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CRAWFORDSVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION
GRADE LEVEL: EIGHTH SUBJECT: SOCIAL STUDIES DATE: 2016‐2017
GRADING PERIOD: QUARTER 1 MASTER COPY 11‐30‐16
CONTENT
STANDARD INDICATORS SKILLS ASSESSMENTS VOCABULARY/ KEY TERMS
HISTORY The American Revolution & Founding of the United States: 1754‐1801 Native American
Indians
8.1.1: Identify major Native American Indian groups of eastern North America and describe early conflict and cooperation between European settlers and these Native American groups.
Identify the major Native American tribes in the Eastern U.S. in early European colonization of the North American continent.
Describe the ways in which the Native Americans and colonists cooperated with one another in the early settlement of the British colonies.
Describe the sources of conflict between the Native Americans and early colonists.
Map of Native American tribes of Eastern U.S.
Native American Writing Activities
Massacre at Mystic notes and writing analysis
Colonization and exploration unit test
Persecute Tolerance Pacifist Alliance Repeal
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STANDARD INDICATORS SKILLS ASSESSMENTS VOCABULARY/ KEY TERMS
HISTORY The American Revolution & Founding of the United States: 1754‐1801 Colonization
8.1.2: Compare and contrast reasons for British, French, Spanish, and Dutch colonization in the new world.
Identify the reasons for the colonization of the following: British French Spanish Dutch
Explain the similarities and differences in the method of exploration.
Describe the similarities and differences in the reasons for settling.
Four nation chart note taking activity
Compare/contrast discussion and writing
Northwest Passage Middle Passage Triangular Trade Mercantilism
French and Indian War
8.1.3: Explain the conditions, causes, consequences, and significance of Britain’s struggle to maintain control of colonies during the French and Indian War (1754‐1763).
Explain the issues that hindered the British from controlling events in America during the French and Indian War.
List the causes of the French and Indian War.
Identify the consequences, of the French and Indian War.
Explain the outcome of the French and Indian War.
Explain the impact of Treaty of Quebec.
Cause/effect worksheet and discussion of events leading to French and Indian War
Treaty of Paris Summary note taking
Results of French and Indian War writing
Militia Charter Writs of Assistance Indentured Servant Petition Protest
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STANDARD INDICATORS SKILLS ASSESSMENTS VOCABULARY/ KEY TERMS
HISTORY The American Revolution & Founding of the United States: 1754‐1801 British Imperial
Rule
8.1.4: Identify and explain the reasons and actions for the resistance and rebellion against British imperial rule by the thirteen colonies in North America (1761‐1775).
Identify and explain the reasons for the colonists’ resistance and rebellion against the British.
Defend the colonists’ position on boycotting, protesting, and petitioning the British laws/taxes passed after the French and Indian War.
PowerPoint of acts passed to pay for French and Indian War
Acts of atrocity quiz Perspective Write:
For or against colonies?
Burgess Assembly Boycott Rebellion Propaganda
Revolutionary War Declaration of
Independence Articles of
Confederation Treaty of Paris
8.1.5: Analyze the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War (1775‐1783), including the ideas from the Declaration of Independence, the enactment of the Articles of Confederation and the Treaty of Paris (1783).
List the events or instances that helped bring on the conflict that would morph into the American Revolution.
Explain the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War.
Analyze, discuss, and argue the causes that led the colonies to break free from Great Britain, leading to the American Revolution.
Timeline of events leading to the Revolution
Map of battles for Revolution
Event/timeline analysis
Unalienable Indispensable Life, Liberty, Pursuit
of Happiness Despotism Tyranny
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STANDARD INDICATORS SKILLS ASSESSMENTS VOCABULARY/ KEY TERMS
GEOGRAPHY The World in Spatial Terms Maps Landforms Human Features
8.3.1: Read maps to interpret symbols and determine the land forms and human features that represent physical and cultural characteristics of regions in the United States.
