Name______________________________ Date___________________ Period _____________

RELA Module 2:
Start Date: September 26, 2016

Completion Date: November 4, 2016

Total Days: 30

(Students will be expected to complete activities during class and at home for 30 minutes each night.)

Standards:
ELAGSE5RL1: Quote accurately from a text when
explaining what the text says explicitly and when
drawing inferences from the text.
ELAGSERL2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or
poem from details in the text, including how
characters in a story or drama respond to challenges
or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic;
summarize the text.
ELAGSE5RL3: Compare and contrast two or more
characters, settings, or events in a story or drama,
drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how
characters interact).
ELAGSE5RL4: Determine the meaning of words and
phrases as they are used in a text, including
figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
ELAGSE5RL5: Explain how a series of chapters,
scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the
overall structure of a particular story, drama, or
poem.
ELAGSE5RL6: Describe how a narrators or speakers
point of view influences how events are described.
ELAGSE5RL7: Analyze how visual and multimedia
elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty
of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia
presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
ELAGSE5RI9: Integrate information from several
texts on the same topic in order to write or speak
about the subject knowledgeably.
ELAGSE5W1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts,

SS5H1 The student will explain the causes,

major events, and consequences of the
Civil War
a. Identify Uncle Toms Cabin and John
Browns raid on Harpers Ferry and explain
how each of these events was related to the
Civil War.
b. Discuss how the issues of states rights and
slavery increased tensions between the
North and South.
c. Identify major battles and campaigns: Fort
Sumter, Gettysburg, the Atlanta Campaign,
Shermans March to the Sea, and
Appomattox Court House.
d. Describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln,
Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson
Davis, and Thomas Stonewall Jackson.
e. Describe the effects of war on the North
and South.
SS5G1 The student will locate important
places in the United States.
b. Locate important man-made places;
include the Chisholm Trail; Pittsburgh, PA;
Gettysburg, PA; Kitty Hawk, NC; Pearl Harbor,
HI; and Montgomery, AL.

S5L1. Students will classify organisms into groups and relate

how they determined the groups with how and why scientists
use classification.
a. Demonstrate how animals are sorted into groups (vertebrate
and invertebrate) and how vertebrates are sorted into groups
(fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal).
b. Demonstrate how plants are sorted into groups.

supporting a point of view with reasons.

Key Vocabulary:
Reading & Language Arts
Quote, Annotation, Explicit, Implicit, Inference,
Literary, Informational Fiction, Non-Fiction,
Close Reading, Genres, Claim, Thesis, Paraphrase,
Summarize, Theme, Drama, Poetry, Summarize,
Character, Speaker Main Idea, Protagonist,
Paraphrase, Speaker, Compare/Contrast,
Characterization, Setting, Plot Resolution, Rising
Action, Climax, Falling Action, Denotation,
Connotation, Literal, Concrete, Idiom, Metaphor,
Simile, Figurative Language, Personification
Hyperbole, Alliteration, Irony, Onomatopoeia,
Structure, Scene, Stanza, Drama, Chapter,
Heading, Act, Line, Verse, Series, Bias, Opinion,
Point Of View, First Person, Second Person, Third
Person Narrator, Visual, Audio Graphic Novel,
Multimedia, Digital, Tone, Beauty of Text, Folk
Tale, Myth, Integrate, Synthesize, Topic, Citation

Social Studies
Civil War, Ft. Sumter, Gettysburg, The
Atlanta Campaign, industrial and railway,
South, North, The Union,The Confederate
Shermans March to the Sea, Confederacy
Appomattox Court House, General Lees,
General Grant, Reconstruction, Rebuilding
the southern economy, agricultural vs.
industrial, Sharecropping, The Bureau of
Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
(the Freedmens Bureau), Jim Crow laws

Science
vertebrate groups of birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and
mammals, Group, Classify, Conclude, Graph, Characteristics
Similarities, Differences,

Unit Performances:
Activity Title
A (*) is an assignment that MUST be completed
*AR Quiz 8 Smart Goal of 80 and above

Est.
Time

Quiz or
Practice Work

4cp

Quiz

2 cp

PW

2 cp

PW

2cp

PW

BrainPop - Take 2 quizzes email results to teacher

Photosynthesis
Seedless Plants
Seed Plants
Plant Growth

Animal Shuffle
Communicating about Vertebrates
Plant Adaptations Research
http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/adapt.html
Compare and Contrast: Spiders and Insects
Invertebrates Fairy Tale
Effects of the War
Civil War Diary Entries

2cp

PW

cp

PW

3 cp

PW

1 cp

PW

Points
Received

Total
Points

Teacher Initial

Reconstruction-Whos and Whats

Themed Filled Cupcakes
Figurative Language Task Cards (12)
Onomatopoeia Comic Strip
Oxymoron Movie Poster

2 cp

PW

1 cp.

Quiz

2 cp

PW

Performance Task
Activity Title

Est.
Time

Group/
Independent

Civil War/Reconstruction ABC Scrapbook

2hrs

Independent

Monologue: Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown

My Unforgettable Trip
Personification Play
Childrens Book

2hrs.

Independent

1hrs

Both

1hrs

Both

5 hrs

Independent
Independent

Points
Received

Total
Points

Teacher Initial