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:   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:  School Holiday (MLK Day)

Tuesday and Wednesday:

Thursday:   Explain the causes and effects of the U.S.-Mexican War and their impact on the United States.

Friday:   Analyze how physical characteristics of the environment influenced population distribution, settlement patterns, and economic activities in the United States.

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.