Read maps and identify symbols.
Identify and describe the many different types of maps (physical, political, topographic, economic resource, vegetation, climate).
Utilize the many different types of maps to identify the difference in physical and cultural characteristics of the regions in the US.
Map activities U.S. geography
map test
Key Scale Compass Rose Landform
Physical Systems
8.3.3: Identify and locate the major climate regions in the U.S. and describe the characteristics of these regions.
Identify and locate the major climate zones of the U.S.
Describe the characteristics of the major climate regions of North America.
Map activities U.S. geography
map test
Climate Weather Precipitation Landforms
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GEOGRAPHY Physical Systems Location of
significant landforms.
Development of landforms.
8.3.4: Identify the major mountain ranges and river systems of the U.S. and explain the importance of these physical features in the development of America.
Identify U.S.’s major landforms, mainly mountain ranges and major river systems.
Label the major mountain ranges of the U.S.
Identify the major river systems of the U.S.
Describe impact of landforms on development/settling of the Early Americas.
Describe the importance of the major physical features of America on settlement.
Map activity Class discussion Colonization and
exploration test
Tectonic Plates Continental Divide Delta Source Silt Erosion Weathering
Human Systems 8.3.7: Using primary and secondary sources, identify ways people modified the physical environment as the United States developed and describe the impacts that resulted.
Identify ways people altered the land using maps and other sources from the time period.
Describe the impact that resulted from the people changing the land for usage.
Writing activity Notes and
discussion
Redoubt Fortify Replenish
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GEOGRAPHY Human Systems Migration Settlement
Patterns Economic
Development of U.S.
8.3.8: Analyze human and physical factors that have influenced migration and settlement patterns and relate them to the economic development of the U.S.
Explain why people moved to the colonies.
Explain people’s ability to survive in the “New World”
Describe how the settlers used of the land’s natural resources.
Interpret different migration maps.
Map activities Immigration Emigrant Migrant Refugee Culture Nomad
ECONOMICS Economic Factors
European Exploration
Colonization
8.4.1: Identify economic factors contributing to European exploration and colonization in North America, the American Revolution and the drafting of the Constitution of the United States.
Describe the economic factors that led the Spanish, British, French, and Dutch to explore the North American continent.
Describe the economic factors that led to the American Revolution.
Examine how economic factors played a role in the development of the U.S. Constitution.
Class note‐taking activities
Discussion
Subsistence Farming
Cash Crop Import Export Civic Virtue
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STANDARD INDICATORS SKILLS ASSESSMENTS VOCABULARY/ KEY TERMS
ECONOMICS Economic Systems
Traditional Command Market Mixed
8.4.2: Identify and explain the four types of economic systems (traditional, command, market, and mixed); evaluate how the characteristics of a market economy have affected the economic and labor development of the United States
Define the four different types of economic systems: Traditional Economy Command Economy Market Economy Mixed Economy
Explain how the characteristics of a market economy affected the following: Economic development Labor development
Economics of early America discussion worksheet and chart
Colonization and exploration test
Economics Currency Market Capital Supply & Demand Import Export Traditional
Economy Command
Economy Market Economy Mixed Economy
Development of Money
8.4.6: Trace the development of different kinds of money used in the United States.
Identify the type of money used in early America, from Colonization until the Declaration of Independence
Economics of early America discussion worksheet and chart
Colonization and exploration test
Currency Pound Coin Gold Standard
LITERACY IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
Learning Outcome 6.8.LH.1.1: Read and comprehend history/social studies texts within a range of complexity appropriate for grades 6‐8 independently and proficiently by the end of 8th grade.
Read and comprehend grade level texts.
Short answer Constructed
responses Essays
6‐8.LH.1.2: Write routinely over a variety of time frames for a range of discipline‐specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Write for different purposes and audiences.
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LITERACY IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
Key Ideas and Textual Support Steps in a process
6‐8.LH.2.3: Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies.
