TOPICS OF STUDY

2nd NINE WEEKS

READING

Students will participate in reader’s workshop to read and study nonfiction text in order to analyze and apply their understanding of the features of the genre.

SPELLING

The students will continue the spelling program.

WRITING

Students will participate in a writer’s workshop to study and write nonfiction text in order to analyze and apply their understanding of the features of the genre.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Students will participate and study the causes and effects of European colonization in North America. They will be able to explain, from a geographic perspective, when and why people settled in the United States and how people adapted to and modified their environment. The basic economic patterns of early societies in the U.S., including Native Americans and the early European colonists, will be a focus during this unit. Major industries of Colonial America including how the growth of plantations in the Southern colonies caused an increase in slave trade will be studied. Students will be introduced to the government systems of the early European colonies and they will develop an understanding of why those governments were established.

HOMEPAGE

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