What will we learn this year? 

Unit 1: We will kick off our year with reading  “The Hundred Dresses”. We will discuss the actions of the characters in the book. We will make connections to real life by discussing a common theme-TREAT OTHERS THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE TREATED) Students will talk about bullying in schools and how to prevent it. Then, we will begin a unit of study on exploration into Arkansas and the west. We will start off with the Spanish and French explorers who came through Arkansas. Last, we’ll move on to a non-fiction book titled“Who Was Daniel Boone?” This will be a great way to introduce the concept of the “Wild” West and Westward Expansion (how America grew/expanded to add more territory). Daniel Boone opened up the lands to the west of the Appalachian Mountains to settlement by creating the Wilderness Road.  From there, we will then study the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Virginia 1607 while reading “Elizabeth’s Diary: Our Strange New Land”

Unit 2: Literature Unit: fiction- “Treasure Island”

Unit 3: A study of the American Revolution, founding fathers/documents, non-fiction articles

Unit 4: Literature Unit: fiction- “Tuck Everlasting”

Unit 5: Louisiana Purchase: non-fiction Lewis and Clark: In Their Own Words

Unit 6: Economics: Market Day fiction-“Lawn Boy” by Gary Paulsen