Monday:   STAAR Benchmark Science Test

Tuesday:   STAAR Benchmark Social Studies Test

Wednesday:   8th grade students will meet with the high school CTE teachers (Career Tech Education) as they showcase their program and give the students an opportunity to explore the possibility of choosing selected classes for their Freshman year. (after a parent/student meeting with the high school counselors and discussing a graduation plan.)

Thursday:   Students will understand the impact of various types of legislation, including landmark Supreme Court cases. (Study Sheet #10:  Sectionalism on Friday)

https://kera.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/the-fugitive-slave-law-video/becoming-frederick-douglass/

Friday:   Summarize the impact of landmark Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford, as well as legislation related to the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, and Kansas-Nebraska Act.

https://www.history.com/videos/kansas-nebraska-act.   (Summarize historical events prior to the Civil War.)

**Unit 9:  Sectionalism test will be next Wednesday, March 6th.  (End of the 3rd 9 Week Marking Period is March 8th)**

Monday:   School Holiday:  Presidents Day

Tuesday:   Students will understand how political, economic, and social factors led to the growth of sectionalism and the Civil War.   

FYI:  Unit 9:  Sectionalism:  PowerPoint Questions.  Watch the powerpoint video and answer the following questions.  We cannot delay our next unit, Unit 9:  Sectionalism while benchmark testing this Wednesday and Thursday. This assignment is due Friday: 2/23.  Students will have a quiz on Friday over the slides and questions.

Wednesday:   STAAR Benchmark Test (Reading) for 6th,7th ,8th grade

Thursday:   STAAR Benchmark Test (Math) for 6th,7th ,8th grade.  FYI: ** Next week, the 8th STAAR Benchmark Science Test will be on Monday and the 8th STAAR Benchmark Social Studies Test will be Tuesday.**

Friday:   Students will understand the impact of various types of legislation, including landmark Supreme Court cases.

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.