5th grade

Subject: 1 st Quarter 2 nd Quarter 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter
Social
Quarter 1 Standards plus: Quarter 1 & 2 standards plus: Quarter 1, 2 & 3 Standards
Studies
plus:
Civil War
States’ rights and slavery
Abraham Lincoln, Robert
E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant,
Jefferson Davis and Thomas
Jackson
Reconstruction
Historical tools (artifacts,
documents, interviews and
timelines)
America at the turn of the
century
U.S. involvement in World War I
and post World War I America
Great Depression and New Deal
Basic economic concepts
Important places in the U.S.
Citizen’s rights under the U.S.
Constitution
Amendments to the U.S.
Constitution
The “Iron Curtain.”
U.S. efforts to stop communism
(Berlin airlift, the Korean War,
and NATO).
Joseph McCarthy and Nikita
Khrushchev
Cuban Missile Crisis and the
Vietnam War.
Civil Rights movement
Assassinations of President
John F. Kennedy, and
Martin Luther King Jr.
Technologies of television and
space exploration
U. S. involvement in world
events(the Middle East, the
collapse of the Soviet Union, the
Persian Gulf War, and the War
on Terrorism)
Development of the personal
computer and the Internet
Physical features in U.S.
(Grand Canyon, Salton Sea,
Great Salt Lake, and Mojave
Desert)
Man-made places (Chisholm
Trail; Pittsburgh, PA;
Gettysburg, PA; Kitty Hawk,
NC; Pearl Harbor, HI; and
Montgomery, AL)
August, 2011