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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 is faithful through the generations.
God makes covenant promises with his people.
God calls us to be faithful to him and to one another.
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How does God work through our families and histories?
How did God guide his people through nations and exile, kings and prophets?
What citizenship does God call us to today?
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Take-home tests; family history project
Classroom discussions, Bible activities
Memory Work: Psalm 36:5-9, 33:12-22, and other passages from the prophets and the New Testament
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Reading
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Read for fluency, understanding, comparison & contrast.
Apply genre; flashback, point of view, and mood.
Study poetry, tall tale, short story, novel, essay.
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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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Tic tac toe--independent reading of genre-novels
Theme studies: Civil War, Lincoln; Christian decision
Poetry scansion, short story comparison, application of flashback, point of view, and mood.
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Spelling
Vocabulary
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English words have come from many different places.
English has adopted many common prefixes and suffixes.
Some words are confused, mispronounced, and misspelled.
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How do we discover words’ etymologies?
What patterns do common prefixes and suffixes follow?
Why is it important to review often-misspelled words?
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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 prepositional phrases.
Direct & indirect objects; predicate nominatives & adjs.
Learn types of pronouns; review parts of speech, mechs.
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How do phrases match the parts of speech?
How can you construct effective phrases and sentences?
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, cause and effect, and story.
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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, cause and effect, story
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Mathematics
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Master use of integers, patterns, and percents.
Review 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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Learn US History from its beginnings to the Civil War.
Study how colonial settlements led to a new nation, why religious and financial freedoms invited immigration and expansion, and why the country fought.
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How was the US founded? Was/Is it a Christian nation?
How did religious and financial freedoms lead to immigration and expansion?
What caused the Civil War? How was the nation saved?
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Timelines, RAFTS, skits, newspapers, and maps
Quizzes
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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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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