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Enduring Understandings
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Essential Questions
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Sample Instructional Activities/Assessments
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Bible
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Jesus calls and encourages his people.
Jesus strengthens and spreads his church.
Jesus’ story is the church’s, and it is mine too.
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How does Jesus guide and encourage us?
How did Jesus’ church grow and spread?
How is Jesus’ story mine and ours today?
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Take-home tests; family-and-church “Talk Topics”
Classroom discussions and debates, Bible activities
Memory Work: Luke 1:68-79; Romans 8:28-39 and others
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Reading
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Read for fluency, understanding, applying, and synthesis.
Compare and contrast genre; foreshadow, frame, symbol
Study poetry, mythology, short story, novel, A. Lincoln
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How can abstract language deepen our understandings?
Why should literary techniques match their content?
Why did Jesus call himself The Word? What should that mean for us?
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Tic tac toe--independent reading of genre-novels
Theme studies: Civil War, Lincoln; Christian decision
Poetry scansion, short story comparison, application of foreshadowing, framing, and symbolizing
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Spelling
Vocabulary
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English words have come from many different languages.
Prefixes and suffixes affect words’ parts of speech.
Many spellings do not follow standard rules.
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How do we discover words’ etymologies?
What patterns do words from other languages follow?
Why do so many words have different spellings?
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Weekly pretests, practice tests, and post-tests
Weekly lessons to practice vocabulary/spelling lists
Practice pronouncing/defining vocabulary/spelling words
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Grammar
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Identify and write compound and complex sentences; adjective, adverb, and noun clauses; prepositional, participial, gerund, and infinitive phrases.
Understand the parts of speech and mechanics.
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How do clauses and phrases match parts of speech?
How can you construct effective sentences, paragraphs?
Why is knowing correct grammar important?
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Sentence surgery
Daily grammar mini-lessons
Unit pretests and post-tests; quarterly cumulative tests
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Writing
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Apply the writing process: prewriting, first draft, revise, proofread, and publish.
Practice writing a research report, persuasive letter, comparison and contrast, and personal narrative.
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Why is writing clearly essential to communicating?
How should different writing styles match different types of writings?
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Research report:: prewriting, note cards, draft, revise-proofread, publish
Persuasive letter, comparison/contrast, personal narrative
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Mathematics
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Master use of integers, patterns, and percents.
Continue review, application of decimals and fractions.
Deepen study of geometry and algebra concepts and applications.
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How do we understand and use integers, patterns, and percents?
Why are geometry and algebra important to God’s world and our understanding of it?
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Daily lessons
Math activities
Unit tests
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Science
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Learn how and why we study Physical Science: structures; matter; motion, force, and work; and electricity.
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How do we understand Physical Science: structures; matter; motion, force, and work; and electricity?
How do we acknowledge their Designer and Sustainer?
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Laboratory experiments
Projects
Unit tests
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Social Studies
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Review the five themes of Geography: location, regions, movement, place, human-environment interaction.
Apply the five themes to the Eastern Hemisphere: Asia, Africa, and Europe.
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How do the five themes of geography help us understand God’s world?
What are similarities and differences among people and places? Why do people live where they do?
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Log of geography terms; nonfiction reading for content
Application/synthesis projects: maps, travel journal, virtual travelogue
Unit tests
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Christian Conduct
Service
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Jesus calls us to practice our faith with deeds of service.
Growing a vibrantly Christian learning community involves helping, encouraging, and praying with one another.
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How do we practice learning and living as Jesus’ school?
How should we spend time, money, and effort to serve one another and others in our community and world?
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Kindergarten Buddies; lead Friendship Groups activities
Serve cafeteria lunches; fly flags
School chapel-worship and classroom devotions
Annual service projects such as volunteer at Mel Trotter Mission, raise funds for Hope Int’l New Orleans relief.
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