Monday: The student understands the origins and development of the free enterprise system in the United States. Play Monopoly and complete each day’s activity. Each day, students will receive a daily grade for their role and attentiveness in this activity.
Tuesday: The student understands the origins and development of the free enterprise system in the United States. Play Monopoly and complete each day’s activity. Each day, students will receive a daily grade for their role and attentiveness in this activity.
Wednesday: The student understands the origins and development of the free enterprise system in the United States. Last Day: Play Monopoly and complete each day’s activity. Each day, students will receive a daily grade for their role and attentiveness in this activity.
Thursday: Students will update their Reporting Category Chart for all unit exams. Complete Google Form questions.
Friday: 7th/8th Band to Six Flags. Alternate assignments for thos not attending the band trip.
Monday: Sudents will continue to examine the judicial system while focusing on Civic Virtue and our responsibilities as citizens of the United States. (Day 2)
Twelve Angry Mentakes our classes into the jury room as twelve men deliberate to reach a verdict in a murder trial. Through various tensions between jury members in the room, Twelve Angry Men exposes the ugliness of prejudice and flaws in the American justice system. Each day, students will continue to analyze how objective facts are often colored by personal attitudes and experiences. Ultimately, however, the message is a hopeful one; the jurors vote in favor of the defendant, and justice prevails. (Adapted from Fish Tank Learning)
Tuesday: 8th Grade Math STAAR Test
Wednesday: Sudents will continue to examine the judicial system while focusing on Civic Virtue and our responsibilities as citizens of the United States. (Day 3)
Thursday: Students will examine the origins and development of capitalism and the free enterprise system in the United States.
Examine Free Enterprise and Capitalism in the United States then and now. 5 Pillars of Capitalism and Free Enterprise
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 Monday, April 22, which is the day before our Social Studies STAAR Test.
I have repeatedly shared the following with my students: Remember, each day will consist of: Quiz (previous unit), Warm-up, Lesson, Assignment. If you were absent, you are still responsible for all of the unit STAAR Blitz activities. (warm-up, lesson, ASSIGNMENT* quiz).IF NECESSARY, USE THE LESSON POWERPOINT TO HELP ANSWER ANY OF THE ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS! NO EXCUSE FOR FAILING AN ASSIGNMENT! All will be posted by the end of each period except for the DMAC quiz, which you will take when you return to class. (If you need to take a quiz, come in before school.)
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 8: Industrial Revolution and the Reform Movement
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)
Just a reminder of our STAAR Blitz Review. We are reviewing all of our units (1-11), preparing of our Social Studies STAAR test which is on Tuesday 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 DMAC 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. Students are responsible for each day’s activities if they are absent.
Again, each day will consist of: Quiz (previous unit), Warm-up, Lesson, Assignment . Students will need their computer everyday! (Charged and ready to go.) If they are absent, because of the above timeline preparing for the STAAR test, they are still responsible for all of the unit STAAR Blitz activities. (warm-up, lesson, assignment, quiz). All will be posted by the end of each period except for the DMAC quiz, which they will take when they return to class.
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: Unit 10: Civil War Test. Assign Unit 11: Reconstruction PowerPoint questions. Quiz on Wednesday over the powerpoint questions.
Tuesday: Describe the impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments as well as effectiveness of the Freedmen’s Bureau, Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the Compromise of 1877.
Wednesday: Students will address the following problems: 1) How to readmit the southern states back into the Union. 2) How to rebuild the southern economy. 3)How to provide for the basic needs of formerly enslaved people. 4) How to extend citizenship to formerly enslaved people and those most affected the war.
Thursday: Explain the impact of the election of African Americans from the South such as Hiram Rhodes Revels then and now.
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.
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.
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.
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