September

Respect
Emily Dickinson. Bee! I’m Expecting You. (LA)
Aileen Fisher. Caterpillar. (LA)
Christina Rossetti. Hurt No Living Thing. (LA)
Carl Sandburg. Buffalo Dusk. (LA)
Auld Lang Syne. (M)

October

Diligence
Labors of Hercules. (LA)
The Trojan Horse. (LA)
Paul Bunyan. (LA)
Johnny Appleseed. (LA)
Pecos Bill. (LA)
The Discus Thrower. (FA)
John Henry (LA, AC, Music)
Sweet Betsy from Pike. (M)
Mercy
Tie in with unit on India.
Beauty and the Beast. (LA)
Buddha. (WC)
Asoka. (WC)
Florence Nightingale. (S)

November

Responsibility & Faithfulness to Country
Tie in with unit on Greece.
Crete and King Minos.
Theseus and the Minotaur. (LA/WC)
Andromeda.
Athenian democracy. Pericles. (WC)
Chagall. I and the Village. (FA)
America. (M)
This Land is Your Land. (M)
Wonder
Harry Behn. Discovery. (LA)
​Clement Moore. The Night Before Christmas. (LA)
Federico Garcia Lorca. Seashell. (LA)
Rachel Field. Something Told the Wild Geese. (LA)
Christina Rossetti. Who Has Seen the Wind? (LA)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Windy Nights. (LA)
James Barrie. Peter Pan.(LA)
Pajaro Cu. (LA)
Pandora’s Box. (LA)
Aristotle. (WC)
Alexander the Great. (WC)
Hokusai. The Great Wave at Kanagawa Nami-Ura. (FA)
Van Gogh. The Starry Night. (FA)
​Thomas Cole. The Oxbow. (FA)

December

Generosity
Dickens. A Christmas Carol. (LA)
Brothers Grimm. The Fisherman and his Wife. (LA)
The Gift of Athena.

January

Courage
Tie in with unit on the Constitution.
James Madison. (AC)
​Dolly Madison. (AC)
Francis Scott Key. (AC)
The Erie Canal.(AC)
Pioneers heading west. (AC)
Harriet Tubman. (AC)
Abraham Lincoln. (AC)
Martin Luther King.(AC)
Alexander the Great. (WC)

February

Citizenship
All men created equal.We the People. (AC)
Abraham Lincoln. Emancipation Proclamation. (AC)
​Immigration unit. (AC)
Rights and responsibilities of citizens. (AC)
Susan B. Anthony. (AC)
Eleanor Roosevelt. (AC)
Martin Luther King. (AC)
Cesar Chavez. (AC)
Aaron Copland. Fanfare for the Common Man. (M)
When Johnny Comes Marching Home. (M)

March

Humility
The Emperor’s New Clothes. (LA)
Inktomi Lost His Eyes.
Dionysus.
Arachne the Weaver. (LA)
​Daedalus and Icarus

April

Hope
We shall Overcome. (M)
Swing Low Sweet Chariot. (M)
​Follow the Drinking Guourd. (M)

May

Wisdom: Knowledge of the Things that Matter
The Blind Men and the Elephant. (LA)
The Gift of Athena. (LA)
Daedalus and Icarus. (LA)
​Oedipus and the Sphinx. (LA)
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. (WC)
Rodin. The Thinker. (FA)
Tis A Gift to be Simple. (M)

June

Lives to Learn From
Clara Barton. (AC)
Jackie Robinson.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
​Jacob Riis.