Grade+5


 * Curriculum Overview for the year**


 * Orientation**: Information Detectives Unit: Level 1 (sections of the library) to Level 2 (using catalog) to Level 3 (using library website as a portal to the Internet)


 * Unit 1:** What’s the same and what’s different between Fantasy and Science Fiction genres?: Writing and listening to booktalks

Inferring meaning using knowledge of history to understand historical photos and documents, For project, create an opinion about a topic. Support it with details from historical photos, and share that knowledge online using Voicethread.
 * Unit 2: Primary Documents**: How do we know history? Primary documents: inferring meaning using knowledge of history and sharing that knowledge online


 * Other resources/lessons on using primary documents:**
 * Primary Documents tell a story: Using old ID cards to draw conclusions about a person's life. Create a timeline of what you know based on the ID cards.
 * Salem Witch Trials read aloud/discussion of primary documents in that trial.
 * Historical fiction bins: Share what you learned about the time period (Info Fluency 1.3.4, 1.4.5)
 * Bins of books about: Government (incl. Schoolhouse Rocks lyrics); NYS; Iroquois. Share what you learned circles (Info Fluency 1.3.5, 1.4.5).
 * Create whole group timeline about colonial history using bin of books.
 * [|Primary Documents] - Drawing conclusions about history from photographs (Info Fluency 1.3.9, 1.4.1)


 * Unit 3:** What makes your country special? Country study with notetaking in ASL (Construct phase of Inquiry process)


 * Unit 4: Online searching skills**/Digital Citizenship Collecting good websites for 5th grade
 * Searching strategies using key words: Synonyms (Info Fluency 1.3.3)
 * Parts of a webpage (Info Fluency 1.3.6)
 * [|RADCAB] Level 1: Evaluating web sites for usefulness, authority, and currency (Info Fluency 1.3.10, 1.3.111, 1.3.12)
 * Databases to find articles (Info Fluency 1.3.5)
 * Fact check exercise (Info Fluency 1.3.12)

Unit 5: Narrative poetry/Novels in verse/Poems that tell a story Unit 6: Summer Reading: Favorite genres

Looking at advertising ** (Info Fluency 1.3.9, 1.4.1, 1.3.11) ** Western expansion: We read Historical Fiction about Western Expansion, took notes watching America: The Story of us, and found "evidence" in the way of primary documents that our historical event took place.
 * Media Literacy**
 * What is bias?
 * What is stereotyping?
 * Arts integration**
 * Find a craft book and make a Xmas present (Info Fluency 1.3.3, 1.3.7, 2.3.3)
 * Social studies integration**

Spirit Day:
 * Shares favorites with others (Info Fluency 3.2.1)
 * Writes book talks/recommendations/reviews (based on character, setting, plot analysis worksheet) on [|Shelfari] (Info Fluency 3.2.1, 2.3.1)
 * Celebrates when they read all of one series, one subject, or one author during Spirit Day (Info Fluency 2.3.1, 2.3.3)