Identify key steps in a description of a process.
Short answer Constructed
responses Essays
Structural Elements and Organization Meaning of words
and phrases
6‐8.LH.3.1: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases.
Include vocabulary specific to social studies and history.
6‐8.LH.3.2: Describe how text presents information.
Describe how a text presents information.
Synthesis and Connection of Ideas Visual information Print and digital
texts
6‐8.LH.4.1: Integrate visual information with other information in print and digital texts.
Integrate visual information print and digital texts.
Fact Opinion Reasoned
judgment
6‐8.LH.4.2: Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
Distinguish among fact and opinion and reasoned judgement.
Writing Genres Informative texts
6‐8.LH.5.2: Write informative texts, including analyses of historical events.
Write informative texts. Write analyses of historical
texts.
The Writing Process 6‐8.LH.6.2: Use technology to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.
Use technology to produce and publish writing.
Present relationships between information and ideas.
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CRAWFORDSVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION
GRADE LEVEL: EIGHTH SUBJECT: SOCIAL STUDIES DATE: 2016‐2017
GRADING PERIOD: QUARTER 2 MASTER COPY 11‐30‐16
CONTENT
STANDARD INDICATORS SKILLS ASSESSMENT VOCABULARY/ KEY TERMS
HISTORY The American Revolution and Founding of the United States: 1754 to 1801 Revolutionary War Declaration of
Independence Articles of
Confederation Treaty of Paris
8.1.5: Analyze the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War (1775–1783) including the ideas from the Declaration of Independence, the enactment of the Articles of Confederation and the Treaty of Paris (1783).
Explain the causes of the Revolutionary War.
Describe the effects of the Revolutionary War.
Identify the main ideas of the Declaration of Independence.
Articulate the unalienable rights identified in the Declaration of Independence.
Identify the person who came up with the idea of unalienable rights.
List the major concessions and gains of the United States, Great Britain, France, and Spain after the war’s ending.
Identify the main ideas of the Treaty of Paris.
Explain the main ideas of the Treaty of Paris.
Guided Reading Activities
Declaration translation guide
Declaration response writing: Loyalist or Patriot
Revolution Test Treaty of Paris
writing activity
Militia Unalienable Rights Treaty Mercenary Blockade Siege Ratify
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HISTORY The American Revolution and Founding of the United States: 1754 to 1801
8.1.5: (cont.) Describe the problems with the Articles of Confederation.
Explain the unresolved issues after the completion of the war.
Constitution Constitutional
conventions Federalist Anti‐Federalist
8.1.6: Identify and give the significance of major events in the creation of the Constitution such as: the enactment of state constitutions, the Constitutional conventions, the willingness to compromise, and the Federalist‐ anti Federalist debates regarding the vote to ratify the Constitution.
Identify and explain the significance of the major events in the creation of the Constitution.
Identify the people involved in the writing & ratification process of the Constitution.
Analyze the impact of Shays Rebellion in showing how a new government guide needed to be created.
Compare and contrast the views of the Federalist & Anti‐federalists.
Explain the impact of the convention and the ability to compromise to make the new nation work effectively.
Articles of Confederation vs. Constitution writing
Shays Rebellion guided reading activity
Federalist vs. Anti‐Federalist worksheet
Constitution Children’s book
Republic Compromise Federalism Amendment Federalist Anti‐Federalist
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HISTORY The American Revolution and Founding of the United States: 1754 to 1801 Washington
Administration First and Second
Congresses
8.1.7: Identify and explain the steps taken during the Washington Administration and the First and Second Congresses of the United States to establish a stable and lasting national government.
Describe the leadership ability of Washington as President.
Determine and explain the competency of the first administration in helping to keep the nation stable.
Explain the steps taken by the first Administration in the establishment of a long‐lasting national government.
