5th Grade Journeys

5.1: School Spirit!

• A Package for Mrs. Jewls by Louis Sachar• Ultimate Field Trip 5: Blasting Off to Space Academy by Susan E.

Goodman• Off and Running by Gary Soto• Double Dutch: A Celebration of Jump Rope, Rhyme, and Sisterhood

by Veronica Chambers• Elisa’s Diary by Doris Luisa Oronoz

BIG IDEA: We never stop learning.

5.2: Wild Encounters

• Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles by Kathryn Lasky

• Old Yeller By Fred Gipson• Everglades Forever: Restoring America’s Great Wetland by Trish

Marx• Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone• Cougars by Patricia Corrigan

BIG IDEA: Nature deserves our respect.

5.3: Revolution

• Dangerous Crossing by Stephen Krensky• Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George? By Jean Fritz• They Called Her Molly Pitcher by Anne Rockwell• James Forten by Walter Dean Myers• We Were There, Too! by Phillip Hoose

BIG IDEA: History is made by individuals.

5.4: What’s Your Story

• Lunch Money by Andrew Clements• LAFFF By Lensey Namioka• The Dog Newspaper by Peg Kehret• Darnell Rock Reporting by Walter Dean Myers• Don Quixote and the Windmills by Eric A. Kimmel

BIG IDEA: Everyone has a story to tell.

5.5: Under Western Skies

• Tucket’s Travels by Gary Paulsen• The Birchbark House By Louise Erdrich• Vaqueros: America’s First Cowboys by George Ancona• Rachel’s Journal by Marissa Moss• Lewis and Clark by Conrad Stein

BIG IDEA: Our country is always changing.

5.6: Journeys to Discovery• Animals on the Move

– Skywoman’s Resuce• Poetry – The Whale / Wild Geese

• Mysteries at Cliff Place– Cave of the Crystals

• Poetry – A Traveler’s Guide / Los Libros Books• Fossils: A Peek Into the Past

– Trapped in Tar!• Poetry – Journey of the Wooly Mammoth

• The Case of the Missing Deer– Fossil Fish Found!

• Poetry – Encounter / Deep in the Forest• Get Lost! The Puzzle of Mazes

– Journey to Cuzco• Poetry – The Best Paths / Compass

BIG IDEA: Discovery takes many paths.