History - 8th Grade

Department: 
History

Fall

  • From colonies to unity: Declaration of Independence--Study Guide & Test
  • Patriot or Loyalist (or somewhere in between)? Town Meeting simulations
  • Thomas Paine
  • American Revolution group presentations
  • First steps to a constitution: Articles of Confederation
  • Constitution: Close reading, discussions, and test
  • Writing your Congressperson
  • Currents in our government

Winter

  • Washington's Farewell Address--Lessons for Today?
  • Westward Expansion
  • Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis & Clark Diary
  • Cooking of 19th Century Immigrants
  • Native Americans--integration of English (Sherman Alexie) with plight of Native Americans
  • Abolitionists--movers and movements
  • Road to Civil War and the Civil War (Essay Test + Reintroduction to Note Card Prep)
  • Poetry re Civil War and other themes of equity in the American political landscape
  • Reconstruction
  • Urban Migrations
  • The 19th Amendment and the E.R.A.
  • Immigration Waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  • American Imperialism in the Pacific and the Caribbean
  • Yellow Journalism & Bias in the Media

Spring

  • Family history: interviews and original recorded stories
  • WWI--Greater world role for the U.S. and the modernization of war
  • Currents: Drones in modern warfare
  • Memoir Project: POV of a 1920s Figure (previous years)
  • Stock Market Crash, Great Depression, and the New Deal
  • WWII: European & Pacific Theaters and U.S. entry, Japanese Internment, Holocaust
  • Cold War into the Korean & Vietnam wars
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