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English Q1 Project Tree
Click to print (for your home refrigerator) : English Q1 FINAL TREE
5th Grade Q4 Language Arts Project Tree
Click to print PDF: OTA 5 Q4 Language Arts PROJECT TREE
5th Grade Q3 Language Arts Project Tree
5th Grade Q2 – Language Arts Tom Sawyer Project Tree
Language Arts | Q2_Tom Sawyer Reading_PROJECT TREE.pdf
Independent Reading – POETRY
Core Knowledge Poetry Reading List for 5th Grade
Read • Memorize • Recite • Emulate • Illustrate!
2nd Quarter Poetry Readings:
A Wise Old Owl
Edward Hersey Richards
Wise Old Owl
A wise old owl sat upon an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why aren’t we like that wise old bird?
Edward Hersey Richards
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Eagle: A Fragment
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Opposites: A Selection
Richard Wilbur
The Arrow and the Song
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman
See below for texts of each poem….
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Independent Reading Exam Pie – 5th Grade Summer Reading
The Independent Reading Pies are designed to encourage students to read, actively and for pleasure, outside of class. Continue reading
5th Grade – Seminar Readings
The Fifth Grade Will Read or Study the Following Stories, Essays, & Paintings – from Touchpebbles Volume B (the Touchstones Discussion Project):
1. The Great Fire in the Northern Forest
(A Tale to Begin Seminar) ……………………. 1
2. About Revenge
by Francis Bacon . ………………………… 3
3. Diamond Painting in Red, Yellow, and Blue
by Piet Mondrian …………………………. 5
4. Two Women and a Baby
1 Kings 3: 16-27,from the Bible . ………………. 7
5. A Case Study in Medical Ethics …………………… 9
6. A Paradox of Motion
by Zeno of Elea …………………………. 11
5th Grade – Seminar Reading Timeline Chart
To earn credit for each Seminar, students will fill in a 5 Ws Seminar TIMELINE for all Readings. Here is the timeline with the first few titles filled in. Students complete the rest.
Please ask at home to find out what your child entered in the Why? Column (the Author’s Message) and the Most Representative Quotations? Column for each reading.
Seminar Introduction • Seminar Hints
SEMINAR isn’t like other classes. First of all, the teachers are some of the most famous authors, thinkers, leaders, painters, scientists, musicians, and mathematicians who ever lived; second, they are usually dead. And since they aren’t there to tell us, no one has the final, or right, answer to questions about their books or paintings or songs or ideas. So it’s up to all of us to work together to discover things we might never discover on our own; and so gain a very deep and multifaceted understanding of each author’s or creator’s ideas. The works we will study in Seminar are interesting, difficult, and often profound; they have changed the world. They are worth reading more than once!
Seminar Hints
Before & During Your Reading:
- Look over the Active Reading Checklist.
- Talk Back to the Author as you read!
- Ask Questions, Look for Proof, Demand Evidence, Question Assumptions!
During Seminar:
- Don’t raise hands; take turns.
- Talk to each other, not just to the teacher (or teachers).
- Listen respectively and actively to what others say. No side conversations!