Humanities (5/6)
Students are introduced to various types of literature, literary themes, and techniques, while further developing their vocabularies. The reader’s workshop approach allows students to practice critical reading skills, including inferential thinking, finding themes and motifs within a text, historical fiction, and nonfiction.
HISTORY: The curriculum focuses on studies of ancient Egypt and Greece. Geography, literature, and the arts are some of the avenues used to explore these subject areas. We investigate the essential question "What is culture?" and explore the ancient world through map skills, timelines, and charts.
ENGLISH: Students are introduced to various types of literature, literary themes, and techniques, while further developing their vocabularies. The reader’s workshop approach allows students to practice critical reading skills, including inferential thinking, finding themes and motifs within a text, historical fiction, and nonfiction. Reading skills and concepts are taught through mentor texts, and students are asked to apply these concepts in their independent reading. In conjunction with independent reading, students discuss literature in small book club groups. The goals of the literature program are twofold: to encourage students to enjoy reading and to help them become more perceptive, competent, readers, and thinkers.
Students continue to develop both expository and creative writing skills, increase their knowledge of grammar and the mechanics of writing, and develop research and reporting skills. A writer’s workshop approach is used as students brainstorm, draft, revise, and publish their pros
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