Curriculum / ELA / 5th Grade / Unit 1: Building Community: Seedfolks / Lesson 16
ELA
Unit 1
5th Grade
Lesson 16 of 17
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Write your own chapter in Seedfolks by using a narrative structure to develop imagined experiences based on the events of the text.
Book: Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
Rubric: Grade 5 Narrative Writing Rubric
Template: Narrative Brainstorming Template
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Imagine that you lived in the community where Seedfolks takes place. Write a chapter from your point of view. Make sure to include your point of view in the plot and your interactions with other characters.
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L.5.1.a — Explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general and their function in particular sentences.
L.5.2.b — Use a comma to separate an introductory element from the rest of the sentence.
W.5.3 — Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
W.5.3.a — Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
W.5.3.c — Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.
W.5.5 — With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
L.5.6 — Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition).
SL.5.1 — Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL.5.6 — Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, using formal English when appropriate to task and situation.
W.5.4 — Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1—3 above.)
W.5.10 — Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Lesson 15
Lesson 17
Predict if the actions of one person can influence an entire community.
RL.5.6
Explain how the vacant lot sparks Kim’s and Ana’s memories of the past and if the memories are the same.
L.5.1.a RL.5.3 RL.5.6
Compare and contrast Wendell and Gonzalo’s uncle’s reaction to the garden.
Compare and contrast how the garden influences Leona with how others are influenced by the garden.
L.5.1 RL.5.3 RL.5.6
Describe Sam's perspective on the garden and how his perspective changed.
RL.5.3 RL.5.6
Writing
Write a paragraph that explains how one person can impact a community.
W.5.1 W.5.1.a W.5.1.d
Describe how the garden was a both a positive and negative experience for Virgil and his father.
RL.5.3
Explain why the garden feels like a family to Sae Young.
L.5.3.b RL.5.3 RL.5.6
Explain the significance of the quote "we, like our seeds, were now planted in the garden" and who is responsible for the change.
Write a paragraph that describes how one person can impact a community.
W.5.1 W.5.1.a W.5.1.c W.5.1.d
Analyze if the narrators in Seedfolks would agree or disagree with the idea that people with different cultural identities can come together to form a strong community.
RL.5.2 RL.5.3
Determine a theme for a story and explain how the characters’ actions support the development of theme, by using key details and character actions to describe key themes in a text.
Discussion
Describe the overall structure of Seedfolks and how different events fit together to create the plot, by describing the overall structure of a text.
L.5.3.b RL.5.5 SL.5.1 SL.5.1.a SL.5.1.b SL.5.6
Writing – 3 days
Write a paragraph to explain how one person can impact a community.
L.5.1.a L.5.2.e RL.5.2 RL.5.3 W.5.1.a W.5.1.c W.5.1.d
Assessment
Writing – 4 days
L.5.1.a L.5.2.b W.5.3 W.5.3.a W.5.3.c W.5.5
Writing – 5 days
Conduct a short research project that uses several sources to build knowledge of different aspects of a topic.
W.5.2 W.5.2.a W.5.2.b W.5.2.c W.5.7 W.5.8
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