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Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will review civics in preparation for the final exam and state testing.

Flashback – Describe the duties of the 3 branches of our government.

Activities -

• Hall Harbor website – Do the Civics review questions

• Brain Pop – watch the following films & take review quizzes ( Be sure to have a set of headphones)
• Declaration of Independence
• Democracy
• US Constitution
• Citizenship
• Branches of Government
• Bill of Rights
• Court System
• Supreme Court
• How a Bill Becomes a Law

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will review the Washington administration through the Grant administration in preparation for the final exam and state testing.

Flashback – Describe the culture of the Aztecs using at least 3 characteristics.

Activities -

• Do study quizzes from Chapter 8 through Chapter 17
• Watch as many of the following Brain Pop videos and do the review quizzes
• James Madison
• George Washington
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• Trail of Tears
• Mexican-American War
• Gold Rush
• Civil War Causes
• Civil War

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Learning Target – Today we will take the 8th grade US History final exam.

Flashback – What was Manifest Destiny?

Activities -

• The test will consist of 75 questions covering all material since the Christmas break.  This is civics through the study of Economics we have studied the past week.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Learning Target – Today we will review for the K-Prep test.

Activities -

• Brain Pop – Do the following Brain Pop Activities – You will be able to view them till 4:30 pm at home
• Athens
• Aztec Civilization
• Christopher Columbus
• Columbian Exchange
• Egyptian Pharaohs
• Fall of Roman Empire
• Feudalism
• French Revolution
• Greek Gods
• Magna Carta
• Maya Civilization
• Middle Ages
• Pax Romana
• Roman Republic
• Sumerians

Friday, May 4,  2012

Learning Target –

Flashback –

Activities -

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Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about how Reconstruction came to an end.

Flashback – What are the 6 characteristics of culture?

Activities -

• Complete reading and discussing Chapter 23 – History Alive
• Vocab, Foldable, Questions are due on Tuesday

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Learning Target – Today will learn about the basics of Economics

Flashback – What were at least 3 causes of the Civil War?

Activities -

• Read Chapters 1 & 2 of Economics Book in class (quiz over materia 1-5l on Thursday)

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Learning Target – Today we will learn about the economics systems under capitalism, communism, and socialism.

Flashback –

Activities -

• Flashback Quiz over 13-14-15
• Read in Economics book chapters 3 – 5

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Learning Target – Today we will learn about America and Free Enterprise

Flashback –

Activities -

• Brain Pop – Supply and Demand
• Quiz over chapters 3 -5
• Read chapters 6 & 7 – discussion

Friday, April 27, 2012

Learning Target – Today we will learn about Money, Banking & Investment

Flashback –

Activities -

• Flashback quiz – Chapters 16-17-Economics (through chapter 7)
• Read Chapters 9 & 10 – discussion

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Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about the strenghts and weaknesses of both sides in the Civil War as well as some of the early battles.

Flashback – In the American Revolution, why was guerrilla ware effective against the British?

Activities -

• PowerPoint Notes – Sections 1 – 2 Chapter 16
• Flashback quiz over chapters 7-8-9 on Tuesday

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about the Emancipation Proclamation and life during the Civil War.

Flashback – Why were the border states important to the North during the Civil War?

Activities -

• Flashback quiz over chapters 7-9 (20 questions)
• PowerPoint Notes – Sections 3-4 – Chapter 16

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about how the Civil War came to a conclusion.

Flashback –  How did northern abolitionists react to the the Fugitive Slave Act?

Activities -

• PowerPoint Notes – - Section 5
• Film – “The Civil War”
• Chapter 16 Test on Wednesday

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will test our knowledge of the  the Civil War.

Flashback –  Identify the reasons that Gettysburg and Visksburg were important battles.

Activities -

• Chapter 16 Test
• Do Definitions, Foldable, Questions for Chapter 17 (Due Tuesday)

Friday, April 20, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today will will learn about the era after the Civil War called Reconstruction begain and how there was the Presidential Reconstructions and Congressional Reconstruction.

Flashback – How did Union’s victory strengthen the federal government?

Activities -

• Flashback quiz over chapters 10-12
• History Alive (preview 23)
• History Alive – Read 1st 3 sections of Chapter 23 in class and discuss

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Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will begin to learn about the issues that divided the US before the Civil War.  We will begin by learning about the Missouri Compromise.

Flashback – Why did the first people come to the Americas?