Washington and First Congress note taking questions
Guided Reading Activity
Precedent Cabinet Judicial Review Neutrality
Independence movement
Framing of the Constitution
8.1.10: Analyze the influence of important individuals on social and political developments of the time such as the Independence movement and the framing of the Constitution.
List some of the most important Revolutionary figures of the Revolution.
Identify the men responsible for the writing of the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, and the Constitution.
Explain the influence of these individuals on the outcome of the Revolutionary War and the ratification of the Constitution by the states.
The Revolution series notes and worksheet
Declaration of Independence analysis and class discussion
Constitution and Federalist Papers group discussion
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HISTORY Chronological Thinking, Historical Comprehension, Analysis and Interpretation, Research, and Issues‐Analysis and Decision‐Making Issues confronting
U.S. Colonial times
through Reconstruction period
8.1.30: Using primary and secondary sources, analyze an issue confronting the United States from colonial times through the Reconstruction period.
Argue the reason the Declaration of Independence was the only option remaining for the colonists.
Identify the historical significance of the Declaration of Independence.
Explain why the Declaration of Independence was such a historic document.
Evaluate the terms of the Treaty of Paris from the perspective of the British and Americans.
Declaration of Independence interpretation guide
Unalienable Endowed Despotism Petition Propaganda Usurpation
CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT
Foundations of Government Constitutional
Government
8.2.1: Identify and explain essential ideas of constitutional government, which include limited government; rule of law; due process of law; separated and shared powers; checks and balances; federalism; popular sovereignty; republicanism; representative government; and individual rights to life, liberty and property; and freedom of conscience.
Define limited government.
Identify the principles behind rule of law.
Discuss the concept of separated and shared powers.
Explain how the idea of separated and shared powers fits into both the national and state level.
Constitution Children’s book project
Limited Government
Republic Federalism Delegated Powers Reserved Powers Concurrent
Powers Rule of Law Due Process
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CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT
Foundations of Government Constitutional
Government
8.2.1: (cont.)
Explain how the system of checks and balances perform checks on other branches.
Define federalism. Explain how federalism
impacts realistic system of government for America.
Identify the historical background of the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness/ property.
Legislative Branch Executive Branch Judicial Branch Judicial Review Preamble Popular
Sovereignty Ratify
Separation of Powers
8.2.2: Explain the concept of a separation of powers and how and why these powers are distributed, shared and limited in the constitutional government of the United States.
Explain separation of powers.
Explain how and why these powers are distributed
List the powers of the state and national government in the federalist system.
Describe the powers that the national and state governments share in performing.
Children’s Constitution book project
Limited Government.
Republic. Federalism. Delegated Powers. Reserved Powers. Concurrent
Powers
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CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT
Foundations of Government
8.2.3: Examine ways that the national government affects the everyday lives of people of the United States.
Identify ways in which the national government affects the everyday lives of people, both then (late 1700s) and now (Present‐day).
Constitution of the United States group discussion and note taking activities
Delegated Powers Reserved Powers Concurrent
Powers
Functions of Government Division of
power/federal system
8.2.4: Compare and contrast the delegated, reserved, and concurrent powers (division of power or federal system) contained in the United States Constitution.
Explain the difference between the powers of each part of the federalist system.
Define delegated, reserved, and concurrent powers, and list specific examples of each.
Compare and contrast the three powers of the federal and state governments.
List a specific type of delegated, reserved, and concurrent power.
Children’s Constitution book project
Constitution for Dummies analysis
Limited Government
Republic Federalism Delegated Powers Reserved Powers Concurrent
Powers Rule of Law Due Process Legislative Branch Executive Branch Judicial Branch Judicial Review Preamble Popular
Sovereignty
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STANDARD INDICATORS SKILLS ASSESSMENT VOCABULARY/ KEY TERMS
CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT
Functions of Government Federal System
United States Constitution
Indiana Constitution
8.2.5: Compare and contrast the different functions of national and state government within the federal system by analyzing the United States Constitution and the Indiana Constitution.
