Monday:   Analyze how physical characteristics of the environment influenced population distribution, settlement patterns, and economic activities in the 1800s.

**Begin Study Sheet quizzes each Tuesday and Thursday. (Tuesday: Westward Expansion; Thursday: First 3 eras)**

Tuesday:   Examine industrialization in the northern United States and how it influenced the practice of slavery and the plantation system across the southern United States?

Study Sheet Quiz #8 (Tuesday: Westward Expansion and Industrial Revolution Eras)

Wednesday:   Explain reasons for immigration then and now.

Thursday:   Examine the various sections of the United States and the development of  different patterns of economic activity through 1877.

Study Sheet Quiz #7:   (First 3 eras)

Friday:    Understand  traditional historical points of reference in U.S. history through 1877.

Monday:   Students will review westward expansion for their test on Tuesday.

Tuesday:   Unit 7:  Westward Expansion test.  Unit 8:1 Vocabulary assigned.  (Due Thursday/quiz Thursday)

Wednesday:   Describe the positive and negative consequences of human modification of the physical environment of the United States as well as analyzing the effects of physical and human geographic factors such as weather, landforms, waterways, transportation, and communication on major historical events in the United States.

Thursday:   Explain the free enterprise system.  New Innovations,  (Then and now)

Friday:   Expand on the previous study of new Innovations, recalling the creation of new states due to Manifest Destiny and how the beginning of sectionalism in the United States in regards to free and slave states was becoming more apparent and controversial.

Monday:  School Holiday (MLK Day)

Tuesday and Wednesday:

Thursday:   Explain the causes and effects of the U.S.-Mexican War and their impact on the United States.

Friday:   Analyze how physical characteristics of the environment influenced population distribution, settlement patterns, and economic activities in the United States.

Monday:   School Holiday (MLK Day)

                                                                   

Tuesday:   Explain the causes and effects of the U.S.-Mexican War and their impact on the United States.

Wednesday:  Analyze how physical characteristics of the environment influenced population distribution, settlement patterns, and economic activities in the United States.

                                                                   

Thursday:   Students will review westward expansion for their test on Friday.  

Friday:   Unit 7:  Westward Expansion test.  Students are always welcome to come by on test day at 7:30 (our classroom) for a last minute review. 

 

 

 

 

Monday:   Teacher workday

Tuesday:   Students will review 1st Semester Units (1-6)

Wednesday:  Students will analyze the westward growth of the nation, including the Louisiana Purchase and Manifest Destiny as well as explain how the Northwest Ordinance established principles and procedures for orderly expansion of the United States.

Thursday:   Explain the causes and effects of the U.S.-Mexican War and their impact on the United States.

Friday:   Examine and describe the positive and negative consequences that influenced the settlement patterns and the economic activities.

Monday:   Students will analyze their “Student Reporting Categories/ Progress Chart” in reference to Unit 5: Early Republic (Part 2) from last week. Begin examining Unit 6:  Age of Jackson.  (PowerPoint and questions)

Tuesday:  Students will explain the impact of political parties in the early republic and the election of Andrew Jackson, including expanded suffrage, analyze the reasons for the removal and resettlement of Cherokee Indians, as well as explain constitutional issues arising over the issue of states’ rights, including the Nullification Crisis.

Wednesday:   STAAR Benchmark:  Reading

Thursday:   STAAR Benchmark:  Math

Friday:  Finish with Tuesday’s objective and follow up with a review of the Study Sheet for the 1st part of their Semester Exam, beginning Monday.

 

Semester Exam Schedule:

December 18-Social Studies Semester Exam:  Part 1: Study Sheet (Regular school day)

December 19-Social Studies Semester Exam: 

Part 2: Units 1,2,3,4,5,6.   Class Periods: 1,3,5   (Early Release at 12:15)

December 20-Social Studies Semester Exam: 

Part 2: Units 1,2,3,4,5,6.   Class Periods: 2,4,6   (Early Release at 12:15)

Christmas Break:  December 21- January 8

Monday:   Unit 5: (Part 2)  Early Republic Test

Tuesday:   Students will analyze their “Student Reporting Categories/ Progress Chart” in reference to Unit 5: (Part 1) from last week and Part 2 Early Republic test from Monday.

Wednesday:   Explain the impact of political parties in the early republic and the election of Andrew Jackson, including expanded suffrage.

Thursday:   Students will analyze the reasons for the removal and resettlement of Cherokee Indians during the Jacksonian era.

Friday:   Analyze the powers of the national government and state governments in a federal system.

Monday:   Students will examine arguments (Supreme Court decisions)  regarding protective tariffs, taxation, banking system, as well as judicial review.

Assign vocabulary terms. (Assigned Monday, due Wednesday and quiz on Wednesday as well)

Tuesday:   Students will analyze the causes/issues, events, effects, and significance of the War of 1812

Wednesday:   Examine foreign policies of the first 5 presidents and their impact on the early republic.

CHANGE OF PLANS FOR OUR UNIT 5 (Part 2) TEST.  THE TEST WILL BE MONDAY INSTEAD OF FRIDAY

Thursday:  Examine foreign policies of the first 5 presidents and their impact on the early republic. (Study Sheet #5 quiz:  Only over the Early Republic section of our study sheet)

Friday:  Review for Unit 5 (Part 2)  test.  Test has been rescheduled for Monday. 

Monday:   Unit 5: (Part 2)  Early Republic Test

Monday:  Students will summarize arguments regarding protective tariffs, taxation, banking system, as well as judicial review.

 

 

 

Tuesday:   Examine “Free Enterprise” and Laissez-Faire (Shark Tank and Entrepreneurs)

 

Wednesday:  Review for Unit 5 (Part 1) test on Thursday.  (Graphic Organizer, Notes, Kahoot, Quizlet Live)

Thursday:   Unit 5: (Part 1) Early Republic  Test.

Friday:   Students will analyze their “Student Reporting Categories/ Progress Chart” in reference to Unit 5: (Part 1) Early Republic test.

Monday:   Students will describe major domestic problems faced by the leaders of the new republic.  Unit 5:1 Early Republic: Addressing Challenges Vocabulary Terms are assigned today, due Wednesday, and students will have a quiz over the terms Wednesday. (Taxation,  Impressment , Political Party , Foreign Policy , Isolationism , Neutrality, Embargo, Domestic Policy, Protective Tariffs, Republic)

Tuesday:   Students will summarize arguments regarding protective tariffs, taxation, and the banking system.  Research Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton (Background and role in the new government)

Wednesday:   Examine election results from Tuesday.  (Civic Responsibility);  Describe major domestic problems  such as national security, creating a stable economic system, and setting up the court system includingbut not limited to:

• Whiskey Rebellion
• National Security (Establishment of the U.S Army (1784), U.S Navy (1794), U.S. Marines (1798)
• Immigration Issues

Thursday:  Compare and Contrast: (Then and Now:)  Protective Tariffs, taxation, and the banking system.   (Students will research where their personal property comes from and how the 1st administration addressed similar issues we are experiencing today.). https://www.visualcapitalist.com/us-largest-trading-partners-2022/

Friday:   Discuss and analyze a point of view in regards to the students’ knowledge of Veterans Day.