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full curriculum is presented in my books.
Any resource you may find unavailable, an alternative is recommended in
my books. I also describe in detail how to
construct your own study guides there as well.
5th Grade Overview |
Language Arts |
Reading
Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Grammar
Book/Literature Reading: selected classics and reading level appropriate
books and periodicals. Knowledge of Literary Authors,
Study of Literature & Poetry,
Stanford EPGY Elementary Composition
D'Nealian Cursive. |
Some
of the resources we used
Steck-Vaughn Trails
& Dales Rev (Reading Comprehension (Steck-Vaughn))
Series Level F
Steck-Vaughn
Critical
Thinking: Reading, Thinking, and Reasoning Skills (Level B)s,
we used: Level E
Language
Exercises: Level D (Cr Lang Exercise 2004)
we used: Level F
Steck
Vaughn Language Skill Book: Capitalization And Punctuation (Language
Skill Books)
Steck
Vaughn Language Skill Books: Nouns Verbs And Sentences (Language
Skill Books)
Steck-Vaughn
Pronouns,
Adjectives, Adverbs, and Paragraphs (Language Skill Books)
What
Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of A Good Fourth-Grade
Education (The Core Knowledge Series)
by E.D. Hirsch
What
Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know, Revised Edition (The Core Knowledge
Series)-
E.D. Hirsch
What
Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know, Revised Edition: Fundamentals
of a Good Fifth-Grade Education (Core Knowledge Series)
- E.D. Hirsch
Spelling Linking Words to Meaning L5 (Spelling - Softcover)
Level 5
Steck-Vaughn
Vocabulary
Connections: Level F (Vocabulary Connections)
Literature
Reading (Abbreviated Booklist)
Total number on booklist: 25
Uncle
Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
To
Be a Slave (Point (Scholastic Inc.))
- Julius Lester
The
Red Badge of Courage (Enriched Classics)
- by Stephen Crane
Bull
Run
by - by Paul Fleischman
The
Odyssey
- by Homer
Adventures
Of Sherlock Holmes (scholastic Classics) (Scholastic Classics)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Hamlet
(Folger Shakespeare Library)
- by William Shakespeare
The
Secret Garden (The Illus Children's Library)
- Frances Hodgson Burnette
The
Sign of the Beaver
- Elizabeth George Speares
Caddie
Woodlawn
- Carol Ryrie Brink
Night
Journies - by Avi
Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Whole Story)
- Robert Lewis Stevenson
Sing
Down the Moon
- by Scott ODell
The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain Library)
- by Mark Twain
Black
Beauty (The Illus Children's Library)
- Anna Sewell
The
Giver
by Lois Lowry |
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Geography, World Culture, US History |
US
Geography, Canadian Geography , South American Geography, European
Geography
Late Middle Ages, European Renaissance
Incas
US Constitution and the Bill of Rights
The Civil War, State History. |
World
History Series - The
Late Middle Ages (World History)
by James A. Corrick
A
History of US: Book 4: The New Nation (1789-1850) (History of
U.S., Book 4)
by Joy Hakim
What
Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of A Good Fourth-Grade
Education (The Core Knowledge Series)
by E.D. Hirsch,
Jefferson
the Man: In His Own Words
A
History of US: Book 11: Sourcebook and Index (History of Us)
by Joy Hakim
A
History of US: Book 5: Liberty for All? 1820-1860 (History of
Us)
by
Joy Hakim
A
History of US: Vol 6, War, Terrible War (A History of Us)
by Joy Hakim,
Matthew
Brady's Illustrated History of the Civil War with 737 Brady Photographs
by Benson J. Lossing
What
Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know, Revised Edition: Fundamentals
of a Good Fifth-Grade Education (Core Knowledge Series)
BY E.D. Hirsch
Great
Speeches (Dover Thrift Editions) |
Science & Technology |
Taxonomy,
Cell Structure.
Genetics, Reproduction in animals, Human body systems, Human Reproduction,
Mechanical Concepts Electronics & Robotics, Engineering Concepts,
|
What
Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know, Revised Edition: Fundamentals
of
a Good Fifth-Grade Education (Core Knowledge Series)
- E.D. Hirsch
Genetics (Teach Yourself 101 Key Ideas)
Janice Vancleave's A+ Projects in Biology
by Joyce VanCleave
Five
Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth
by Lynn Margulis, Karlene V. Schwartz
“Invent
America” |
Mathematics |
Stanford
EPGY Mathematics |
EPGY
5th/6th grade Mathematics.
Stanford's
Education program for Gifted youth no longer exists. There are
other math programs now that I recommend in my
book. |
Art/Art History |
The
Renaissance and The Renaissance Masters, Flemish Painters &
Moorish Architecture, Baroque Period.
Art : Printmaking, Sculpture, Oil Painting
.
Music:
Contemporary |
Great
paintings of the western world
by Allison Gallup
Michelangelo
(XL Series)
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Foreign Language |
Spanish,
French
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KidSpeak
Spanish
KidSpeak
French |
Physical Education |
Tae
Kwon Do Martial Arts, Snow Skiing, Soccer |
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