Identify the major powers that are performed by the federal and state governments.
Explain/articulate the major powers that are performed by the federal and state governments.
Children’s Constitution book project
Limited Government
Republic Federalism Delegated Powers Reserved Powers Concurrent
Powers Rule of Law Due Process
Roles of Citizens Rights Responsibilities
8.2.6: Recognize and explain the relationship between the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in the United States.
Explain the responsibility of being a citizen in the United States governmental process.
Identify the rights all citizens have in the governmental process.
How Can You Ensure a Democratic Process? writing activity
Citizenship Governmental
Process Suffrage Civil Rights Naturalization
GEOGRAPHY Places and Regions Physical growth of
U.S.
8.3.2: Read and interpret maps that portray the physical growth and development of the United States from colonization through Reconstruction (1877).
Describe the provisions of the Treaty of Paris & how the size of the United States was drastically impacted as a result.
Contextualize the impact of the addition of the territory gained through the Treaty of Paris after the American Revolution.
Treaty of Paris discussion and questionnaire/map of land acquisitions
Editorial piece on review of the Treaty of Paris from both British and U.S. perspectives
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GEOGRAPHY Places and Regions 8.3.2: (cont.)
Evaluate the Treaty of
Paris from the perspective of the United States, British, French, and Spanish in terms of land exploration or decline.
Explain how the Treaty of Paris impacted exploration or decline for the following: United States British French Spanish
ECONOMICS Government and
the economy 8.4.3: Explain how federal, state, and local governments are involved in the economy of the United States.
Identify the ways in which the different levels of government are involved in the economy of the United States.
Constitution for Dummies guide to Interpreting the Constitution
U.S. banking system
8.4.7: Trace the development of the banking system in the United States.
Describe the development of the first banking system utilized in the U.S.
Origin of the Bank activity
Use of credit 8.4.9: Examine the importance of borrowing and lending (use of credit) in the U.S. economy and list the advantages and disadvantages of using credit.
Identify the reasons behind the United States needing to borrow money in the early years of its existence.
List the advantages and disadvantages of using credit from other powers.
Economic systems of the U.S. worksheet/ questions
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LITERACY IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
Learning Outcome 6.8.LH.1.1: Read and comprehend history/social studies texts within a range of complexity appropriate for grades 6‐8 independently and proficiently by the end of 8th grade.
Read and comprehend grade level texts.
Guided Reading Short answer Constructed
responses Essays
6‐8.LH.1.2: Write routinely over a variety of time frames for a range of discipline‐specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Write for different purposes and audiences.
Key Ideas and Textual Support
6‐8.LH.2.3: Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies.
Identify key steps in a description of a process.
Synthesis and Connection of Ideas Visual information Print and digital
texts
6‐8.LH.4.1: Integrate visual information with other information in print and digital texts.
Integrate visual information print and digital texts.
Fact Opinion Reasoned
judgment
6‐8.LH.4.2: Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
Distinguish among fact and opinion and reasoned judgement.
Writing Genres Informative texts
6‐8.LH.5.2: Write informative texts, including analyses of historical events.
Write informative texts. Write analyses of
historical texts.
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LITERACY IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
The Writing Process
6‐8.LH.6.2: Use technology to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.
Use technology to produce and publish writing.
Present relationships between information and ideas.
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CRAWFORDSVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION
GRADE LEVEL: EIGHTH SUBJECT: SOCIAL STUDIES DATE: 2016‐2017
GRADING PERIOD: QUARTER 3 MASTER COPY 11‐30‐16
CONTENT
STANDARD INDICATORS SKILLS ASSESSMENT VOCABULARY
HISTORY The American Revolution and Founding of the United States: 1754 to 1801 Development of
political parties
8.1.8: Compare and contrast the views of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton and explain how their differences gave rise to the development of political parties.
Identify the major ideologies in which Jefferson and Hamilton differed in governmental policy.