Activities -

• Preview 21 (History Alive)
• Read in class 21.1
• Activity – North & South
• Phase 1: The Missouri Compromise – Reading sections 21.2. & 21.3 to answer questions in reading notes.
• Homework – Read page 436 – 444 in US History Book – Begin working on :
• Foldable – Chapter 15
• Vocabulary – Chapter 15
• Chapter questions – Chapter 15
• Flashback quiz over chapters 1-3 on Tuesday

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will continue to learn about the issues that divided the US by learning about The Compromise of 1850 and The Dred Scott Decision.

Flashback – Who were the first Europeans to reach the Americas and when did they arrive?

Activities -

• Flashback quiz over chapters 1-3 (20 questions)
• History Alive – Phase 2 – The Compromise of 1850
• History Alive – Phase 3 – The Dred Scott Decision
• Homework – Read in US History book page 445 – 453 (continue working on other material due on Thursday)

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about the election of 1860 and the secession of the southern states.

Flashback –  How did New England’s natural resources help it’s commerce?

Activities -

• History Alive – Phase 4 – Secession
• Do Processing 21 for homework
• Film – United Streaming – “Causes of the Civil War”

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will test our knowledge of the causes of the Civil War and begin a study of the war itself.

Flashback – What did the British hope to gain by issuing the Proclamation of 1763?

Activities -

• Chapter 15 / 21 (History Alive) Test
• Check -  Reading notes, vocab, foldable, Ch 15 Questions
• Homework – Read page 460 – 472 in US History Book – Begin working on :
• Foldable – Chapter 16
• Vocabulary – Chapter 16
• Chapter questions – Chapter 16

Friday, April 13, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today will will learn about how the Civil War began and some of it’s early battles

Flashback – How did the British government use the colonies to raise revenue?  Why did this anger colonist?

Activities -

• Flashback quiz over chapters 4 – 6 (20 questions)
• Preview 22 (History Alive) read 22.1
• Students will learn how the Civil War
  affected civilians and soldiers in the Union and
  Confederacy by experiencing six important events from the war.

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Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about social reform and the abolitionists between 1820 and 1860.

Flashback – Describe “Manifest Destiny”

Activities -

• Take up Open Response Questions about the people and economy of the North and South.
• Quiz over Sections 3-4 of Chapter 13
• Read Section 1 – Chapter 14 in class
• PowerPoint Notes over section 2 – The Abolitionists
• Quiz over Section 1 -2 Chapter 14 on Wednesday

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Reality Store

Program at High School

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about The Woman’s Movement between 1820 and 1860.

Flashback –  Describe Andrew Jackson’s reasons for wanting to kill the Bank of the United States.

Activities -

• Quiz over section 1-2 – Chapter 14
• Read in class  page 425 – 428
• Check for Chapter 13 – 14 definitions

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will review what we have learned in chapters 13 and 14.

Flashback – What do you think was the most important reason for establishing a strong central government under the Constitution?

Activities -

• Quiz over section 3 – Chapter 14
• Complete Chapter 14 Worksheets

Friday, March 30, 2012

Reward day for 8th grade

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Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about how the United States would add the California and Utah territories to the country as a whole as part of “manifest destiny”

Flashback – Describe the improvements in transportation in the United States in the early 1800′s

Activities -

• Check chapter 12 Worksheets
• Read and discuss section 4 of Chapter 12
• Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Learning Target – Today the students will learn about the Reality Store

Activities – Reality Store with Mrs. Sturm

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will test our knowledge of “Manifest Destiny”

Flashback – Describe what Lewis and Clark were to do on their expedition.

Activities -

• Chapter 12 Test
• Check chapter 12 – Questions, Foldable, Flashbacks, Reading Notes, Vocabulary
• Read in US History Book  – Chapter 13 – Sections 1-2
• Homework – Guided Reading Sections 1-2 – Due on Thursday

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about the people and the economy of the North before the Civil War.

Flashback – Describe the difference between subsistance farming and cash crop farming.

Activities -

• PowerPoint Notes – Section 1-2 of Chapter 13
• Check Homework
• HW – Read sections 3-4 of Chapter 13
• HW – Guided Reading – Sections 3-4 – Due Friday

Friday, March 23, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about the people and economy of the South.

