P.S./M.S. 108

ELA: 

Module 1: Stories of Human Rights

Unit Summary:  Human rights and how real people and fictional characters respond when those rights are threatened. 

 Unit Tasks: 

• Students reread a literary text, and answer selected response questions and write a paragraph about it (mid-unit assessment). Students revise a literary essay comparing and contrasting character reactions to events that threaten their human rights in Esperanza Rising (end of unit assessment).
• Students draft an original monologue based on an event and from the perspective of a character from Esperanza Rising (mid-unit assessment). They read aloud an excerpt from Esperanza Rising and revise their Directors’ Note (end of unit assessment).

Module 2: Biodiversity in the Rainforest

Module Summary: In this module, students read to build knowledge about the rainforest and analyze the author's craft in narrative writing to build proficiency in writing first person narratives about the rainforest.

Unit Task: 

• Students research to determine ways they can help the rainforest and discuss their findings, including the challenges with implementing those ideas, in a Science Talk. 

Eureka Math:

Module 2: Multi-Digit Whole Numbers and Decimal Fraction Operations 

Students will...

• multiply multi-digit whole numbers and multiples of 10 using place value patterns
• write and interpret numerical expressions
• connect area models and the distributive property 
• multiply decimal fractions
• use divide by 1 0 patterns for multi-digit division 
• divide decimal dividends by two-digit divisors 

Module 3: Addition and Subtraction of Fractions  

Students will...

• make equivalent fractions with the number line
• add and subtract fractions between 1-2
• use benchmark numbers to assess reasonableness of solutions using benchmark numbers 

Common Core Learning Standards:

5.NBT.A.1- Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.

5.NBT.A.2 - Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, and explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10. Use whole-number exponents to denote powers of 10.