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Open Court Pacing
Guide for 2008 - 2009 |
| Start August 14 - Sept. 26 | Start September 29 - November 21 | Start December 1 - January 23 | |||||||||
| Unit 1: Cooperation & Competition | Unit 2: Astronomy | Unit 3: Heritage | |||||||||
| Lessons | Selection | Days | Lessons | Selection | Days | Lessons | Selection | Days | |||
| 1 - Aug.18 | Class President | 5 | 1- Sept. 29 | Galileo | 5 | 1 - Dec. 1 | The Land I Lost . . . | 5 | |||
| 2 -Aug.25 | Marble Champ | 5 | 2 - Oct. 6 | Telescopes | 5 | 2 - Dec. 8 | In Two Worlds . . . | 5 | |||
| 3 -Sept.2 | Juggling | 4 | 3 - Oct. 13 | The Heavenly Zoo | 5 | 3 - Dec. 15 | The West Side | 4 | |||
| 4 -Sept.8 | The Abacus Contest | 5 | 4 - Oct. 20 | Circles, Squares . . . | 5 | 4 - Jan. 5 | Love As Strong As . . | 5 | |||
| 5- Sept.15 | S.O.R. Losers | 5 | 5 - Oct. 27 | They Mystery of Mars | 5 | 5 - Jan. 12 | The Night Jouney | 5 | |||
| 6 -Sept.22 | Founders of the . . . | 5 | 6 - Nov. 3 | Stars | 4 | 6 - Jan. 20 | Parmele | 4 | |||
| Flex Days | 2 | 7 - Nov. 17 | Book That Saved Earth | 3 | Flex Days | 0 | |||||
| Flex Days | 3 | ||||||||||
| Reading Lions due 10/10/08 | Reading Lions due 12/05/08 | Reading Lions due 02/06/09 | |||||||||
| Number of Lessons | 6 | Number of Lessons | 7 | Number of Lessons | 6 | ||||||
| Number of Instructional Days | 31 | Number of Instructional Days | 35 | Number of Instructional Days | 28 | ||||||
| Extra Instructional Days | 2 | Extra Instructional Days | 3 | Extra Instructional Days | 0 | ||||||
| Start January 26 -March 20 | Start Mar. 23- June 5 | Not Applicable | |||||||||
| Unit 4: Making a New Nation | Unit 5: Going West | Unit 6: Journeys and Quests | |||||||||
| Lessons | Selection | Days | Lessons | Selection | Days | Lessons | Selection | Days | |||
| 1 - Jan. 26 | …If you Lived… | 5 | 1 - Mar. 23 | Sacagawea's Journey | 5 | 1 | Story of Jumping Mouse | 5 | |||
| 2 - Feb. 2 | The Night the Revelotion Began | 5 | 2 - Mar. 30 | Buffalo Hunt | 5 | 2 | Trapped by the Ice! | 5 | |||
| 3 - Apr. 6 | Journal of Wong Ming… | 4 | 3 | Apollo 11: First Moon Landing | 5 | ||||||
| 3 - Feb. 9 | Midnight Ride of… | 5 | 4 - Apr. 20 | Coming of the Long … | 5 | 4 | When Shimiel Went to Warsaw | 5 | |||
| 4 - Feb. 23 | Declaration of Indep. | 5 | 5-May-04 | Old Yeller and the Bear | 5 | 5 | The Search | 5 | |||
| 5 - Mar. 2 | Master Spy f York… | 5 | 6-May-11 | Bill Picket: Rodeo Ridin' | 5 | 6 | Alberic the Wise | 5 | |||
| 6 - Mar. 9 | Shh! We're Writing | 5 | 7-May-18 | McBroom the Rainmaker | 5 | ||||||
| 7 - Mar. 16 | We, the People | 5 | Flex Days | 9 | |||||||
| Reading Lions due 4/03/09 | Reading Lions due 6/05/09 | ||||||||||
| Number of Lessons | 7 | Number of Lessons | 7 | Number of Lessons | |||||||
| Number of Instructional Days | 35 | Number of Instructional Days | 43 | Number of Instructional Days | |||||||
| Extra Instructional Days | 0 | Extra Instructional Days | 9 | Extra Instructional Days | |||||||
OARS due one week after completion of each unit.
All fifth grade teachers at each site must follow the same pacing. Decide as a grade level how to use "flex" days.