Week of April 14-18, 2025

Monday:   Each day for 10 days (March 31-April 14),  students will review the 11 units we have covered this year.   Today’s last unit to be covered is Unit 10:  Day 10 STAAR® Blitz: Civil War and Reconstruction

The American Civil War for Kids | Teaching Wiki | Twinkl USA

Reconstruction | Definition, Summary, Timeline & Facts | Britannica

Tuesday:   8th Grade Science STAAR Test

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Wednesday:   8th Grade Social Studies STAAR Test

State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness - Wikipedia

Thursday:  Students will examine the origins and development of capitalism and the free enterprise system in the United States.

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Friday:

The Goodness of Good Friday | The Road Less Traveled

Week of April 7-11, 2025

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

Week of March 31-April 4, 2025

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

Week of March 24-28, 2025

Monday:  Students will review Unit 10: Civil War

Tuesday:   Unit 10:  Civil War Test and assign Unit 11:  Reconstruction PowerPoint questions

Wednesday:  Students will 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.

Thursday:  Students will be able to address the problems and the impact of these problems on different groups and how political and social divisions formed.

Friday:   Students will explain the impact of the election of African Americans from the South such as Hiram Rhodes Revels then and now.  https://www.britannica.com/video/who-was-Hiram-Revels/-269797