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:   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:   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