— 4th Grade Scope —

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I. Language Arts

Literature

1. Resources

  • The Magician’s Nephew, Lewis
  • Story of Rolf, French
  • King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, Green
  • The Door in the Wall, de Angeli
  • Adam of the Road, Gray
  • Black Beauty, Sewell
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl
  • Knight’s Castle, Eager
  • Robin Hood, Vacca
2. Concepts / Skills
  • Reading comprehension
  • Vocabulary development

Grammar

1. Resources

  • Easy Grammar, Grade 4, Phillips
  • Daily Grams, Grade 4, Phillips
2. Concepts / Skills
  • Sentence Structure and Types
  • 8 Parts of Speech
  • Punctuation
  • Capitalization
  • Basic Diagramming
  • Conjunctions
  • Interjections
Writing
1. Resources
  • Teaching Writing: Structure and Style, Institute for Excellence in Writing
  • Progymnasmata, Steps of Aphthonius
2. Concepts / Skills
  • Step 1 – Fables
  • Step 2 – Narratives
  • Step 3 – Proverbs and Maxims
  • Common Topics
  • Note-taking
  • Re-Telling and story sequence
  • Summarizing
  • Re-Writing
  • Paragraph development
Spelling
1. Resources
  • W.I.S.E. Guide to Spelling; Spell to Read and Write
  • Learning Log
2. Concepts / Skills
  • Mastery of Wise phonograms
  • Mastery of spelling lists and rules
  • Correctly spell age appropriate words in all school work
  • Poetry
  • Beowulf, Anonymous, c. 8th – 11th Centuries
In-Class Read-Alouds
  • Half Magic, Eager
  • Ivanhoe
  • 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Seuss
  • Beowulf

II. Mathematics

A. Resources: Houghton Mifflin
B. Concepts / Skills
  • Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division up to 2-digit whole numbers
  • Prompt and accurate mental math of facts 0-12
  • Accurate use of money
  • Use of standard and metric measurements
  • Estimation of numbers to solve and check problems
  • 3-4 Step word/story problems 
  • Add and subtract common fractions
  • 2-digit division
  • Beginning level of algebra and geometry
  • Applying math skills to other subject areas, e.g. science, history, music, art, etc.
  • Critical thinking skills

III. History

A. Resources
  • Veritas Cards
  • Child’s History of the World, Hillyer
  • Story of the World, vol. 2, Bauer
B. Concepts / Skills
  • Time Period Covered – 386-1550 AD
  • Fall of Rome, Medieval History, Renaissance, Church History, Reformation
  • People/Groups (St. Augustine, Vikings and Barbarians, Monasticism, Marco Polo, Joan of Arc, Henry V, Gutenberg, Henry VIII, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther)
  • Specific Memory Work - History timeline, Beowulf
  • Geography (Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the discovered world)

IV. Bible

A. Resources: Veritas Bible Cards
B. Concepts / Skills
  • Old Testament – Major and Minor Prophets
  • Memory Work (James 3, Westminster Shorter Catechism, Questions # 28-53)

V. Latin

A. Resources
  • Latina Christiana I, II
  • Book of Roots
  • Famous Men of the Middle Ages

VI. Science

A. Resources: Purposeful Design Science : Level IV-Systems, Level V- Changes
B. Concepts / Skills
  • Life Science (Musculoskeletal system, Nervous system, Health and nutrition, Cardiovascular system, Immunity and disease, Digestive system, Respiratory system)

VII. Music

A. Resources
  • Rhythm and Melody Flashcard Kit,
  • Meet the Great Composers, June Montgomery and Maurice Hinson 
  • David E. Knauss Music Curriculum, 
  • Classical Music Experience, Julius H. Jacobson II, M.D.
  • Ready to Use Music Activities Kit, Audrey J. Adair
  • Folk songs, hymns, various octavos 
  • Recorder Fun!, Hal Leonard 
  • Recorders
B. Concepts / Skills
  • Review – Note values, symbols, dynamic signs, singing technique, and sight-singing with Kodaly hand signs
  • New – Italian music terms, listen to music from the Renaissance Period, learn hymns of Martin Luther and other 16th Century hymn writers, listen to Madrigals, learn to play the recorder
  • Grade-Specific Composers (Palestrina, Josquin De Prez, Monteverdi)

VIII. Art

A. Resources
  • Gardener’s Art Through the Ages
  • History of Art for Young People, Janson
  • The Annotated Mona Lisa, Strickland
  • Various internet sites including, but not limited to: Artlex, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, The Getty, NAEA, IAM – International Arts Movement, National Gallery of Art, Smart History
B. Concepts / Skills
  • 2-D to 3-D – Alexander Caulder, Picasso, Henry Ossawa Tanner
  • Values to create form – Paul Cezanne
  • Contour line drawing
  • One point perspective
  • Overlapping and placement
  • Modeling 3-D
  • Self-Portrait
  • Human figure proportions
  • Critique process
  • Critiquing the media – collage
  • Pattern in 2-D design – Karl Blossfeld
  • Personal Symbols/Logos
  • Seascapes – Winslow Homer
  • Color modulation
  • Watercolor techniques
  • Unifying color
  • Introduction to Architecture