Unit Essential Question:

Do kids have the ability to be successful entrepreneurs?

Learning Target/Essential Question:
What do good readers do?
Am I clear about what I just read? How do I know?

Common Core
Ready
Units/Lessons:
Lessons 1-7

Unit 2
Survival

Unit Topic: Survival

Novel:
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Supplemental Texts:
Common Core Ready Units/Lessons:
Unit 3: 11
Unit 4: Lesson15
Unit 6: Lesson 21
Unit Essential Question:
What does it take to survive?
Learning Target/Essential Question:
Authors choice: Why does it matter? What makes a
great story?
In what ways does creative choice impact an audience?
Whose story is it, and why does it matter?

Focus:
Narrative
Writing
Lucy Calkins:
Common Core
Ready
Units/Lessons:
Lessons 8-11

After reading The

Lemonade War,
compare the two
main characters
experience as
entrepreneurs and
argue which was
more successful.

Foundation
Skills

Common Core Ready Units/Lessons:

Unit 2: Lessons 5, 6, and 7
Unit 6: Lesson 22

Focus:
Narrative
Writing
Lucy Calkins:

LDC

Speaking/Lis
tening

Unit Topic: Entrepreneurship

Novel:
The Lemonade Wars by Jacqueline Davies
Supplemental Texts:

Writing &
Language

Language

Reading

Writing

Unit 1
Entrepreneurship

Unit
Title &
Length

Target Standards
Reading

Plans

RL.5.1
RL.5.2
RL.5.3
RL.5.9

W.5.3

L.5.1

N/A

RF.5.
4

RL.5.4
RL.5.7
RI.5.4

W.5.2
W.5.4
W.5.9

L.5.2

SL.5
.1

RF.5.
4

Focus:
Note-taking
In-text citations

After reading
Maniac Magee and
other texts, choose
three ingredients
any person needs
to survive a
situation and argue
why each is
important.
Focus:
Note-taking
In-text citations
*Bibliography

Unit 3
Virtual World vs. Real World
Unit 4
Walking in Anothers Shoes

Unit Topic: Virtual World vs. Real World

Novel:
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
Supplemental Texts:
Alice in Wonderland-Exemplar
The Great Fire-LTF
The Witch by Jack Prelusky-LTF
Common Core Ready Units/Lessons:
Unit 1: Lesson 1, 2, 3
Unit 2: Lesson 8 (review of all unit 2)
Unit Essential Question:
Is the virtual world better than the real world
Learning Target/Essential Question:
What do good readers do?
Am I clear about what I just read? How do I know?

Focus:
Narrative
Writing
Lucy Calkins:
Common Core
Ready
Units/Lessons:
Lessons 15, 16,
18, 19

After reading
Gregor the
Overlander and
many other texts,
write an essay
where you
determine which is
better: the virtual
world or the real
world.
Focus:
Note-taking
In-text citations
Bibliography
*Counterclaims
*Using information
from text to
support
(paraphrasing,
citations).

RL.5.2
RI.5.1
RI.5.2

W.5.1

RL.5.6
RI.5.3
RI.5.6

W.5.1
W.5.8

L.5.4
L.5.5

SL.5
.2

L.5.3

SL.5
.3
SL.5
.4

Unit Topic: Walking in Anothers Shoes

Novel:
Dangerous Waters by
Supplemental Texts:
The New Colossus-Exemplar
Common Core Ready Units/Lessons:
Unit 1: Lessons 4a and 4b
Unit 3: Lesson 14
Unit 4: Lesson 17
Unit Essential Question:
Do people all see things the same way?
Learning Target/Essential Question:
What do good readers do?
Am I clear about what I just read? How do I know?
Authors choice: Why does it matter? What makes a
great story?

Focus:
Narrative
Writing
Lucy Calkins:
Common Core
Ready
Units/Lessons:
Lessons 12-14

After reading
Dangerous Waters
and one primary
source, compare
the point of view of
a character in
Dangerous Waters
and the point of
view of a real
person aboard the
Titanic and explain
how it helped you
better understand
that moment in
history.

Unit 5
Lifes Goals and
Aspirations

Unit Topic: Lifes Goals and Aspirations

Novel:
Biographies, plays and poems (about people)
Supplemental Texts:
Common Core Ready Units/Lessons:
Unit 4: Lesson 16
Unit 5: Lessons 19 and 20
Unit Essential Question:
Where do you see yourself in 15 years?
Learning Target/Essential Question:
Authors choice: Why does it matter? What makes a
great story?
In what ways does creative choice impact an audience?
Whose story is it, and why does it matter?

Focus:
Narrative
Writing
Lucy Calkins:
Common Core
Ready
Units/Lessons:
Lessons 17, 2023

After reading a few

biographies, argue
which biography
will help you reach
your lifes goals.

RL.5.5
RI.5.8
RI.5.9

W.5.2
W.5.7

L.5.6

SL.5
.5

Kids Choose!

RI.5.3
RI.5.5
RI.5.7

W.5.5
W5.6
W.5.9

Revie
w

SL.5
.6

Unit 6
Kids Choose

Unit Topic: Kids Choose

Novel:
Literature Circle
Supplemental Texts:
Common Core Ready Units/Lessons:
Unit 1: Lessons 4a and 4b
Unit 3: Lesson 13
Unit 5: Lesson 18
Unit Essential Question:
Do you have the qualities of a researcher?
Learning Target/Essential Question:
What do good readers do?
Am I clear about what I just read? How do I know?
Authors choice: Why does it matter? What makes a
great story?
In what ways does creative choice impact an audience?
Whose story is it, and why does it matter?

Focus:
Narrative
Writing
Lucy Calkins:
Common Core
Ready
Units/Lessons:
Review based
on data