Reminder:   Each day for 14 days (April 2-22),  students will review the 11 units we have covered this year.   The following is the format we will use until April 22, which is the day before our Social Studies STAAR Test.

• Warm-ups – A warm-up is used at the beginning of class as an opportunity to formally assess their understanding of the day’s identified TEKS and targeted content.  There are 3 sections—matching, questions from the unit, and released STAAR® questions. 
• Lessons – A lesson is a PowerPoint presentation designed to review the most tested content on the Grade 8 Social Studies STAAR®. Each slide provides visuals to aid in your understanding of essential content. (bridge between warm-ups and assignments)  
• Assignments – An assignment is used after the lesson to allow the students an opportunity to practice and reinforce necessary content associated with the day’s identified TEKS and targeted content. 
• Assessment– A quiz will be administered at the beginning of the class period each day covering the previous day’s unit of study.  Then, the next unit will begin with the warm-up, lesson, and assignment.  Each day will begin with a quiz over the previous unit.  You are responsible for each day’s lessons if you are absent.

Monday:   Unit 4 Part 2:  Writing the Constitution

Tuesday:   Unit 5:  Early Republic

Wednesday:   STAAR Reading Test

Thursday:   Unit 6:  Age of Jackson

Friday:   Unit 7:  Westward Expansion (Manifest Destiny)

Monday:   No school

Tuesday:   Complete reporting category chart and introduce STAAR Blitz:  An introduction to the process for our STAAR Review covering units 1-11.  8th Social Studies STAAR test is April 23.  The following is the plan for each day: 

• Warm-ups – A warm-up is used at the beginning of class as an opportunity to formally assess their understanding of the day’s identified TEKS and targeted content.  There are 3 sections—matching, questions from the unit, and released STAAR® questions. 
• Lessons – A lesson is a PowerPoint presentation designed to review the most tested content on the Grade 8 Social Studies STAAR®. Each slide provides visuals to aid in your understanding of essential content. (bridge between warm-ups and assignments)  
• Assignments – An assignment is used after the lesson to allow the students an opportunity to practice and reinforce necessary content associated with the day’s identified TEKS and targeted content. 
• Assessment– A quiz will be administered at the beginning of the class period each day covering the previous day’s unit of study.  Then, the next unit will begin with the warm-up, lesson, and assignment.  Each day will begin with a quiz over the previous unit.  You are responsible for each day’s lessons if you are absent.

Wednesday:  Each day for 14 days (April 2-22),  students will review the 11 units we have covered this year.   

Today’s unit to be covered is Unit 2:  Colonial America.

Thursday:   Each day for 14 days (April 2-22),  students will review the 11 units we have covered this year.   

Today’s unit to be covered is Unit 3:  American Independence

Friday:   Each day for 14 days (April 2-22),  students will review the 11 units we have covered this year.   

Today’s unit to be covered is Unit 4:  Writing the Constitution (Part 1)

Monday:   Unit 10:  Civil War Test.  Assign Unit 11:  Reconstruction PowerPoint questions.  Quiz on Wednesday over the powerpoint questions.

Tuesday:   Describe the impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments as well as effectiveness of the Freedmen’s Bureau, Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the Compromise of 1877.

Wednesday:   Students will address the following problems: 1) How to readmit the southern states back into the Union. 2) How to rebuild the southern economy.  3)How to provide for the basic needs of formerly enslaved people. 4) How to extend citizenship to formerly enslaved people and those most affected the war.

Thursday:   Explain the impact of the election of African Americans from the South such as Hiram Rhodes Revels then and now.

Friday:   Good Friday (No school)

Monday:   Review Sectionalism; State Rights vs. Federal Rights, Lincoln’s election as President of the United States in 1860

Tuesday:  Explain significant military and political leaders as well as major military battles/ events of the Civil War.  Assign the Civil War StoryBoard activity.  Due Friday

Wednesday:  Continue with explaining significant military and political leaders as well as major military battles/ events of the Civil War. (Work on the Civil War StoryBoard. 

Thursday:   Analyze the leadership qualities of President Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)

Friday:   Analyze the leadership qualities of President Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address.(November 19, 1863)

Students will memorize the first 2 paragraphs of the Gettysburg Address for a test grade.  (By next Thursday, March 28)

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

 

IMPORTANT DATES:   STAAR TESTS:

APRIL 10:  READING TEST

APRIL 23:  SOCIAL STUDIES TEST

APRIL 24:   SCIENCE TEST

APRIL 30:  MATH TEST

Monday:   Students will understand the impact of various types of legislation, including landmark Supreme Court cases.

Tuesday:  Students will continue to understand the impact of various types of legislation, including landmark Supreme Court cases.  Review for Unit 9:  Sectionalism test on Wednesday.

https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-dred-scott-decision/

Wednesday:   Unit 9:  Sectionalism Test (DMAC). RESCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY.

Thursday:   Analyze Abraham Lincoln’s ideas about liberty, equality, union, and government as contained in his first inaugural addresses and contrast them with the ideas contained in Jefferson Davis’s inaugural address.

 

Friday:   Explain significant military and political leaders as well as major military battles/ events of the Civil War.

Monday:   STAAR Benchmark Science Test

Tuesday:   STAAR Benchmark Social Studies Test

Wednesday:   8th grade students will meet with the high school CTE teachers (Career Tech Education) as they showcase their program and give the students an opportunity to explore the possibility of choosing selected classes for their Freshman year. (after a parent/student meeting with the high school counselors and discussing a graduation plan.)

Thursday:   Students will understand the impact of various types of legislation, including landmark Supreme Court cases. (Study Sheet #10:  Sectionalism on Friday)

https://kera.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/the-fugitive-slave-law-video/becoming-frederick-douglass/

Friday:   Summarize the impact of landmark Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford, as well as legislation related to the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, and Kansas-Nebraska Act.

https://www.history.com/videos/kansas-nebraska-act.   (Summarize historical events prior to the Civil War.)

**Unit 9:  Sectionalism test will be next Wednesday, March 6th.  (End of the 3rd 9 Week Marking Period is March 8th)**

Monday:   School Holiday:  Presidents Day

Tuesday:   Students will understand how political, economic, and social factors led to the growth of sectionalism and the Civil War.   

FYI:  Unit 9:  Sectionalism:  PowerPoint Questions.  Watch the powerpoint video and answer the following questions.  We cannot delay our next unit, Unit 9:  Sectionalism while benchmark testing this Wednesday and Thursday. This assignment is due Friday: 2/23.  Students will have a quiz on Friday over the slides and questions.

Wednesday:   STAAR Benchmark Test (Reading) for 6th,7th ,8th grade

Thursday:   STAAR Benchmark Test (Math) for 6th,7th ,8th grade.  FYI: ** Next week, the 8th STAAR Benchmark Science Test will be on Monday and the 8th STAAR Benchmark Social Studies Test will be Tuesday.**

Friday:   Students will understand the impact of various types of legislation, including landmark Supreme Court cases.