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:   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 examine and evaluate the impact of reform movements, including educational reform, temperance, the women’s rights movement, prison reform, the labor reform movement, religious influences and care of the disabled during the 1800s.

Tuesday:  Continue with Monday’s objective and activity.  (Religion, Prison and Mental Health, Temperance, Education, Women, Abolition, Transcendentalism, and Civil Disobedience. ). Review for Unit 8 Part 2:  Reform Movement Test on Wednesday. 

Wednesday:   DMAC Test:  Unit 8:  Reform Movement (This is part 2 of the Industrialization Era)

Thursday:   Students will complete their Reporting Category Chart for both of the Unit 8 tests.

Friday:   School Holiday.

 

Monday:  Students will examine and evaluate the impact of reform movements, including educational reform, temperance, the women’s rights movement, prison reform, the labor reform movement, religious influences and care of the disabled during the 1800s.

Tuesday:   Students will Identify examples of American art, music, and literature that reflect society in different eras such as the Hudson River School artists, the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and transcendental literature.

Wednesday:   Review Unit 8:  Industrialization and Reform Era for Thursday’s test.

 Thursday:   Test:  Unit 8:  Industrialization and Reform Era.

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

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.

1st 9 Weeks Test is Wednesday covering Units 1,2,3.

Monday:   Students will review information covered this 9 weeks:  Unit 1:  Thinking like a Historian and Unit 2:  Colonial America.

Tuesday:   Students will review information covered this 9 weeks:  Unit 3:  American Independence

Wednesday:   1st 9 Weeks Exam

Thursday:   Students will complete their Reporting Categories chart.  (Examine and discuss 1st 9 Weeks Test.  Students will take ownership in their learning by examining the questions and analyzing students’ strenghts and areas of concern on  each test. The following categories are tested on each unit exam as well as on the STAAR test in April. 

Reporting Category 1 (Demonstrate an understanding of issues and events in U.S. History)

Reporting Category  2 (Demonstrate an understanding of geographic and cultural influences on historical issues and events)

Reporting Category 3   (Demonstrate an understanding of the role of government and the civic process on historical issues and events)

Reporting Category 4 (Demonstrate an understanding of economic and technological influences on  historical issues and events)

Friday:  Introduce Unit 4:  Address the creation and the adoption of the United States Constitution including a study of ideas and compromise.