Explain how the differences between Jefferson and Hamilton gave rise to the development of political parties.
Assess both sides opinions on government policy (Hamilton and Jefferson).
Comparing ideologies chart: Jefferson vs. Hamilton
Election of 1800 PowerPoint and questionnaire
Caucus Tribute Neutrality Rights Embargo Nationalism
8.1.9: Identify the events leading up to the presidential and congressional election of 1800 and the transfer of political authority and power to the Democratic‐Republican Party led by Thomas Jefferson (1801); Evaluate the significance of these events.
Examine the issues that made the election of 1800 such an important election in the direction the United States would go from this point forward.
Election of 1800 PowerPoint and questionnaire
Election of 1800 Campaign Buttons
Balance of Power article
Caucus Federalist Democratic‐
Republican
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STANDARD INDICATORS SKILLS ASSESSMENT VOCABULARY
HISTORY The American Revolution and Founding of the United States: 1754 to 1801
8.1.9: Identify the events leading up to the presidential and congressional election of 1800 and the transfer of political authority and power to the Democratic‐Republican Party led by Thomas Jefferson (1801); Evaluate the significance of these events. (continued)
Identify the events leading up to the presidential and congressional election of 1800.
Describe how the transference of political power and authority to the Democratic‐republican Party led by Thomas Jefferson
Describe the significance of these events.
Explain the significance of the election of 1800 on the world & democracy in the future.
Growth of industry Dependence in
slavery Production of
cotton
8.1.11: Compare and contrast the ways of life in the northern and southern states, including the growth of towns and cities and the growth of industry in the North and the growing dependence on slavery and the production of cotton in the South.
Compare and contrast the reasons for the way of life differences between northern and southern societies.
Compare and contrast the growth of industry in the North and the growing dependence on slavery in the South.
Industrial Revolution note taking Study Guide
Story Board: Life in the South vs. Life in the North
Cities of the North and the Plantations of the South
Cotton Gin Industrial
Revolution Interchangeable
Parts patent Capitalism Capital Free Enterprise
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HISTORY The American Revolution and Founding of the United States: 1754 to 1801 Growth of industry Dependence in
slavery Production of
cotton
8.1.11: Compare and contrast the ways of life in the northern and southern states, including the growth of towns and cities and the growth of industry in the North and the growing dependence on slavery and the production of cotton in the South. (continued)
Analyze and describe the impact of the Southern “King Cotton” on the economy of the United States.
Explain the heated controversy of the way of life in the South compared to the Biblical ideologies in the North.
National Expansion and Reform: 1801 to 1861 Louisiana Purchase Lewis and Clark
Expedition
8.1.12: Interpret how the events surrounding the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and Lewis and Clark expedition (1803‐1806) allowed for America’s initial push towards westward expansion.
List the expectations for Lewis and Clark set by Jefferson in making the Corps of Discovery.
Identify the major influences, new geographic features, animals, and peoples met by the expedition.
Determine the outcomes of the expedition of the Corps of Discovery.
Explain the significance of the expedition of the Corps of Discovery on the history of the U.S.
Lewis and Clark Video + video notes
Lewis and Clark projects
Introduction to Westward Expansion
Purchase Authority Executive Privilege Corps of Discovery
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HISTORY National Expansion and Reform: 1801 to 1861 Marshall Court
8.1.13: Explain the main issues, consequences, and landmark decisions of the Marshall Court.
Identify the major cases that helped to establish the idea of “judicial review” and establish power with the judicial branch.
Explain the following aspects of the Marshall Court: Main issues Consequences Landmark decisions
Explain the importance of the decisions of the Marshall Court on the interpretation of the Constitution.
Establishment of Judicial Review (Marbury v. Madison) Activity
Major Cases of the Marshall Court analysis worksheet and discussion
Judicial review Jurisdiction Implied Powers
National Expansion and Reform: 1801 to 1861 War of 1812
8.1.14: Analyze the causes and consequences of the War of 1812.
