Gifted
and Talented Literature Units:
Authenticity in
Literature: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Quest for
Fantasy: The Hobbit
Spelling
Scholastic Spelling Series
Wordly Wise
French Reading
Students will gain experience with:
- Reading for Literary Experience
Sophie part en voyage
La sorcière dans la soupe
Le plan secret de Jérémie Jalbert
Louis Braille
Les génies ne se promènent pas à bicyclette
Écrire, pourquoi pas?
Writing
Students will gain experience
with:
·
Writing
To Inform- Students will compose:
multi-step directions
a news story
a multi-paragraph report
a written summary
a business letter requesting information
an addressed envelope
·
Writing To Persuade- Students
will compose
a business letter stating an opinion
results of pro/con debate
·
Writing To Express Personal Ideas-
Students
will compose:
a tall tale
a human interest story
a poem- Quatrain, Limerick, or Narrative
Mathematics-
Students
will gain experience with:
·
Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley Mathematics Program
Whole
Numbers and Decimals
v
understand place
value
v
add and subtract
v
multiply
v
divide- one and
two digit divisors
Data,
Statistics, and Graphs
Measurement
Geometry
Fractions
Perimeter,
Area, and Volume
Ratio, Percents, and Probability
·
Gifted
and Talented Curriculum- Passport Program
Mathematics
in French-
Students will
use the same text and topics listed above and the Addison-Wesley series.
Science-
Students will gain experience
with:
·
Discovering energy
·
Discovering earth changes
·
Discovering micro-organisms and systems
·
Gifted
and Talented Curriculum- Independent study of a topic related to energy
Health-
Students will gain experience:
·
Understanding personal health
·
Studying substance use and abuse
·
Understanding disease prevention
·
Understanding
human growth and development
Social Studies-
Students will:
·
discover colonization
·
discover the Revolution
·
use and create maps
·
Gifted
and Talented Curriculum- Study concept of authenticity in history
