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    Grades 3-5 ELA Curriculum Plan

    Apr 10, 2014 - This document contains the curriculum plan for grades 3-5 ELA from Expeditionary Learning. See also: Texts from Expeditionary Learning
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    Grade 5 ELA Curriculum Map

    May 08, 2014 - The Grade 5 curriculum modules are designed to address CCSS ELA outcomes during a one-hour English Language Arts block. The overarching focus for all modules is building students’ literacy skills as...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1

    Aug 26, 2015 - Becoming a Close Reader and Writing to Learn: Stories of Human Rights What are human rights, and how do real people and fictional characters respond when those rights are challenged? Students will...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 1

    Jun 25, 2014 - BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE ON HUMAN RIGHTS What are human rights? Why do we have them and how are they protected? This unit is designed to help students build knowledge about these questions while...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 1

    May 16, 2014 - Building Background Knowledge on Human Rights: Close Reading of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) This lesson includes many simple protocols or “routines” that support...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 2

    May 17, 2014 - Building Background: A Short History of Human Rights Display learning targets on board, chart paper, or document camera Cut one copy of The Short History of Human Rights handout into 8 sentence...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 3

    May 30, 2014 - Vocabulary Introduction: Human Rights Review Vocabulary strategies and Think Pair Share and Write- Pair-Share protocols (see Appendix 1) For Work Time 2B (flash cards), the focus is on how to make...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 4

    May 17, 2014 - Close Reading: The Introduction to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights This lesson reinforces the vocabulary work from Lesson 3, and introduces a new vocabulary strategy: using morphology (word...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 5

    May 30, 2014 - Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Explaining Human Rights Review Quiz-Quiz-Trade in Vocabulary Strategies (Appendix 1) Review Write-Pair-Share and Fist to Five protocols (Appendix 1) If students finish the Mid-...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 6

    May 30, 2014 - Close Reading: “Unpacking” Specific Articles of the UDHR In this lesson and Lesson 7, students will become “experts” on 11 specific Articles from the UDHR. These Articles were chosen specifically...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 7

    May 30, 2014 - Close Reading: Becoming Experts on Specific Articles of the UDHR This lesson builds directly on Lesson 6. Students use the Close Reading protocol with increasing independence to build and share...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 8

    May 17, 2014 - Summarizing Complex Ideas: Comparing the Original UDHR and the “Plain Language” Version Review Vocabulary strategies and Write-Pair-Share protocols (see Appendix 1)
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 10

    May 30, 2014 - Main Ideas in Informational Text: Analyzing a Firsthand Human Rights Account for Connections to Specific Articles of the UDHR In this lesson students continue to work with the firsthand account they...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 11

    May 17, 2014 - End of Unit 1 Assessment: On-Demand Analysis of a Human Rights Account "From Kosovo to the United States” is a challenging text. Consider having ELLs or struggling readers read through section 1 (...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 2

    Jun 25, 2014 - CASE STUDY: ESPERANZA’S STORY In this second unit, students will apply their new learning about human rights through a case study of how a fictional character responds to human rights challenges....
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 1

    May 30, 2014 - BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: LEARNING ABOUT THE HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING OF ESPERANZA RISING (CHAPTER 1: “AGUASCALIENTES, MEXICO, 1924”)
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 2

    May 30, 2014 - GETTING TO KNOW ESPERANZA (CHAPTER 2: “LAS UVAS/GRAPES”) This lesson introduces a new small group structure: Triad Talk. These reading and discussion groups will be used throughout the study of...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 3

    May 30, 2014 - INFERRING ABOUT CHARACTERS BASED ON HOW THEY RESPOND TO CHALLENGES (CHAPTER 3: “LAS PAPAYAS/PAPAYAS”) This lesson draws directly on the knowledge students built during Unit 1 about human rights....
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 4

    May 30, 2014 - INFERRING ABOUT CHARACTERS BASED ON HOW THEY RESPOND TO CHALLENGES (CHAPTER 4: “LOS HIGOS/FIGS”) This lesson builds directly on Lesson 3, and reinforces a pattern of analysis that students will use...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 5

    May 30, 2014 - CONNECTING INFORMATIONAL TEXT WITH LITERATURE: BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MEXICAN IMMIGRATION, CALIFORNIA, AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 6

    May 17, 2014 - CONTRASTING TWO SETTINGS (CHAPTER 6: “LOS MELONES/CANTALOUPES”) This lesson begins to introduce students to the idea of central metaphors (or symbols) in the novel. This purpose links directly to RL....
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 7

    May 17, 2014 - POINT OF VIEW: COMPARING ESPERANZA’S AND ISABEL’S PERSPECTIVES ABOUT LIFE IN THE CAMP (CHAPTER 7: “LAS CEBOLLAS/ONIONS”) This lesson includes a close reading of pages 116–117, which is done as a full...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 8

    May 17, 2014 - UNDERSTANDING THEMES IN ESPERANZA RISING This lesson goes into more depth on the concept of theme, which was briefly touched on in Lesson 6. Students may not have time in Part B of work time to...
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    Grade 5 ELA Module 1, Unit 2, Lesson 9

    May 17, 2014 - MID-UNIT 2 ASSESSMENT AND DISCUSSING THEMES IN ESPERANZA RISING: (CHAPTER 9: “LAS CIRUELAS/PLUMS”) Review Chapter 9, “Las Papas/Plums” from Esperanza Rising, and the answers to Mid-Unit 2 Assessment...