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:   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.

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.