American Revolution Level 5
UplandUnifiedSchool District
IDEA PAGES
- UNIT THEME
- Freedom was so important to the colonists’ that they were willing to suffer and endure at any cost.
- Brave American patriots contributed greatly to the American Revolution.
- Freedom from oppression
- FOCUS/MOTIVATION
- Cognitive Content Dictionary
- Observation Charts
- Inquiry Chart
- Teacher-made Big Books
- Realia
- Picture File Cards
- Super Historian Awards
- CLOSURE
• Student generated test
• Cause/effect
• Portfolio
- expository
- persuasive letter
- found poem
- biography
• Process inquiry and all charts
• Personal exploration
•Class/team big books
IV. GRADE 5 CALIFORNIA STANDARDS
History/Social Studies
5.3 Students describe the cooperation and conflict that existed among the Indians and between the Indian nations and the settlers.
- Competition among the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Indian Nations for control of North America.
- Cooperation that existed between the colonists and Indians during the 1600s and 1700s.
- Conflicts before the Revolutionary War.
- Role of broken treaties and massacres and the factors that lead to the Indians' defeat, including the resistance of Indian nations to encroachments and assimilation.
- Internecine Indian conflicts, including the competing claim for control.
- Influence and achievements of significant leaders of time.
5.4 Students understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era
- Influence of location and physical setting on the founding of the original 13 colonies,
their location on a map along with the location of the American Indian nations already
inhabiting these areas. - Major individuals and groups responsible for the founding of the various colonies and
the reasons for their founding. - Religious aspects of the earliest colonies.
- Significance and leaders of the First Great Awakening that marked a shift in religious
ideas, practices and allegiances in the colonial period; the growth of religious toleration
and free exercise. - The British colonial period created the basis for the development of political self
government and a free market economic system, unlike Spanish and French colonial rule. - Introduction of slavery into America, the responses of slave families to their condition, the ongoing struggle between proponents and opponents of slavery, and the gradual institutionalization of slavery in the South.
- Early democratic ideas and practices that emerged during the colonial period, including the significance of representative assemblies and town meetings.
5.5Students explain the causes of the American Revolution.
- Political, religious, and economic ideas and interests brought about the Revolution.
- Significance of the first and second Continental Congress and the Committees of Correspondence.
- People and events associated with the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence and the document's significance, including the key political concepts it embodies, the origins of those concepts, and its role in severing ties with Great Britain.
- Views, lives, and impact of key individuals during this period.
5.6Students understand the course and consequences of the American Revolution.
- Identify and map the major military battles, campaigns and turning points of the Revolutionary War, the roles of the American and British leaders, and the Indian leaders' alliances on both sides.
- Contributions of France and other nations and individuals to the outcome of the Revolution.
- Different roles women played during the Revolution.
- Personal impact and economic hardship on families, problems of financing the war, wartime inflation, and laws against hoarding and profiteering.
- State constitutions established after 1776 embodied the ideals of the American Revolution and helped serve as models for the US Constitution.
- Significance of land policies developed under the Continental Congress.
- Ideals of the Declaration of Independence changed the way people viewed slavery.
English Language Arts
ORAL LANGUAGE/READING/WRITING SKILLS READING
1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary
Students use their knowledge of word origins and word relationships, as well as historical and literacy context clues, to determine the meaning of specialized vocabulary and to understand the precise meaning of grade-level-appropriate words.
Word Recognition
1.1Read aloud narrative and expository text fluently and accurately and with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.
Vocabulary and Concept Development
1.2Use word origins to determine the meaning of unknown words.
1.3Understand and explain frequently used synonyms, antonyms, and homographs.
1.4Know abstract, derived roots and affixes from Greek and Latin and use this knowledge to analyze the meaning of complex words.
2.0 Reading Comprehension
2.1Understand how text features make information accessible and usable.
2.2Analyze text that is organized in sequential or chronological order.
2.3Discern main ideas and concepts presented in texts, identifying and assessing evidence that supports those ideas.
2.4Draw inference, conclusions, or generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge.
2.5Distinguish facts, supported inferences, and opinions in text.
3.0 Literary Response and Analysis
3.1 Identify and analyze the characteristics of poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction and explain the appropriateness of the literary forms chosen by an author for a specific purpose.
3.2 Identify the main problem or conflict of the plot and explain how it is resolved.
3.3 Contrast the actions, motives and appearances of characters in a work of fiction and discuss the importance of the contrasts to the plot or theme.
3.4 Understand that theme refers to the meaning or moral of a selection and recognize themes in sample works.
3.5 Describe the function and effect of common literary devices.
3.6 Evaluate the meaning of archetypal patterns and symbols that are found in myth and tradition by using literature from different eras and cultures.
3.7 Evaluate the author's use of various techniques to influence readers' perspectives.
WRITING
1.0Writing Strategies
1.1Create multiple-paragraph narrative compositions:
a. Establish and develop a situation or plot.
b. Describe setting.
c. Present an ending.
