3rd quarter standards
Language Arts:
Writing
W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
a. Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding
comprehension.
b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
c. Use linking words and phrases (also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of
information.
d. Provide a concluding statement or section
Reading Literature:
RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases both literal and non-literal language as they are used
in the text.
RL5: Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms
such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
RL6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
Reading Information:
RI3: Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps
in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
RI6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
RI8: Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (comparison,
cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence)
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Math
NF1: Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal
parts (unit fraction).
NF2: Understand a fraction as a number on the number line; represent fractions on a number line
diagram.
NF3: Explain equivalence of fractions through reasoning with visual fraction models. Compare fractions
by reasoning about their size.
MD1: Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure elapsed time intervals in minutes. Solve
word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes.
MD2: Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units of grams,
kilograms, and liters. Add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve one-step word problems involving
masses or volumes that are given in the same units.
MD3: Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories.
Solve one- and two-step “how many more” and “how many less” problems using information presented
in scaled bar graphs.
MD4: Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of
an inch. Show the data by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in appropriate
units - whole numbers, halves, or quarters.
MD5: Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.
MD6: Measure areas by counting unit squares (cm, m, in, ft)
MD7: Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
MD8: Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons.
G1: Understand that shapes in different categories may share attributes, and that the shared attributes
can define a larger category.
G2: Partition shapes into parts with equal areas.
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Social Studies
H2: Describe European exploration in North America.
a. Describe the reasons for and obstacles to the exploration of North America.
b. Describe the accomplishments: John Cabot (England), Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spain),
Hernando de Soto (Spain), Christopher Columbus (Spain), Henry Hudson (The Netherlands), and
Jacques Cartier (France).
c. Describe examples of cooperation and conflict between European explorers and American Indians.
H3: Explain the factors that shaped British Colonial America.
Identify key reasons why the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies were founded (religious
freedom and profit)
b. Compare and contrast colonial life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern Colonies
(education, economy, and religion).
c. Describe colonial life in America from the perspectives of various people: large landowners, farmers,
artisans, women, children, indentured servants, slaves, and American Indians.
E3: Give examples of interdependence and trade and explain the benefits of voluntary exchange.
a. Describe the interdependence of consumers and producers.
b. Describe how goods and services are allocated by price in the marketplace.
c. Explain that some goods are made locally, some elsewhere in the country, and some in other countries.
d. Explain that most countries create their own currency for use as money.
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Science
Finish from 2nd quarter:
E1: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the physical attributes of rocks and soil.
E2: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information on how fossils provide evidence of past organisms.
3rd quarter:
L1: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the similarities and differences between plants,
animals, and habitats found within geographic regions (Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont, Coastal Plains,
Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau) of Georgia.
