8) History. The student understands individuals, issues, and events of the Civil War. The student is expected to:
(A) explain the roles played by significant individuals during the Civil War, including Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, and heroes such as congressional Medal of Honor recipients William Carney and Philip Bazaar;
(B) explain the central role of the expansion of slavery in causing sectionalism, disagreement over states’ rights, and the Civil War;
(C) explain significant events of the Civil War, including the firing on Fort Sumter; the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg; the Emancipation Proclamation; Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House; and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; and
(D) analyze Abraham Lincoln’s ideas about liberty, equality, union, and government as contained in his first and second inaugural addresses and the Gettysburg Address and contrast them with the ideas contained in Jefferson Davis’s inaugural address.
STAAR Blitz: Each day for 10 days (March 31-April 14), students will review the 11 units we have covered this year. This review is to prepare our students for the Social Studies STAAR Test on April 16. Each day will consist of the following: Warm Up, Lesson, Assignment.
Monday: Today’s unit to be covered is Unit 7: Westward Expansion (Manifest Destiny
Tuesday: STAAR Reading Test (Grades 6,7,8)
Wednesday: Today’s unit to be covered is Unit 8: Industrial Revolution (Part 1)
Thursday: Today’s unit to be covered is Unit 8: Reform Movement (Part 2)
Friday: Today’s unit to be covered is Unit 9: Sectionalism
STAAR Blitz: Each day for 10 days (March 31-April 14), students will review the 11 units we have covered this year. This review is to prepare our students for the Social Studies STAAR Test on April 16. Each day will consist of the following: Warm Up, Lesson, Assignment. There will be a quiz over previous day’s unit at the beginning of the period; assignment assessment at the end of the period.
Monday: Complete reporting category chart and introduce STAAR Blitz.
Tuesday: Today’s unit to be covered is Unit 2: Colonial America
Wednesday: Today’s unit to be covered is Unit 3: American Independence
Thursday: Today’s unit to be covered is Unit 4: Writing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Friday: Today’s unit to be covered is Unit 5: Early Republic: Assessing Challenges
Monday: 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.
Tuesday: Explain significant military and political leaders as well as major military battles/ events of the Civil War. (Students will create a storyboard depicting the major events and leaders of the American Civil War. The storyboard should include six panels. Each panel should include an illustration and explanation of the importance of the illustrated event or leader. Due Friday. Due date has been changed to Monday, March 24)
Wednesday: Students will work on their StoryBoard.
Thursday: Explain significant events of the Civil War, including the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation.
Friday: Analyze both the Gettysburg Address(total of 271 words) and Lincoln’s second inaugural address.
Students will memorize a portion of the Gettysburg Address for a test grade. (By next Thursday, March 27)
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. (30 words)
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. (64 words)
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. (102 words)
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. (271 words)
Monday: Students will understand how political, economic, and social factors led to the growth of sectionalism and the Civil War. ** Test over Unit 9: Sectionalism on Friday**
Tuesday: Examine the impact of landmark Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, and Kansas-Nebraska Act. (Summarize historical events prior to the Civil War.)
Wednesdsay: Mock STAAR Algebra I Test (Benchmark Test). Remainder of students: Sectionalism map and chart. Review for Unit 9: Sectionalism test on Friday
Thursday: Mock STAAR Math Test (Benchmark Test). All grades
Monday: Unit 8: Test Reform Movement (This is part 2 of the Industrial Revolution Era). Since we will not be in class Tuesday and Wednesday (Mock STAAR tests), students will be assigned Unit 9: Sectionalism Powerpoint and questions. Due Friday/Quiz Friday over powerpoint and questions.
Tuesday: Mock STAAR Science Test
Wednesday: Mock STAAR Social Studies Test
Thursday: Students will understand how political, economic, and social factors led to the growth of sectionalism and the Civil War.
Friday: Examine the impact of landmark Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford, as well as the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, and Kansas-Nebraska Act. Quiz over the powerpoint and questions which were assigned Monday.
