5th grade

• Course Overview

English

• Summarize and paraphrase information from a text
• Read and interpret charts, graphs, and other graphic representations in a text
• Analyze a writer’s point of view and compare points of view from various writers on the same topic
• Use interjections, prepositions, and conjunctions for more descriptive and elaborate writing
• Understand each of the five stages of the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
• Write a narrative complete with an event, narrator, and characters
• Use punctuation in titles correctly with proper capitalization, quotation marks, underscore, and italics
• Use correlative conjunctions correctly in a sentence: not only/but also, either/or, neither/nor
• Use perfect verb tense correctly and understand how they convey time of events

Math

• Use place value to add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals
• Apply formulas to solve various customary length/weight/capacity/temperature problems
• Calculate the probability of an event

Science

• Comparing and describing different properties of matter such as state, texture, and mass
• The four different spheres of the Earth (biosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere)
• The relationship of the sun, Earth, and moon to shadows, constellations, and yearly patterns
• The role of computers, robots, and artificial intelligence in our society

Social Studies

• Pre-Colonial America
• 13 Colonies
• Revolutionary War
• The US Constitution
• Westward Expansion