1.2Create multiple-paragraph expository compositions:
a. Establish a topic, important ideas, or events in sequence or chronological order.
b. Provide details and transitional expressions that link one paragraph to another in a clear line of thought.
c. Offer a concluding paragraph that summarizes important ideas and details.
1.3 Use organizational features of printed text to locate relevant information.
1.6 Edit and revise manuscripts to improve the meaning and focus of writing by
adding, deleting, consolidating, clarifying, and rearranging words and sentences.
2.0 Writing Applications
2.1 Write narratives:
a. Establish a plot, point of view, setting, and conflict.
b. Show, rather than tell, the events of the story.
2.2 Write responses to literature:
a. Demonstrate an understanding of a literary work.
b. Support judgments through references to the text and to prior knowledge.
c. Develop interpretations that exhibit careful reading and understanding.
2.3 Write research reports about important ideas, issues, or events by using the following guidelines:
a. Frame questions that direct the investigation.
b. Establish a controlling idea or topic.
c. Develop the topic with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations.
2.4 Write persuasive letters or compositions:
a. State a clear position in support of a proposal.
b. Support a position with relevant evidence.
c. Follow a simple organizational pattern.
d. Address reader concerns.
WRITTEN ANDORAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS
1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions
Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions appropriate to this grade level.
1.1Identify and correctly use prepositional phrases, appositives, and independent and dependent clauses; use transitions and conjunctions to connect ideas.
1.2 Identify and correctly use verbs that are often misused, modifiers, and pronouns.
1.3 Use a colon to separate hours and minutes and to introduce a list; use quotation marks around the exact words of a speaker and titles of poems, songs, short stories, and so forth.
1.4 Use correct capitalization.
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies
1.1Ask questions that seek information not already discussed.
1.2Interpret a speaker's verbal and nonverbal messages, purposes, and perspectives.
1.3Make inferences or draw conclusions based on an oral report.
1.4Select a focus, organizational structure, and point of view for an oral presentation.
1.5Clarify and support spoken ideas with evidence and examples.
1.8 Analyze media as sources for information, entertainment, persuasion, interpretation of events, and transmission of culture.
2.0 Speaking Applications
2.1 Deliver narrative presentations:
a. Establish a situation, plot, point of view, and setting with descriptive words and phrases.
b. Show, rather than tell, the listener what happens.
2.2 Deliver informative presentations about an important idea, issue, or event by the following means.
a. Frame questions to direct the investigation.
b. Establish a controlling idea or topic.
c. Develop the topic with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations.
V.ELD Standards (Grade 3-5)
Comprehension
Beginning Level:
Speak with few words/sentences
Answer simple questions with one/two word response
Retell familiar stories/participate in short conversations/using gestures
Early Intermediate Level:
Ask/answer questions using phrases/simple sentences
Restate/execute multi step oral directions
Intermediate Level:
Ask/answer questions using support elements
Identify key details from stories/information
Early Advanced Level:
Identify main points/support details from content areas
Advanced Level:
Identify main points/support details from stories & subject areas
Respond to & use idiomatic expressions appropriately
Comprehension, Organization & Delivery of Oral Communication
Beginning Level:
Uses common social greetings
Early Intermediate Level:
Identify main points of simple conversations/stories (read aloud)
Communicate basic needs
Recite rhymes/songs/simple stories
Intermediate Level:
Speak with standard English grammatical forms/sounds
Participate in social conversations by asking/answering questions
Retell stories/share school activities using vocabulary, descriptive words/paraphrasing
Early Advanced Level:
Retell stories including characters, setting, plot, summary, analysis
Use standard English grammatical forms/sounds/intonation/pitch
Initiate social conversations by asking & answering questions/restating & soliciting information
Appropriate speaking based on purpose, audience, subject matter
Ask/answer instructional questions
Use figurative language & idiomatic expressions
Advanced Level:
Question/restate/paraphrase in social conversations
Speak/write based on purpose, audience, & subject matter
Identify main idea, point of view, & fact/fiction in broadcast & print media
Use standard English grammatical forms/sounds/intonation/pitch
Reading– Word Analysis
Concepts about Print, Phonemic Awareness, Decoding & Word Recognition
Beginning Level:
Recognize familiar phonemes
Recognize sound/symbol relationships in own writing
Early Intermediate Level:
Read orally recognizing/producing phonemes not in primary language
Recognize morphemes in phrases/simple sentences
Intermediate Level:
Read aloud with correct pronunciation of most phonemes
Use common morphemes in oral & silent reading
Early Advanced Level:
Use knowledge of morphemes to derive meaning from literature/texts in content areas
Advanced Level:
Use roots & affixes to derive meaning
Reading– Fluency & Systematic Vocabulary Development
Vocabulary & Concept Development
Beginning Level:
Read aloud simple words in stories/games
Respond to social & academic interactions (simple questions/answers)
Demonstrate comprehension of simple vocabulary with action
Retell simple stories with drawings, words, phrases
Uses phrases/single word to communicate basic needs
Early Intermediate Level:
Use content vocabulary in discussions/reading
Read simple vocabulary, phrases & sentences independently
Use morphemes, phonics, syntax to decode & comprehend words
Recognize & correct grammar, usage, word choice in speaking or reading aloud
Read own narrative & expository text aloud with pacing, intonation, expression
Intermediate Level:
Create dictionary of frequently used words
Decode/comprehend meaning of unfamiliar words in texts
Recognize & correct grammar, usage, word choice in speaking or reading aloud
Read grade level narrative/expository text aloud with pacing, intonation, expression
Use content vocabulary in discussions/reading
Recognize common roots & affixes
Early Advanced Level:
Use morphemes, phonics, syntax to decode/comprehend words
Recognize multiple meaning words in content literature & texts
Use common roots & affixes
Use standard dictionary to find meanings
Recognize analogies & metaphors in content literature & texts
Use skills/knowledge to achieve independent reading
Use idioms in discussions & reading
Read complex narrative & expository texts aloud with pacing, intonation, expression
Advanced Level:
Apply common roots & affixes knowledge to vocabulary
Recognize multiple meaning words
Apply academic & social vocabulary to achieve independent read.
