GRADE+4

** Grade 4 Curriculum Map 2011-2012 ** Launching Reader’s Workshop (9/07 – 10/7) |||||||| //Growing Stewards:// Dissecting Texts to Make Meaning (10/11 – 12/02) |||||| Crossing the Bridge to Construct Meaning (to Jan. 30) |||||| Analyzing Texts to Evoke Deeper Meaning |||||||| Test Sophistication Reading: MC |||||||| Evoking Sensory Images  || Literary Essay |||||||| Poetry  || 12/1- 2/9 ||||||||  Interactions of Air, Water and Land 2/13-4/20  |||||||||||||| Electricity and Magnetism 4/23-6/20 || As a historian students will create a multimedia presentation from the point of view of a colonist, Native American or a water droplet for the History Channel’s celebration of the Colonial period. The presentation will depict the relationships between the Native Americans, colonists and their environment (water) during the colonial period. |||||||| Nation Building Network Party – Students study different historical figures from the Colonial/Revolutionary Period. They must use their research to take on the roles of the famous figures they studied. As an attendee you must prepare a speech portraying your opinion of the impending war. You must decide if you are a loyalist or a patriot and support your decision in your speech with accurate time period details. |||||||||||||| President Obama has chosen you because of your status as a world renowned scientist to travel back in time to relay the effects of the current energy crisis to Ben Franklin. It is your job to persuade him to create efficient sources of energy. Using images, graphs, letters you must create a presentation for this encounter that demonstrates the energy crisis in 2012. You must also go prepared with your own suggestions for using sustainable natural resources for energy || Grade 4 Curriculum Map
 * Alain L. Locke Elementary Magnet School for Environmental Stewardship **
 * ** Subjects ** ||||  ** Sept **  ||||||||  ** Oct **  ||  ** Nov **  ||||  ** Dec **  ||  ** Jan **  ||  ** Feb **  ||||  ** March **  ||||||  ** April **  ||||||||  ** May **  || ** June ** ||
 * ** Reading ** |||||| //Building Stewards://
 * Test Prep**
 * ** Writing ** ||||||  Launching WW (Ends Oct 7th)  |||||||| Persuasive Essay ||||||  Biography  ||||||  Literary Essay  |||||||| Writing: short response
 * ** Social **  ** Studies **  ||||||||||||||  Native Americans: First Inhabitants of New York State  ||||||  Three Worlds Meet  ||||||||  Colonial and Revolutionary Periods  ||||||||||||||  The New Nation  ||
 * ** Science ** |||||||||||||| Ecosystems: Animals and Plants in Their Environment 9/22- 11/30 |||||| Properties of Water
 * ** Math ** ||  Units 1  ||||||||  Unit 2  ||||  Unit 3  ||  Units 4  ||||  Unit 5  ||||  Units 6-7  ||  Unit 7  ||||  Units 8  ||||||||  Unit 9  |||| Unit 10 ||
 * ** Essential Question: ** |||||||||||||| How do people, animals and plants adapt to social and physical changes in their environment? |||||| What inspires sustainable change? |||||||| How do interactions lead to conflict? |||||||||||||| How does change move us forward to a sustainable future? ||
 * **Enduring Understanding:** |||||||||||||| All living things are required to change in order to ensure their survival. |||||| Exchanges within communities and environments are factors that influence change. |||||||| Interactions within communities and environments can create conflict. |||||||||||||| Innovation is the product of an imaginative mind. ||
 * ** Performance Task: ** |||||||||||||| Native American Museum Exhibits: As museum curators Students will create a museum installation, for tourists, depicting the relationship Native Americans of NYS had with plants and animals-nature |||||| Who are you?
 * ** Performance Task: ** |||||||||||||| Native American Museum Exhibits: As museum curators Students will create a museum installation, for tourists, depicting the relationship Native Americans of NYS had with plants and animals-nature |||||| Who are you?
 * ** Published pieces: ** |||||||| Quick Write Personal Narrative |||||| Environmental Persuasive Essay |||||| Biography based on an environmentalist |||||| Literary Essay |||||||||| TBD |||||| Environmental Poetry Books ||

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