The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Age 9-11: Concept 3 - Discovery and Survival: Unit 1

Summary of Skills

• Analyze characters and their conflicts. (Language Arts)
• Combine short or incomplete sentences with conjunctions. (Language Arts)
• Compare and contrast information on a topic after reading several passages. (Language Arts)
• Create multiple-paragraph compositions that conclude with a paragraph that summarizes the points. (Language Arts)
• Create multiple-paragraph compositions that establish and support a central idea with a topic sentence in the first paragraph. (Language Arts)
• Create multiple-paragraph compositions that include supporting paragraphs with simple facts, details, and explanations. (Language Arts)
• Create multiple-paragraph compositions that provide an introductory paragraph. (Language Arts)
• Create multiple-paragraph compositions that use correct indention. (Language Arts)
• Create multiple-paragraph compositions that use traditional structures for conveying information. (Language Arts)
• Define figurative language (e.g., simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification) and identify its use in literary works. (Language Arts)
• Draw conclusions or generalizations and support them with textual evidence and experience. (Language Arts)
• Draw facts from a source of information. (Language Arts)
• Edit and revise selected drafts to improve coherence and progression by adding, deleting, consolidating, and rearranging text. (Language Arts)
• Edit writing to ensure appropriate word choice. (Language Arts)
• Evaluate how well his/her own writing achieves its purposes. (Language Arts)
• Exhibit an identifiable voice in personal narratives and stories. (Language Arts)
• Expand vocabulary through reading. (Language Arts)
• Follow multiple-step instructions. (Language Arts)
• Increase reading and writing vocabulary through word study. (Language Arts)
• Make inferences, draw conclusions, make generalizations, and support by referencing the text. (Language Arts)
• Provide a context to enable the reader to imagine the world of the event or experience. (Language Arts)
• Provide insight into why the selected event or experience is memorable. (Language Arts)
• Recognize sentence fragments. (Language Arts)
• Relate ideas, observations, or recollections of an event or experience. (Language Arts)
• Select a focus, an organizational structure, and a point of view based upon purpose, audience, length, and format requirements. (Language Arts)
• Select a focus, organizational structure, and point of view based upon purpose, audience, length, and format requirements. (Language Arts)
• Support judgments about the text using references to the text and prior knowledge. (Language Arts)
• Understand the major ideas and supporting evidence in text. (Language Arts)
• Use a variety of types of sentences, such as compound and complex. (Language Arts)
• Use adjectives and adverbs appropriately to make writing vivid or precise. (Language Arts)
• Use commas and quotation marks correctly when writing direct quotations. (Language Arts)
• Use concrete sensory details in writing. (Language Arts)
• Use descriptive phrases to elaborate upon written ideas. (Language Arts)
• Use oral and written language to present information in a clear, concise manner. (Language Arts)
• Use technology as a tool to gather information. (Language Arts)
• Verify the accuracy of the author's writing by referencing resources. (Language Arts)
• Write to entertain. (Language Arts)
• Write to reflect. (Language Arts)
• Describe the religious aspects of the earliest colonies. (Social Studies)
• Examine government conflicts in the colonies before the Revolutionary War. (Social Studies)
• Understand how the British colonial period created the basis for the development of political self-government and a free-market economic system. (Social Studies)
• Understand the influence of location and physical setting on the founding of the original 13 colonies. (Social Studies)