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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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God created all, and he called and raised a nation through Old Testament patriarchs, judges, and kings.
God makes and keeps covenant promises with people.
God calls us to follow him and grow together.
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How does God call and restore people and nations?
How did God guide his people through sojourns, conquest, nation-building, exile, and post-exile?
How is the Old Testament our story today?
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Take-home tests; research study project
Classroom discussions, Bible activities
Memory Work: Exodus 20:1-17, I Samuel 2:1-10, Psalm 21, 51, 105 & 106, and other Old Testament passages
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Reading
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Read for fluency, understanding, application.
Apply several genre; point of view, personification, alliteration, consonance.
Study poetry, myth, fable, legend, fairy tale, story, novel.
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How does high quality writing help us comprehend it?
How can literary techniques match their content?
Why did Jesus call himself The Word? What can that mean for us?
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Theme studies: Mythology, Legend, Fairy Tale, Tall Tale, Fable; Medieval Living; Jesus’ Day
Application of personification, alliteration, consonance. Tic tac toe--independent reading of genre-novels
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Spelling
Vocabulary
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English uses common vowel and consonant patterns.
English spelling uses many common suffixes.
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Why does English follow common vowel and consonant patterns?
Why should we learn the most common suffixes?
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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 varied sentences; adjective and adverb prepositional phrases.
Punctuate dialogue, interjections; review parts of speech.
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How are phrases and modifiers used differently?
How can you construct effective phrases and sentences?
Why is knowing correct grammar important?
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Daily grammar mini-lessons, journal writing, and sentence surgery; diagramming, paragraph crafting
Unit pretests and post-tests; semester 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 personal narrative, comparison and contrast, story, and research report.
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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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Personal narrative, comparison and contrast, story
Research report:: prewriting, note cards, draft, revise-proofread, publish
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Mathematics
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Learn integers, patterns, and percents.
Master decimals and fractions.
Study geometry, and introduce 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 Earth Science: geology, weather, the universe and solar system, the environment and ecology.
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How do we understand space, planets, and other heavenly bodies; weather, and geology?
How should we be stewards/caretakers of our planet?
How do we acknowledge their Creator and Sustainer?
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Laboratory experiments
Projects
Unit tests
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Social Studies
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Know the five themes of Geography: location, movement, place, human-environment interaction, and regions.
Apply the five themes to the Western Hemisphere: Latin America, Canada, and the United States.
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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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Recycle paper and commingled plastics, jars, and cans
Participate in chapel and assist with classroom devotions
Annual local service projects such as raking leaves in a cemetery, fundraiser for Hope International rescue.
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*In combination classes, Bible curriculum, Reading novels, Social Studies and Science units, and other activities that are not reflected on this Grade-Level Subject Summary Map may be replaced by or conjoined with that of an adjacent grade-level.
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