1. Theme 1: Finding a Way Content Objectives and Language Objectives

2.  Comprehension Objective: Students will recognize plot events, conflict, and resolution in a story; and understand how conflicts are resolved in a story.  Vocabulary: humiliation, expectations, fringes, hesitating, sincere, coaxed  Spelling Objective: Students will spell correctly words with closed syllables with short-vowels patterns.  Grammar Objective: Students will identify complete, declarative, and interrogative sentences.  Writing Objective: Students will demonstrate a personal voice in writing.

3.  Comprehension Objective: Students will recognize plot events, conflict, and resolution in a story; and understand how conflicts are resolved in a story.  Vocabulary: maven, mortified, reigned, conceited, designated, smirk, exhilarated.  Spelling Objective: Students will spell correctly words with long vowels and vowel digraphs.  Grammar Objective: Students will identify imperative and exclamatory sentences as well as interjections.  Writing Objective: Students will write an autobiographical composition and demonstrate voice.

4.  Comprehension Objective: Students will recognize that authors reveal a character’s motives through traits, thoughts, words, and actions and make inferences regarding a character’s motives in a text.  Vocabulary: pried, desperately, sneered, indignantly, urgently, grudgingly  Spelling Objective: Students will spell correctly words with vowel digraphs.  Grammar Objective: Students will identify subjects and predicates in a sentence and use them correctly in writing.  Writing Objective: Students will demonstrate word choice when writing an autobiographical narrative.

5.  Comprehension Objective: Students will recognize that authors reveal a character’s motives through traits, thoughts, words, and actions and make inferences regarding a character’s motives in a text.  Vocabulary: relented, faze, eccentric, infuriated, disheartened, impassable, crusaded  Spelling Objective: Students will spell correctly words with the –ed or –ing endings.  Grammar Objective: Students will identify and use complete and simple subjects and predicates correctly.  Writing Objective: Students will use vivid and descriptive words as well as effective organization for a newspaper article.

6.  Comprehension Objective: Students will identify the distinguishing characteristics of a talent show and read aloud a talent show as a Readers’ Theater.  Vocabulary: genial, prognostication, stricken, dramatically, restrain, protest, feverishly, overcome, flop, spectacular

7.  Comprehension Objective: Students will….  recognize plot events, conflict, and resolution in a story.  understand how conflicts are resolved in a story.  recognize that authors reveal a character’s motives through traits, thoughts, words, and actions.  make inferences regarding a character’s motives in a text.  identify and analyze the characteristics of narrative text.  understand and identify the characteristics of particular genres of narrative text.

8.  Spelling Objective: Students will correctly spell words with…  closed syllables and short vowels patterns  long vowels, vowel digraphs, and vowel diphthongs  words with –ed and –ing endings.

9.  Grammar Objective: Students will…  identify, form, and use complete, declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory sentences, and interjections in writing and speaking  recognize sentence fragments  identify complete and simple subjects and predicates

10.  Vocabulary Objective: The students will…  Use a variety of strategies to determine meaning  Use context to clarify word meaning

11.  Writing Objective: Students will…  revise writing for voice and word choice  Refine a selected piece to publish