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Fiction

Treasure Island- Stevenson - Great Illustrated Classics/Baronet Press

Week 1

Lesson 1- characterization: pirates

*  Tough Boris - Fox- E FOX

*  Pirates: Robbers of the High Seas- Gibbons- 910.4 GIB

* Roger, the Jolly Pirate- Helquist- E HEL

* Pirates Don't Change Diapers- Long/Shannon- E LON

* How I Became a Pirate- Long- E LON

* Charlie Small 2: The Perfumed Pirates of Perfidy (paperback) - Small- FIC SMA

Lesson 2 - vocabulary

Lesson 3- fact/opinion

Lesson 4- setting

Week 2

Lesson 6- prediction

Lesson 7- details

Lesson 8 - treasure hunt

Lesson 9 - using visuals

Lesson 10- character conflicts/emotions

Week 3

Lesson 11 - drawing conclusions

Lesson 12- character traits

Lesson 13- summarization/organizing information

Lesson 14- main idea

Lesson 15- vocabulary development

* The Wreck of the Zephyr- van Allsburg- E VAN

Week 4

Lesson 16- context clues

Lesson 17- dramatic interpretation

Lesson 18- author's point of view

Lesson 19- inference

Lesson 20- paraphrasing/summarization

Week 5

Lesson 21- story elements

Lesson 22- author's purpose

Lesson 23- graphic sources

Lesson 24- timeline

* Dear Mr. Henshaw- Cleary- FIC CLE

* Querido Señor Henshaw- Cleary- FIC CLE

Lesson 25 - character & events

Lesson 26- celebration

                            Back to Lang. Arts UBD Writing Lessons

Week 1

Lesson 1- Characters/setting

Lesson 2- problem/events/solution

Lesson 3- point-of-view

Lesson 4- writer's workshop

Lesson 5- commas

Week 2

Lesson 6- pronouns

Lesson 7- editing

Lessons 8-9 - illustrations/final copy

Lesson 10- author's chair

Week 3

Lesson 11- game

Lesson 12- writing directions/rules

Lessons 13-14- making the board game

Lesson 15 game day

Week 4- poetry

Lesson 16- haiku

* Dogku - Clements- 811 CLE

* Haiku Hike- St. Mary's Catholic School- PB 811 HAI

Lesson 17- cinquain

Lesson 18- diamante

Lesson 19- limericks

* Lots of Limericks- Livingston- 821 LOT

Lesson 20- shape poem

* Doodle Dandies: Poems that Take Shape- Lewis- 811 LEW

concrete poem- p. 46 "Horizon", "Picket Fence"- * Rainbow Soup: Adventures in Poetry- Cleary- 808.1 CLE

Week 5 - survival story

Lesson 21- setting up a survival story

Lesson 22- writing with suspense

Lesson 23- 1st and 3rd person consistency

Lesson 24- final draft

Lesson 25- author's chair

                                Back to Top                                         Social Studies

                                Back to Soc. Studies                   Unit VII:  Enterprise City - Economics (A Progressive Era)

*  Scarcity- Adil- 338.5 ADI

*  Supply and Demand- Adil- 338.5 ADI

* ECON and Me- RITV videorecording- VHS

*  The Lorax- Seuss- E SEU (Factors of Production)

*  El Lorax- Seuss- E SEU (Factors of Production)

*  Factors of Production and Economic Systems- SVE/Churchill Media videorecording (VHS)

*  Supply and Demand- SVE/Churchill Media videorecording (VHS)