Use idioms, analogies & metaphors in discussion & reading
Use standard dictionary to find meanings
Read narrative & expository text aloud with pacing, intonation
Reading Comprehension
Beginning Level:
Answer fact questions using one/two word response
Connect simple test read aloud to personal experience
Understand & follow one-step directions
Sequence events from stories read aloud using key words/phrase
Identify main idea using key words/phrases
Identify text features: title/table of contents/chapter headings
Early Intermediate Level:
Use simple sentences to give details from simple stories
Connect text to personal experience
Follow simple two-step directions
Identify sequence of text using simple sentences
Read & identify main ideas to draw inferences
Identify text features: title, table of contents, chapter headings
Identify fact/opinion in grade level text read aloud to students
Intermediate Level:
Orally respond to comprehension questions about written text
Read text features: titles, table of contents, headings, diagrams, charts, glossaries, indexes
Identify main idea to make predictions & support details
Orally describe connections between text & personal experience
Follow multi-step directions for classroom activities
Identify examples of fact/opinion & cause/effect in literature/content texts
Early Advanced Level:
Give main idea with supporting detail from grade level text
Generate & respond to text-related comprehension questions
Describe relationships between text & personal experience
Identify function of text features: format/diagrams/charts/glossary
Draw conclusions & make inferences using text resources
Find examples of fact, opinion, inference, & cause/effect in text
Identify organizational patterns in text: sequence, chronology
Advanced Level:
Make inferences/generalizations, draw conclusions from grade level text resources
Describe main ideas with support detail from text
Identify patterns in text: compare/contrast, sequence/ cause/effect
Writing Strategies and Applications
Penmanship, Organization & Focus
Beginning Level:
Write alphabet
Label key parts of common object
Create simple sentences/phrases
Write brief narratives/stories using few standard grammatical forms
Early Intermediate Level:
Write narratives that include setting and character
Respond to literature using simple sentences, drawings, lists, chart
Write paragraphs of at least four sentences
Write words/simple sentences in content areas
Write friendly letter
Produce independent writing
Intermediate Level:
Narrate sequence of events
Produce independent writing
Use variety of genres in writing
Create paragraph developing central idea using grammatical form
Use complex vocabulary & sentences in all content areas
Write a letter with detailed sentences
Early Advanced Level:
Write detailed summary of story
Arrange compositions with organizational patterns
Independently write responses to literature
Use complex vocabulary & sentences in all content areas
Write a persuasive letter with relevant evidence
Produce writing with command of standard conventions
Advanced Level:
Write short narrative for all content areas
Write persuasive composition
Write narratives that describe setting, character, objects, events
Write multi-paragraph narrative & expository compositions
Independently use all steps of writing process
Writing Conventions
Beginning Level:
Begin own name and sentences with capital letter
Use period at end of sentence
Early Intermediate Level:
Begin proper nouns & sentences with capital letter
Use period at end of sentence/use some commas
Edit for basic conventions
Intermediate Level:
Produce independent writing
Use standard word order
Early Advanced Level:
Produce independent writing with correct capitals, punctuation, spelling
Use standard word order
Edit for basic conventions
Advanced Level:
Use complete sentences and correct order
Use correct parts of speech
Edit for punctuation, capitalization, spelling
Produce writing with command of standard conventions
Reading Literary Response and Analysis
Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level Appropriate Text
Beginning Level:
One/two-word oral responses to factual comprehension questions
Word/phrase oral response identifying characters and settings
Distinguish between fiction & non-fiction
Identify’ fairy tales, folk tale, myth, legend using lists, charts, tables
Early Intermediate Level:
Orally answer factual questions using simple sentences
Orally identify main events in plot
Recite simple poems
Orally describe setting of literature piece
Orally distinguish among poetry, drama, short story
Orally describe character of a selection
Intermediate Level:
Paraphrase response to text using expanded vocabulary
Apply knowledge of language to derive meaning from text
Early Advanced Level:
Describe figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification)
Distinguish literary connotations from culture to culture
Identify motives of characters
Describe themes stated directly
Identify speaker/narrator in text
Identify main problem of plot and how it is resolved
Recognize first & third person in literary text