Fifth Grade “Gateway” Exhibition Requirements

One of my goals for fifth grade students is that they know how to work in an
organized, independent manner to create high quality, meaningful work.
Your final exhibition will prove that you are able to do this.

The following is a list of the 11 projects you must complete for your Third
Trimester “Gateway” Exhibition and the newly instituted homework
requirements.
Requirement Description Timeline
Interest Project Answer your driving question and Ongoing
then show us what you’ve learned. Be
creative with your visual aid. This will
have to be finished at home.
College Project Write letters to three colleges. Make a Now through early May
vocabulary book of college terms.
Make a poster about one of the
colleges. Write a research report about
the college. This will be worked on at
school except for the poster, which
will need to be finished at home.
Detroit Poetry Tour Project Present your “Detroit Poetry Tour” April-May
project, which will include poetry This will be worked on
written about different places in mainly at school and will
Detroit as well as a collection of involve at least one field
informational writing pieces about trip.
these places.
Poetry Book Share the published poetry book that Ongoing
you’ve written during the course of
this year.

Picture Book Students will write and illustrate a May

picture book that is patterned after one This will be introduced at
of the following real books: The Z school but will need to be
Was Zapped, The Secret Knowledge finished at home.
of Grown Ups, Alphabet Riddles,
Night Becomes Day, or If Not for the
Cat. Books will be made available at
school, but can also be checked out
from the library.
OR
Students can write and illustrate a
picture book that is a re-telling of a
famous fairy tale or children’s story.
Author Study Choose a famous author from a list March
provided by your teacher. Complete This will be introduced and
and present an “Author Study.” This worked on SLIGHTLY at
will involve reading at least three of school. Much will be
this author’s books and learning this required at home. Students
person’s biography and other facts are responsible for finding
about them. their own books!
Fifth Grade “Gateway” Exhibition Requirements
Greek Mythology Project After reading several Greek Myths in April
class, complete two projects: an This will be worked on
Ancient Greek “newspaper” involving mainly at school.
at least five of these stories, and either
a short video “re-creation” of one of
the ancient stories OR a video guide to
ten Greek Gods .

Poetry Reading Present a reading (from memory) of a May

Geography Knowledge
favorite poem that you’ve discovered
this school year. Mr. Curran must
approve your poem selections.
Know all 50 states. Be prepared to Ongoing
locate and identify a random selection Students should begin on
of 20 states when shown a map of the this ASAP
United States.

Botany Project Present the results of a long-term April-May

experiment that you conduct at school
involving two plants. Project report
must contain photos, explanation,
observations, a hypothesis, results,
and conclusions.
This will be worked on
mainly at school, but may
need to be completed at
home.

Stock Market Project
HOMEWORK REQUIREMENTS
Students will learn about the stock Mid-March through May
market and create a fantasy stock This will be worked on
portfolio. They will use percentages mainly at school, but may
and decimals as well as computation need to be completed at
skills to track its progress. This will be home.
worked on in school.
In order to pass this exhibition, you Ongoing
must have completed the following for
the third trimester:

• At least 4 reading
letters.
• 80 percent of all Study
Links turned in.
• 80 percent of all
Problems of the Week
turned in.

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