Week of April 8-12, 2024

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

U.S. Constitution: Articles, Ratifying & Summary

Tuesday:   Unit 5:  Early Republic

Early Republic Content Module

Wednesday:   STAAR Reading Test

Staar You Got This Png, Staar Test Png, Staar Sublimation, Staar Test Png - Etsy Israel

Thursday:   Unit 6:  Age of Jackson

The Age of Jackson [ushistory.org]

Friday:   Unit 7:  Westward Expansion (Manifest Destiny)

Manifest Destiny | Summary, Examples, Westward Expansion, & Significance | Britannica

Week of April 1-5, 2024

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.

13 colonies - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help

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

American Revolution - Wikipedia

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)

The US Constitution: Facts about the country's founding document | Live Science

Week of March 4-8, 2024

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.

Week of February 26-March 1, 2024

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)**

Week of February 19-23, 2024

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.

Week of January 29-February 3, 2024

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.

Week of January 22-26, 2024

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

Manifest destiny - Wikipedia

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)

Free Enterprise | PPT

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.

Week of January 15-19, 2024

Monday:   School Holiday (MLK Day)

                                                                    MLK Day of Service | Community Outreach

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.

                                                                    Manifest Destiny | Summary, Examples, Westward Expansion, & Significance | Britannica

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. 

 

 

Week of January 8-12, 2024

 

Welcome Back! The Spring Semester Has Begun!

 

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.

Manifest Destiny | Summary, Examples, Westward Expansion, & Significance | Britannica

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.