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Grade 5

• Composition

  • C.5.1
  • C.5.1.a
  • C.5.1.b
  • C.5.1.c
  • C.5.1.d
  • C.5.1.e
  • C.5.1.f
  • C.5.2
  • C.5.2.a
  • C.5.2.b
  • C.5.2.c
  • C.5.2.d
  • C.5.2.e
  • C.5.2.f
  • C.5.2.g
  • C.5.2.h
  • C.5.3
  • C.5.3.a
  • C.5.3.b
  • C.5.3.c
  • C.5.3.d
  • C.5.3.e
  • C.5.3.f
  • C.5.3.g
  • C.5.4
  • C.5.5
  • C.5.6
  • C.5.7

• Language

  • L.5.1
  • L.5.1.a
  • L.5.1.c
  • L.5.1.d
  • L.5.1.e
  • L.5.2
  • L.5.2.b
  • L.5.2.e
  • L.5.3
  • L.5.3.a
  • L.5.3.b
  • L.5.4
  • L.5.4.a
  • L.5.4.b
  • L.5.4.d
  • L.5.5
  • L.5.5.a
  • L.5.5.b
  • L.5.5.c

• Reading: Foundational Skills

  • RF.5.3
  • RF.5.3.a
  • RF.5.4.a
  • RF.5.4.c

• Reading: Informational

  • RI.5.1
  • RI.5.2
  • RI.5.3
  • RI.5.5
  • RI.5.6
  • RI.5.7
  • RI.5.8
  • RI.5.9
  • RI.5.10

• Reading: Literature

  • RL.5.1
  • RL.5.2
  • RL.5.3
  • RL.5.4
  • RL.5.5
  • RL.5.6
  • RL.5.7
  • RL.5.9
  • RL.5.10

KAS ELA Standard: RL.5.3

Compare/contrast characters, settings or events in a story or drama, using specific details to analyze their interaction over the course of the text.

Comparing Characters

Your young students will compare how two characters have changed in a story.

Characters’ Faults Can Also Be Strengths

Strength and weakness are often two sides of the same coin. Students will explore how a character’s flaw can be a benefit.

Comparing Characters’ Bedrooms

What item’s in a character’s bedroom would reflect their deepest desires? And what if they toured a similar character’s room?

A Character’s Playlist

What playlist of songs best goes with a character’s change over time?

Stories with the Same Problems and Solutions

Have you ever noticed that some stories have awfully similar problems? What if we looked for the most unusual way of solving a repeating problem?

Think Like A Historian

Here’s how effects be causes and causes can be effects!

Analyze Characters Using Philosophy

What is the Brick Pig’s philosophy? How would he apply it to the characters in Harry Potter?

Characters Dressed as Other Characters for Halloween

What if one character dressed up as another for Halloween? Would the Cat in the Hat pick Captain Jack Sparrow, because they’re both chaotic yet good-natured people? Would Elsa dress up as The Ice King since they are both lonely?

Virtue or Vice?

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

Writing Sample: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

A passage from “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Writing Sample: Anne of Green Gables

An intriguing passage from Anne of Green Gables to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Do Narrators Have Too Much Power?

Imagine being a character in a story. Are you worried that your story’s narrator may inaccurately describe you? What if they reveal something you wanted to be kept secret? Do narrators have too much power!?

More Specific than “Smart”

When students are told that they’re “smart”, what does this word actually mean to them? (Psst. It isn’t what we intended.)

Content Imperatives: Convergence

Add complexity by considering how multiple factors 🔄 Converge within one topic.

Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity

Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character’s main trait changes across a story.

Characters’ Talents and Multiple Intelligences

How do characters from novels line up with Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences?

Literary Technique: Juxtaposition

Put a grumpy character next to a joyful one and they make each other stand out even more. Opposites are powerful!

Motivation and Moral Development

Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?

“Much Ado About Nothing” Summary

Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!

Hamlet Summary

It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Nothing could possibly go wrong with a love potion on the loose!

Better Stories Part 4: Character Archetypes

Are students’ characters a bit flat? Archetypes give them a strong foundation on which to build their own characters as well as a tool to analyze existing stories.