptive Piece: What is the weather like in the spring, summer, fall, and winter in Louisville? (30 minute prompt)
Week 14: Opinion: Why or why not should elephants perform in the circus? (30-minute prompt)
Week 15: Opinion: Who is most important in your life? Why? (30-minute prompt)
Week 16: Informative: Write a letter to a newspaper explaining how people impact the Earth's natural resources. (90-min. prompt)
Week 17: Informative: Write a letter to a newspaper explaining how people impact the Earth's natural resources. (90-min. prompt)
Week 18: Informative: Write to Facebook subscribers informing them how Facebook can be a positive & rewarding experience. (90-min. prompt)
Week 19: Informative: Write an article explaining how schools can avoid a ban on foods that contain nuts. (90-min. prompt)
Week 20: Editing: Write an article explaining how schools can avoid a ban on foods that contain nuts. (90-min. prompt)
Social Studies
Week 1: Culture, 5 Themes of Geography
Week 2: Regions, Needs/Wants, Scarcity, Historical Perspective
Week 3: Native Americans/ Explorers
Week 4: First Settlers from England
Week 5: Colonization: French, English, Powhatans, Africans: different cultures-- How did they all interact?
4 C's: Communication, Conflict, Cooperation, and Compromise
Week 6: Colonization in Northern, Middle, and Southern Colonies
Week 7: Colonial America: Slavery, Economics, and Government
Week 8: French and Indian War
Week 9: Review for Proficiency Assessments: Geography, Native Americans, Early Colonization, Slavery, French and Indian War
Week 10: First Continental Congress and The Quartering Act
Week 11: Revolutionary War, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party
Week 12: Causes of Revolutionary War: French and Indian War, First Continental Congress, Quartering Act, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party
Week 13: Assign Revolutionary Soldier Projects, Declaration of Independence!
Week 14: Revolutionary War
Week 15: A New Form of Government
Week 16: Articles of Confederation and Separation of Powers (3 Branches: Executive, Judicial, Legislative)
Week 17: U.S. Constitution
Week 18: Review for SSPA (American Revolution, US Constitution)
Week 19: US Constitution, Bill of Rights, Branches of Government
Week 20: Westward Expansion and Louisiana Purchase
Week 21/22: Lewis & Clark, War of 1812, Indian Removal Act
Week 23: African American Research Project assigned
Transcontinental Railroad
A Nation Divided: Northern and Southern states: economic and social differences
Week 24: Northern and Southern Regional Differences (pre-civl war), Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act
Week 25: Causes of Civil War, and Beginning/During/After Civil War
Week 26: Civil War, Reconstruction and After Civil War
Week 27: SSPA Review: U.S. Constitution, 3 Branches of government, Civil War
Week 28: Factory Life and Immigration
Week 29: Progressivism, Great War (World War I), Great Migration
Week 30: Great Depression, Roaring 20s
Week 31: Great Depression, Dust Bowl, WWII
Week 32: Civil Rights Movement
Week 33: March on Washington, Cold War, Present Day Challenges
Week 34: Review SSPA4: Reviewing all Cycle 4 standards
Week 2: Regions, Needs/Wants, Scarcity, Historical Perspective
Week 3: Native Americans/ Explorers
Week 4: First Settlers from England
Week 5: Colonization: French, English, Powhatans, Africans: different cultures-- How did they all interact?
4 C's: Communication, Conflict, Cooperation, and Compromise
Week 6: Colonization in Northern, Middle, and Southern Colonies
Week 7: Colonial America: Slavery, Economics, and Government
Week 8: French and Indian War
Week 9: Review for Proficiency Assessments: Geography, Native Americans, Early Colonization, Slavery, French and Indian War
Week 10: First Continental Congress and The Quartering Act
Week 11: Revolutionary War, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party
Week 12: Causes of Revolutionary War: French and Indian War, First Continental Congress, Quartering Act, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party
Week 13: Assign Revolutionary Soldier Projects, Declaration of Independence!
Week 14: Revolutionary War
Week 15: A New Form of Government
Week 16: Articles of Confederation and Separation of Powers (3 Branches: Executive, Judicial, Legislative)
Week 17: U.S. Constitution
Week 18: Review for SSPA (American Revolution, US Constitution)
Week 19: US Constitution, Bill of Rights, Branches of Government
Week 20: Westward Expansion and Louisiana Purchase
Week 21/22: Lewis & Clark, War of 1812, Indian Removal Act
Week 23: African American Research Project assigned
Transcontinental Railroad
A Nation Divided: Northern and Southern states: economic and social differences
Week 24: Northern and Southern Regional Differences (pre-civl war), Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act
Week 25: Causes of Civil War, and Beginning/During/After Civil War
Week 26: Civil War, Reconstruction and After Civil War
Week 27: SSPA Review: U.S. Constitution, 3 Branches of government, Civil War
Week 28: Factory Life and Immigration
Week 29: Progressivism, Great War (World War I), Great Migration
Week 30: Great Depression, Roaring 20s
Week 31: Great Depression, Dust Bowl, WWII
Week 32: Civil Rights Movement
Week 33: March on Washington, Cold War, Present Day Challenges
Week 34: Review SSPA4: Reviewing all Cycle 4 standards