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 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.

Tuesday:   Explain the causes and effects of the U.S.-Mexican War and their impact on the United States., the annexation of Texas (28th state), Gadsden Purchase (Reason for this purchase). and the Compromise of 1850  in regards to California admittance to the US.

(Vocabualry quiz Tuesday)

Wednesday:   Examine and describe the positive and negative consequences that influenced the settlement patterns and the economic activities; also what (human) modification of the physical environment of the United States helped with Manifest Destiny.

Thursday:   Students will review westward expansion for their test on Friday.

Friday:  Unit 7:  Westward Expansion (Manifest Destiny)  test

Monday:  Martin Luther King, Jr. L Holiday and Inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States.

Tuesday:   Students will review Unit 6: Age of Jackson test and 1st Semester Benchmark. (Assign powerpoint questiona.  quiz on Friday)

Wednesday:   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; also what (human) modification of the physical environment of the United States helped with Manifest Destiny.  Powerpoint questions are due; quiz today.

Monday:   Students will analyze the reasons for the removal and resettlement of Cherokee Indians during the Jacksonian era.   Students will examine American literature and art during the early part of the 19th century. (Exploring American Cultural Icons). This separate assignment will counts as a test grade. Due Friday.

Tuesday:  Students will explain the constitutional issues arising over the issue of states’ rights, including the Nullification Crisis.

Wednesday:  Students will summarize arguments regarding protective tariffs, taxation, and the banking system. (2nd National Bank of the United States)

Thursday:   Unit 6: Age of Jackson Review.  (Powerpoint and questions, Screencastify video, Graphic organizer, notes, vocabulary, Kahoot, Quizlet). Students are encourage to attend a Unit 6:  Age of Jackson morning review at 7:30.  (Must be in the room before 7:30)

Friday:  Unit 6:  Age of Jackson Test.  Assigned artwork (from Monday)  is due today.  (Counts as a test)