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:   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.

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 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.