Fifth Grade

September

Respect & Responsibility
​Louisa May Alcott. Little Women. (LA)

October

Diligence (Intellectual Virtue)
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes. (LA)
Prince Henry the Navigator. (WC)
​Leonardo Da Vinci. (WC)
Gutenberg. (WC)
Galileo. (WC)
Peter the Great. (WC)
Daniel Boone. (AC)
Building of Erie Canal. (AC)

“Well begun is half done.”
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“Eureka!”

​“Read between the lines.”

November

Gratitude,Wonder, Appreciation
Emily Dickinson. A Bird Came Down the Walk. (LA)
Walt Whitman. I Hear America Singing. (LA)
Alfred Lord Tennyson. The Eagle. (LA)
Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Snowstorm. (LA)
Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (LA)
Mark Twain. Tom Sawyer (LA)
Thomas Cole. “The Oxbow.” (FA)
Albert Bierstadt “Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak.” (FA)
​Ferde Grofe. Grand Canyon Suite. (M)

December

Beauty & Goodness
Michelangelo. Madonnas and David. (WC and FA)
Raphael. Madonnas. (WC and FA)
Boticelli. Birth of Venus. (FA)
Da Vinci. Mona Lisa. Last Supper. (WC and FA)
Donatello. St. George. (FA)
Kamakura. Buddha. (FA)
​Renaissance madrigals. (M)

January

Courage & Resolution
Julia Ward Howe. Battle Hymn of the Republic. (LA)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. (LA)
Martin Luther. (WC)
Queen Elizabeth I. (WC)
​Lewis and Clark. (AC)
Jedidiah Smith. (AC)
Pioneer experiences on Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. (AC)
The Alamo. (AC)

February

Love of Country, Civil Liberty & Civil Disobedience
Walt Whitman. O Captain! My Captain! (LA)
Langston Hughes. I, Too, Sing America. (LA)
Abraham Lincoln. The Gettysburg Address. (LA)
Glorious Revolution. (WC)
English Bill of Rights. (WC)
Thoreau. “Civil Disobedience.” (AC)
John Brown. Harper’s Ferry. (AC)
Lincoln Douglas Debates. (AC)
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. (AC)
Emancipation Proclamation. (AC)
Sitting Bull. (AC)

March

Compassion & Magnanimity
Bartolome de las Casas. (WC)
​Buddhism. Four Noble Truths. Eightfold Noble Paths. (WC)

April

Humility
​Ernest Lawrence Thayer. Casey at the Bat. (LA)

May

Hope & Understanding
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden. (LA)
​Music of Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong,
Duke Ellington, George Gershwin (M)

“Every cloud has a silver lining.”
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“Count your blessings.”

Honor & Integrity
​Miguel Cervantes. Don Quixote. (LA)