National Celebrations

*  Celebrations- Livingston- 811 LIV

*  Labor Day- Bredeson- 394.2 BRE

Landmarks

*  America the Beautiful- Bates- 811 BAT

*  The Washington Monument- Doherty- 975.3 DOH

*  Celebrate the 50 States- Leedy- 973 LEE

*  Mount Rushmore- Owens- 978.3 OWE

*  The Golden Gate Bridge- Owens- 624.097 OWE

*  A is for America:  An American Alphabet- Scillian- E SCI

*  The Vietnam Veterans Memorial- Sevastiades- 975.3 SEV

*  Washington - Stefoff- 979.7 STE

*  The Statue of Liberty- Strazzabosco--Hayn- 974.7 STR

                                Back to Soc. Studies                   Unit VIII: The 20th Century and Beyond

Rain of Fire - Bauer

The Dust Bowl - Booth

Kwanzaa Karamu:  Cooking and Crafts for a Kwanzaa Feast - Brady

Kwanzaa - Chocolate

*  Norman Rockwell:  America's Best Loved Illustrator - Cohen - B  ROC

*  The Story of Ruby Bridges - Coles -  B  BRI

*  La historia de Ruby Bridges- Coles- B BRI (paperback)

*  The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 - Curtis - FIC CUR

*  A Man Called Ike -Darby - B  EIS

*  Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Feinberg - 940.54 FEI

*  Black Tuesday:  The Stock Market Crash of 1929 - Feinberg- 338.509 FEI

The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito - Garigue

*  Norman Rockwell:  Storyteller with a Brush - Gherman- B  ROC

Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation - Haskins

*  Lives:  Poems about Famous Americans- Hopkins- 811.008 LIV

Dwight D. Eisenhower - Joseph

*  Kids Discover: Vol. 16 Issue 4- The Great Depression- periodical

* Neil Armstrong: The First Man on the Moon- Kramer- B ARM

Lost Star: The Story of Amelia Earhart - Lauber

*  In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - Lord- FIC LOR

*  Number the Stars- Lowry- FIC LOW

Snow Treasure - McSwigan

*  Passage to Freedom - Mochizuki - B SUG

A Long Way to Go - O'Neal

*  Compasses- Richardson- 912 RIC

*  Franklin D. Roosevelt:  Thirty-second president of the U.S.- Osinski- B ROO

Lyddie - Paterson

Treasures in the Dust - Porter

*  On the Road:  Road Travel Past and Present- Shuter- 625.3 SHU

*  Flying High:  Air Travel Past and Present- Shuter- 387.7 SHU

I Am An American:  A True Story of Japanese Internment - Stanley

The Great Depression - Stein

Angel Child, Dragon Child - Surat

*  Sky Pioneer:  A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart - Szabo - B  EAR