Flashback – Describe the improvements in transportation in the United States in the early 1800′s

Activities – What were some of the new inventions / technology that allowed for the “Age of Exploration”

• Quiz over Chapter 13 – Sections 1-2
• PowerPoint notes – Chapter 13 – Sections 3-4
• Take up Homework
• Open Response question for homework – Open Response – Ch 13 – The North and the South

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Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about how the United States would add territory to the United States through their belief in “manifest destiny”.

Flashback – Describe the improvements in transportation in the United States in the early 1800′s

Activities -

• History Alive Reading Notes – Situation 1 – Situation 4
• Read in US History Book page 362 – 368

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about how Texas became an independent republic and how the United States aquired it through the war with Mexico.

Flashback – What were some of the reasons for the United States going to war with Great Britain in 1812?

Activities -

• United Streaming film – “Texas Independence and the War with Mexico”
• Quiz over sections 1-2 in Chapter 12

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn more about how the United States aquired more land in the mid 1800′s.

Flashback – Describe the culture of one group of people we have studied in class this year. Use at least 4 characteristics.

Activities

• Assign Chapter 12 Reteaching Assignment to do in class – Check in class
• When finished, continue work on History Alive Reading Notes
• Read Pge 369 – 372 in US History book

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Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will review about the “Age of Jackson”

Flashback – List three responsibilitites of the President of the United States

Activites -

• • Page 352 – 353 – Questions #1 24 (To be turned in by the end of class)  Please take up. (yes, they are to do as # 1 – 7 says except don’t share with a classmate)
  • Chapter 11 foldable completed for Tuesday
  • All questions throughout chapter 11 completed for Tuesday
  • Vocabulary for chapter 11 done for Tuesday

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will test our knowledge about the “Age of Jackson”

Flashback – Explain why the French did not publicly support the American until after the Battle of Saratoga.

Activities -

• Chapter 11 Test
• Check Foldable, Questions, Vocabulary, Reading Notes from History Alive!
• Begin work on Chapter 12 Foldable, Questions, Vocabulary

Wednesday March 7, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about the “Manifest Destiny” of the United States and what that meant.

Flashback – What reasons might Loyalist have had to support Great Britain during the American Revolution?

Activities

• Preview 1 from History Alive!
• Reading Notes – History Alive! Situations 1 & 4
• HW – Guided Reading Chapter 12 Section 1 (due Friday)

Thursday March 8, 2012

No School for Girls Sweet 16 Tournament

Friday March 9, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about the the Oregon Trail.

Flashback –Describe the country’s financial problems after the Revolutionary War.

Activities -

• Check Guided Reading Activity and take a grade
• United Streaming Film – Pioneer Spirit: Wagon Trails and the Oregon Trail

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Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn how the government went from being run by the elite of American society to the every day people of the United States.

Flashback – Describe what the cabinet of the President does.  Who and what positions did the persons in Washington’s cabinet hold?

Activites -

• Preview 14 exercise from History Alive
• Analyze the song “The President’s March”
• Analyze the photo “Jackson stops to Greet the People After His Election in 1828″
• Analyze song “The Hunters of Kentucky”
• Contrast the images and songs

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn about the Presidentcy of Andrew Jackson

Flashback – Describe the differences in the economies of the Northeast and the Southeast.

Activities -

• Students will work in groups to analyze six images to understand Jacksonian democracy and to assess Andrew Jackson’s presidency.
• Use Reading Notes 14 – Read section 14.2 – answer questions about section 14.2 and image
• Act it Out – #1 – students get parts & will act out roles given to them

Wednesday, March 1, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn more about the presidentcy of Andrew Jackson

Flashback – List the names of the US Presidents in order.  Only list those we have studied in class.

Activities

• History Alive Image 14D and Section 14.3 from History Alive book – Answer Reading Notes questions – Discuss
• History Alive Image 14E and Section 14.4 from History Alive book – Answer Reading Notes questions – Discuss
• History Alive Image 14F and Section 14.5 from History Alive book – Answer Reading Notes questions – Discuss

Thursday, March 2, 2012

Learning Target – (SS 8-5.2.3, 8-5.2.4) Today we will learn more about the presidentcy of Andrew Jackson

Flashback – List the names of the US Presidents in order.  Only list those we have studied in class.

Activities

• History Alive Image 14D and Section 14.3 from History Alive book – Answer Reading Notes questions – Discuss
• History Alive Image 14E and Section 14.4 from History Alive book – Answer Reading Notes questions – Discuss
• History Alive Image 14F and Section 14.5 from History Alive book – Answer Reading Notes questions – Discuss