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5th Grade
The BASIC WRITING for the 5th GRADE is a small group class that provides instruction aligned with California's COMMON CORE State Standards in the following areas:
Active Reading (Reading Comprehension): Students will read and understand 1 novel and multiple short stories, quote accurately from a text when drawing inferences, determine a theme including how characters in a drama respond to challenges, summarize, compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story drawing on specific details (e.g., how characters interact), and describe the function and effect of common literary devices (e.g., imagery, metaphor, symbolism).
Fundamentals of Effective Writing: Students will be writing clear, coherent, and focused essays that introduce a topic clearly, develop the topic with quotations, link ideas using phrases and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially, consequently, specifically), use precise language, and provide a conclusion. Students will be practicing the three writing genres (opinion/persuasive, informative, and narrative) to include at least 500–700 words in each composition.
Vocabulary Development: Students will integrate knowledge of individual words to enhance their writing, use their knowledge of word origins and word relationships, as well as historical and literary context clues, to determine the meaning of specialized vocabulary and explain the figurative and metaphorical use of words in context.
Grammar: For the grammar module of the class, students will learn to identify and use verbs that are often misused, modifiers, prepositional phrases, appositives, independent and dependent clauses.
Some book purchases will be necessary. Students can expect homework and weekly quizzes. Grades will be given.
E05A STRUCTURED WRITING (5th Gr)
June 17–July 12 (4 weeks)*
*July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class)
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 3:30–5:30pm STARK
In BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER'S APPLIED MATH for the 5th GRADE, students will increase their facility with the four basic arithmetic operations applied to fractions, decimals, and positive and negative numbers. They will learn and use common measuring units to determine length and area and learn and use formulas to determine the volume of simple geometric figures. Students will learn the concept of angle measurement and use a protractor and compass to solve problems along with learn to use grids, tables, graphs, and charts to record and analyze data. This group class is designed to provide instruction aligned with California's COMMON CORE State Standards including extensive emphasis on word problems and critical thinking involving estimation, statistics, probability, data analysis and geometry. This class involves lectures, weekly quizzes, a mid-term and final exam. Homework will be assigned.
M50A APPLIED MATH (5th Gr)
June 17–July 12 (4 weeks)*
*July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class)
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 1:20‐3:20pm M. JELNICK
The BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER's PUBLIC PRESENTATION aims to develop students' skills and confidence in the areas of public speaking, debate and oral presentations. This course includes description, demonstration and analysis of effective speaking techniques, including the use of visual aids. Language work includes a review of academic vocabulary common in spoken presentations. Students will prepare and present at least fifteen talks for both descriptive and persuasive purposes, receive in-class feedback and are regularly videotaped for self-evaluation and individual tutorials. Public Presentation will cover both logic and argumentation as well as the fundamentals of effective public speaking: preparation, pace, tone, facial and vocal expressiveness, and anxiety management.
P09A PUBLIC PRESENTATION 1 (5th–6th Grades)
June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)*
*July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:20–3:20pm STARK