*  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Taylor- FIC  TAY

*  The Friendship - Taylor - FIC  TAY

Hiroshima - Yep

                                Back to Soc. Studies                                            Biographies

                               Back to Biographies                                    Neil Armstrong

*  Neil Armstrong:  The First Man on the Moon - Kramer - B ARM

                                Back to Biographies                                  John J. Audobon

*  John J. Audobon:  Artist of the Wild - Kendall- B AUD

                                Back to Biographies                              Benjamin Banneker                                         

                 *  What Are You Figuring Now? Ferris - B  BAN

*  Dear Benjamin Banneker - Pinkney - B  BAN

                                Back to Biographies                                          Clarence Birdseye

                                Back to Biographies                           George Washington Carver

*  George Washington Carver: The Peanut Scientist  -McKissack - B  CAR

*  A Pocketful of Goobers - Mitchell - B  CAR

*  George Washington Carver - Nicholson - B  CAR

*  George Washington Carver  -Rustad - B  CAR

                                Back to Biographies                                      Carrie C. Catt

                                Back to Biographies                                               Cesar Chavez

*  Farmworker's Freedom:  The Story of Cesar Chavez - Collins - B CHA

*  Harvesting Hope:  The Story of Cesar Chavez - Krull - B CHA

*  Cesar Chavez - Shaefer  - B CHA

*  Learning About Justice from the Life of Cesar Chavez - Strazzabosco - B CHA

                                Back to Biographies                            Thomas A. Edison

*  Thomas Edison and Electric Light - video recording

*  A Picture Book of Thomas Edison - Adler - B  EDI

*  The Wizard of Sound - Mitchell - B  EDI

*  Thomas Edison - Nirgiotis - B EDI

*  Thomas Edison - Parker - B  EDI

                                Back to Biographies                             Dwight Eisenhower

*  Dwight Eisenhower:  A Man Called Ike- Darby - B  EIS

                                Back to Biographies                                    Benjamin Franklin

*  A Picture Book of Benjamin Franklin - Adler - B  FRA

*  The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin - Giblin - B FRA

*  Benjamin Franklin and Electricity - Parker - B  FRA

*  Benjamin Franklin - Rustad - B FRA

                                Back to Biographies                                Anne Hutchinson                                 

                                Back to Biographies                               Thomas Jefferson

*  A Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson - Adler - B JEF

*  Thomas Jefferson:  A Picture Book Biography - Giblin- B JEF

*  Thomas Jefferson, Third President - Hargrove- B JEF

*  Thomas Jefferson:  Voice of Liberty - Santella - B JEF

                                Back to Biographies                           Martin Luther King, Jr.

*  Martin Luther King, Jr.:   Free at Last – Adler – B KIN

*  A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Adler -B KIN

Martin Luther King, Jr. – Brown – B KIN -(Spanish) K-3

*  Our Friend, Martin (3 copies) – CBS/FOX – video recording (2 VHS and 1 DVD)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day:  Honoring a Civil Rights Hero – Doering – 323 DOE 

*   Discovery Kids:  MLK Jr.– (magazine)- periodicals for teachers section

NEW        *  Martin Luther King, Jr.: great civil rights leader – Fandel – 323.092  FAN   

              *  My Brother Martin:  A Sister Remembers growing up with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.  – Farris – E FAR

*  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – Frost – 323.092 FRO

*  A Sweet Smell of Roses – Johnson -E  JOH (2 copies)

*  I Have a Dream:  The Life and Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Haskins – B KIN

*  I Have a Dream – King – 305.896 KIN

*  Martin Luther King, Jr. – Lambert – B KIN

*  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – MacMillan – B KIN

NEW        *  El joven Martin Luther King -Tengo un sueno - Mattern- (big book)- located in big book area

*  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – Marx – 323 MAR

*  Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King – Marzollo – B KIN

*  Martin Luther King, Jr.:  Man of Peace - McKissack – B KIN

*  I’ve Seen the Promised Land – Myers – B KIN

*  Martin’s Big Words:  the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Rappaport –  B KIN

*  Martin Luther King, Jr. – Raatma – B KIN 

*  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – Rau – 323 RAU

*  My Dream of Martin Luther King – Ringgold – B KIN

*  Martin Luther King, Jr. - Schaefer – B KIN

*  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – Schlessinger – video recording – 394.26 MAR

*  Martin Luther King:  A Peaceful Warrior – SVE – videorecording (VHS)

*  Ten Amazing People and How They Changed the World – Shaw – 920. SHA

*  Learning about Dignity from the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Strazzabosco – B KIN

                                Back to Biographies                               James Madison

*  James Madison, Fourth President -Clinton - B  MAD

*  James and Dolley Madison - Quackenbush -920 QUA

                                Back to Biographies                                              Rosa Parks

*  A Picture Book of Rosa Parks - Adler - B  PAR

*  Rosa Parks - Greenfield  - B PAR

*  Rosa Parks - Levine - B PAR

*  If A Bus Could Talk - Ringgold- B PAR

*  Rosa Parks - Schaefer - B PAR

                                Back to Biographies                                           William Penn

*  William Penn:  Founder of Pennsylvania - Kroll - B PEN

*  William Penn and Pennsylvania - video recording

                                Back to Biographies                                              Colin Powell

*  Colin Powell - Banta - B POW

*  Colin Powell:  Straight to the Top - Blue - B POW

*  Colin Powell - Patrick-Wexler   -B POW

*  Learning About Responsibility from the Life of Colin Powell - Strazzabosco - B POW

                                Back to Biographies                                       Franklin D. Roosevelt

*  Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States - Osinski - B  ROO

