Essential Question: What role does curiosity play in exploration?
Week 1
A Few Who Dared and Into the Unknown: Above and Below
Reading skill: Make and confirm predictions, review text structure, and review text features
Grammar skill: Prepositions and prepositional phrases
Generative vocabulary: Latin roots -tract, -chrono, and -gress
Reading skill: Make and confirm predictions, review text structure, and review text features
Grammar skill: Prepositions and prepositional phrases
Generative vocabulary: Latin roots -tract, -chrono, and -gress
Week 2
Great Discoveries
Reading skill: Make and confirm predictions and review central idea
Grammar skill: Indefinite, possessive, and interrogative pronouns
Generative vocabulary: Prefixes mega- and sub-, Latin roots ped- and dent-
Reading skill: Make and confirm predictions and review central idea
Grammar skill: Indefinite, possessive, and interrogative pronouns
Generative vocabulary: Prefixes mega- and sub-, Latin roots ped- and dent-
Week 3
The Mighty Mars Rover: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity
Reading skill: Literary elements and text structure
Grammar skill: Verbs "be" and "have"
Generative vocabulary: Latin root terr; Prefixes pro- and anti-
Reading skill: Literary elements and text structure
Grammar skill: Verbs "be" and "have"
Generative vocabulary: Latin root terr; Prefixes pro- and anti-