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** Grade: 5 Unit: 5 Week: Overview Content: Language Arts **


 * Exploration, Real and Imagined **


 * This five-week unit builds on the study of character development begun in Unit Four by having students articulate what we learn from real and fictional characters’ experiences. **

Students choose an exemplar text with a dreamlike context—such as Alice in Wonderland or The Little Prince—to read with their peers and to examine what we can learn from the characters’ experiences and development. If students have the opportunity to view performances of the books they can also discuss how the performances are similar to and different from the book. Additionally, students read informational texts such as My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World or biographies of explorers in order to apply lessons learned from literature to informational text. Students also create an individual semantic map of the word exploration in order to help their understanding of the real and fictional characters studied in this unit. Finally, this unit ends with an informative/explanatory essay in response to the essential question.


 * Essential Question: Why do people, real or imagined learn from exploring their world? **


 * Standards **
 * RL.5.5 ** : Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama or poem.
 * RL.5.7 ** : Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., a graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, (or) poem.)
 * RI.5.8 ** : Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identify which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
 * RF.5.4 ** : Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
 * W.5.3 ** : Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
 * W.5.5 ** : With guidance and support form adults and peers, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
 * SL.5.2: ** Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse medial and formats, including visual, quantitatively, and orally.
 * L.5.5: ** Demonstrate understanding figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.


 * Objectives **
 * Compare similarities and differences between two exemplar text (e.g., //Alice and Wonderland// and //The Little Prince//).
 * Respond to poetry, prose, and informational text in writing and in class discussions.
 * Explain how poetry is used within prose.
 * Discuss how illustrations in Alice and Wonderland and/or The Little Prince play a role in telling the story.
 * Recite poetry for classmates- original and parody versions.
 * Defining related words and identify their parts of speech (//e.g., exploration, explorer, exploratory; character, characterization, characterize//).
 * Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors.
 * Research and report on an explorer.
 * Write an exploration story.


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