                                Back to Biographies                                         Roger Sherman

                                Back to Biographies                                              John Smith

*  Disney's Pocahontas- E DIS

*  Pocahontas- Nest Entertainment- videorecording VHS

*  Pocahontas- Schaefer- B POC

                                Back to Biographies                                 George Washington

*  George Washington:  First President of the United States - Kent - B WAS

*  General George Washington - video recording

*  George Washington - Schaefer  - B WAS

*  Learning About Leadership from the Life of George Washington - Mosher - B WAS

                                Back to Biographies                                         Roger Williams

*  Finding Providence:  The Story of Roger Williams - Avi - B  WIL

*  Roger Williams and Rhode Island - video recording

                                Back to Top                                                             Science

10A  Inherited/Learned Traits

*  AIMS- October 2004- Gr. 2-4 "inherited traits"- periodical

*  Why Do Geese Fly South in the Winter?  A Book About Migration- Allen-  591.56 ALL

* Lynx- Barrett- 599.75 BAR

* Bobcat- Barrett- 599.75 BAR

*  Flute's Journey:  The Life of a Wood Thrush- Cherry- 598.9 CHE

* Que es la hibernacion?  Crossingham- 591.56 CRO

*  Animal Journeys- DK Vision Videorecording (Gr. K-3)

* The Bald Eagle- Douglas- 929.9 DOU

 * Why Do Bears Sleep All Winter?  A Book About Hibernation- Englar- 599.74

* How do Birds Find Their Way?  Gans -598.252 GAN

* Frogs- Gibbons- 597.8 GIB

*  Hibernation- Hall- 591.56 HAL (Gr. K-3)

* Ant- Hartley- 595.79 HAR

* A Salamander's Life- Himmelman -597.8 HIM (hibernation)

* What is a Mammal?  Kalman- 599 KAL

*  How Birds Fly- Kalman- 573/7 KAL

*  Animals Migrating:  How, When, Where, and Why Animals Migrate- Kanter- 591.56 KAN

*  El autobus magico va contra la corriente: un libro sobre la migracion de los salmones- Krulik- 597.5 KRU- in Magic School Bus section

* Octopuses- Lindeen- 595.56 LIN (K-3)

* Pulpos = Octopuses- Lindeen- 595.56 LIN (Spanish animal book section) - K-3

* Sharks- Lindeen- 597.3 LIN (K-3)

* Sea Turtles- Lindeen- 597.3 LIN (K-3)

* Special Animal Secrets - National Geographic videorecording (K-2)- VHS

Amy's Award*  Cara the Sea Turtle-Tales from the Wild- National Geographic videorecording- VHS

* Polar Prowl: Really Wild Animals- National Geographic videorecording - VHS

*  Swinging Safari: Really Wild Animals- National Geographic videorecording VHS

*  Deep Sea Dive: Really Wild Animals- National Geographic videorecording- VHS

* The Giraffe:  World's Tallest Animal= La jirafa: el animal más alto del mundo- Paige- 599.638 PAI (K-3)

*  Salmon- Schemenauer- 597.5 SCH

* Birds- Stewart- 698 STE

* Reptiles- Theodorou- 597.9 THE

* Mascotas- Watts- 636.088 WAT

Back to Science                             Unit 11 TAKS Review

                                Back to Science                            Unit 12:  Models and Designs

*  AIMS Winter 2006- Gr. 4-5 "build a lever" - periodical

*  AIMS May/June 2005- Gr. 5- "catapult design"- periodical

*  Models - Bliss - 745.5928 BLI

*  Paper Airplanes:  Models to Build and Fly - Kelly - 745.592 KEL

*  Pyramids of Ancient Egypt - Clare -932 PYR

*  The Ultimate Book of Cross-Sections - Dorling Kindersley - REF 629.04 ULT

*  How to Build a Robot - Gifford 629.8 GIF

*  Transportation - Glover REF 629.04 GLO

*  Make Your Own Birdhouses and Feeders - Haus - 690 HAU

Scientific Method

*  AIMS Fall 06 - "Gr. 2-3 microscopes" -periodical

*  Strategies for a Winning Science Fair Project - Henderson - REF 507 HEN

*  How to Think Like a Scientist:  Answering Questions... - 502.8 KRA

What is a Scientist? Lehn

* Science to the Rescue - Markle - 507.8 MAR

*  How to Make Your Science Project Scientific - Moorman - 507 MOO

Car Design

* Models- Bliss- 645.5928 BLI