Welcome to Fourth Grade!

May/June: What is Grade Four studying?

ELA:

Module 4: Responding to Inequality: Ratifying the 19th Amendment

Module Summary: This module uses literature and informational texts to introduce students to gender and racial inequality issues in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, and to recognize how the process of ratifying the 19th Amendment can teach us about how people were responding to gender and racial inequality at that time

Unit Tasks: 

• Building Background Knowledge: Reading about and Analyzing Events in The Hope Chest
• Analyzing Characters and How Their Actions Contribute to Theme: Reading and Analyzing The Hope Chest
• Call to Action: How Can We Make a Difference?

Illustrative Math:

Unit 4:  From Hundredths to Hundred-Thousands

• Represent, compare, and order decimals to the hundredths by reasoning about their size.
• Write tenths and hundredths in decimal notation.
• Read, represent, and describe the relative magnitude of multi-digit whole numbers up to 1 million.
• Recognize that in a multi-digit whole number, the value of a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right.
• Compare, order, and round multi-digit whole numbers within 1,000,000.
• Add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.