Module 1A
Module 1 focuses on building community by making connections between visual imagery, oral accounts, poetry and written texts of various cultures with a focus on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture. Module 1 also
reinforces reading
fluency, close text
analysis, explanatory
paragraph writing, and
presenting to peers.
Module 2A
Students learn about what life was like in Colonial America, focusing on how colonists were interdependent on one another. Students read about various colonial trades (such as the wheelwright, the cooper, etc.), with an emphasis on making inferences, summarizing informational texts and conducting basic research
Module 3A
Students build knowledge of simple machines and how they affect force, effort, and work. Students read basic background text and perform Readers Theater about simple machines (written for classroom use). They read an extended scientific text, Simple Machines: Forces in Action, focusing on analyzing scientific concepts.
Module 4
Students learn about voting rights and responsibilities. They first focus on the women’s suffrage movement and the leadership of New Yorker Susan B. Anthony, reading firsthand and secondhand accounts of her arrest and trial. Then students read The Hope Chest (historical fiction set in the weeks before the passage of the 19th Amendment) examining the theme of leaders and their impact on others.