Overall GPS:
· SS4H3: British Colonial America: The student will explain the factors that shaped British
colonial America.
Task 1:
· SS4H3.a: Compare and contrast life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern
colonies.
· ELA4R1.a: Informational Texts: Locates facts that answer the reader's questions.
· ELA4W3.a: Research and Technology: Acknowledges information from sources.
. ELACC4W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and
information clearly.
. ELACC4W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and
organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Task 2:
· S4P3a Simple Machines: Identify simple machines and explain their uses (lever, pulley,
wedge, inclined plane, screw, wheel and axle).
· ELA4R1.a: Informational Texts: Locates facts that answer the reader's questions.
· ELA4W2.c: Informational Writing: Creates an organizing structure appropriate to a
specific purpose, audience, and context.
· ELA4W2.d: Informational Writing: Includes appropriate facts and details
· ELA4W2.e: Informational Writing: Excludes extraneous details and inappropriate
information
· ELA4W3.a: Research and Technology: Acknowledges information from sources.
Task 3:
· 4NBT5: Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and
multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and the properties
of operations. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays,
and/or area models.
· 4MD3: Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world
and mathematical problems.
· ELA4LSV1.i: Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Responds appropriately to comments
and questions
· ELA4LSV1.k: Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Gives reasons in support of opinions
expressed.
Task 4:
· ELA4R1.a: Informational Texts: Locates facts that answer the reader's questions.
· ELA4W3.a: Research and Technology: Acknowledges information from sources.
· ELA4W2.a: Narrative Writing: Engages the reader by establishing a context, creating a
point of view, and otherwise developing reader interest.
· ELA4W2.b: Narrative Writing: Establishes a plot, setting, and conflict, and/or the
significance of events.
· ELA4W2.c: Narrative Writing: Creates an organizing structure.
· ELA4W2.d: Narrative Writing: Includes sensory details and concrete language to
develop plot and character.
· ELA4W2.e: Narrative Writing: Excludes extraneous details and inconsistencies.
· ELA4W2.h: Narrative Writing: Provides a sense of closure to the writing
· ELA4C1.c: Conventions: Uses and identifies correct mechanics (end marks, commas for
series, capitalization), correct usage (subject and verb agreement in a simple sentence),
and correct sentence structure (elimination of sentence fragments).
· SS4H3.b: Describe colonial life in America as experienced by various people, including
large landowners, farmers, artisans, women, indentured servants, slaves, and Native
Americans.
Task 5:
. VA4CU.2b: Discusses how social events inspire art from a given time period.
. VA4PR.1: Creates artworks based on personal experience and selected themes.
. VA4PR.1e: Creates representational art works from direct observation (e.g., landscape,
still life, portrait.)
. ELACC4W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and
organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
· SS4H3: British Colonial America: The student will explain the factors that shaped British
colonial America.
Task 1:
· SS4H3.a: Compare and contrast life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern
colonies.
· ELA4R1.a: Informational Texts: Locates facts that answer the reader's questions.
· ELA4W3.a: Research and Technology: Acknowledges information from sources.
. ELACC4W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and
information clearly.
. ELACC4W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and
organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Task 2:
· S4P3a Simple Machines: Identify simple machines and explain their uses (lever, pulley,
wedge, inclined plane, screw, wheel and axle).
· ELA4R1.a: Informational Texts: Locates facts that answer the reader's questions.
· ELA4W2.c: Informational Writing: Creates an organizing structure appropriate to a
specific purpose, audience, and context.
· ELA4W2.d: Informational Writing: Includes appropriate facts and details
· ELA4W2.e: Informational Writing: Excludes extraneous details and inappropriate
information
· ELA4W3.a: Research and Technology: Acknowledges information from sources.
Task 3:
· 4NBT5: Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and
multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and the properties
of operations. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays,
and/or area models.
· 4MD3: Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world
and mathematical problems.
· ELA4LSV1.i: Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Responds appropriately to comments
and questions
· ELA4LSV1.k: Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Gives reasons in support of opinions
expressed.
Task 4:
· ELA4R1.a: Informational Texts: Locates facts that answer the reader's questions.
· ELA4W3.a: Research and Technology: Acknowledges information from sources.
· ELA4W2.a: Narrative Writing: Engages the reader by establishing a context, creating a
point of view, and otherwise developing reader interest.
· ELA4W2.b: Narrative Writing: Establishes a plot, setting, and conflict, and/or the
significance of events.
· ELA4W2.c: Narrative Writing: Creates an organizing structure.
· ELA4W2.d: Narrative Writing: Includes sensory details and concrete language to
develop plot and character.
· ELA4W2.e: Narrative Writing: Excludes extraneous details and inconsistencies.
· ELA4W2.h: Narrative Writing: Provides a sense of closure to the writing
· ELA4C1.c: Conventions: Uses and identifies correct mechanics (end marks, commas for
series, capitalization), correct usage (subject and verb agreement in a simple sentence),
and correct sentence structure (elimination of sentence fragments).
· SS4H3.b: Describe colonial life in America as experienced by various people, including
large landowners, farmers, artisans, women, indentured servants, slaves, and Native
Americans.
Task 5:
. VA4CU.2b: Discusses how social events inspire art from a given time period.
. VA4PR.1: Creates artworks based on personal experience and selected themes.
. VA4PR.1e: Creates representational art works from direct observation (e.g., landscape,
still life, portrait.)
. ELACC4W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and
organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.