Identify the events that led to tension between the U.S. and Great Britain, eventually leading to the War of 1812.
Compare and contrast the military capacity of the U.S. and Great Britain in fighting the War of 1812.
Explain the significance of the war on legitimizing the U.S. to Great Britain and Europe.
DVD Notes: War of 1812
Cause and Effect of War of 1812 worksheet
Impressment Frigates
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HISTORY National Expansion and Reform: 1801 to 1861 Nationalism Domestic and
foreign Policy
8.1.15: Define nationalism and understand the direction nationalism gave to domestic and foreign policy and to the development of an industrial economy during this period.
Define nationalism. Describe the impact of
nationalism on the United States in terms: Domestic policy Foreign policy Development of an
industrial economy Identify and the
important events that defined boundaries for the US.
Explain the importance of the following on American Foreign Policy: Monroe Doctrine Rush‐Bagot
Agreement Adams‐Onis Treaty
Monroe Doctrine, Rush‐Bagot Agreement, Adams‐Onis PowerPoint
Primary document analysis
Nationalism Foreign Policy Domestic Policy
Jacksonian Democracy
8.1.16: Identify the key ideas of Jacksonian democracy and explain their influence on political participation, political parties and constitutional government; analyze Jackson’s actions as President such as the destruction of the National Bank, the nullification crisis, and Jackson’s Indian policy.
Identify and explain the key ideas that developed into the Jacksonian Democracy.
Describe the key ideas that evolved during the Jacksonian Democracy that changed the way people voted.
Age of Jackson PowerPoint
Age of Jackson reading and ideologies discussion
Life of Andrew Jackson story board
Battle of New Orleans & “Old Hickory” myth writing
Jacksonian Democracy
Plurality Majority Mudslinging Bureaucracy Spoils System Nominating
Convention
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HISTORY National Expansion and Reform: 1801 to 1861 Jacksonian
Democracy
8.1.16: Identify the key ideas of Jacksonian democracy and explain their influence on political participation, political parties and constitutional government; analyze Jackson’s actions as President such as the destruction of the National Bank, the nullification crisis, and Jackson’s Indian policy. (continued)
Demonstrate the ways in which Jackson helped shape the Democratic Party.
Explain the impact of the Jacksonian Democracy on the evolution of the Democratic Party.
Assess and describe the methods for which Jackson handled events: National Bank Nullification crisis Indian policy
8.1.17: Explain relationships and conflict between settlers and Native Americans on the frontier.
Describe the ways in which the settlers moving west and Native American tribes clashed.
Describe the relationship between the Native Americans and Americans on the frontier.
Explain why the relationship between Native Americans and settlers deteriorated.
“I am” poem: Trail of Tears
“The West” Video series notes & writing summaries
Jeremiah Johnson – review analysis writing activity
Veto Trail of Tears Panic
National Bank
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HISTORY National Expansion and Reform: 1801 to 1861 Westward
expansion Manifest Destiny
8.1.18: Describe the causes, courses, challenges, compromises, and consequences associated with westward expansion, including the concept of Manifest Destiny.
Evaluate the Missouri Compromise and explain how this stop‐gap measure just slowed the pace towards civil war on the slavery issue.
Describe how Texas would help to accelerate the issue of slavery in the U.S.
Summarize the effect of the Oregon Trail on Westward expansion.
Describe the major causes for Westward Expansion for the Americans.
Identify the challenges posed by Westward Expansion.
Evaluate and explain the consequences of Westward Expansion and how these consequences influenced policy in America.
Define Manifest Destiny, and how this idea drove policy making in the U.S. government in Washington D.C.
Missouri Compromise PowerPoint and discussion/ argumentative writing
Texan War of Independence timeline
“The Alamo” excerpt Manifest Destiny
mural activity Cause/Effect flow
chart of Westward Expansion
Native American and Westward Expansion writing
Presidencies of Polk, Taylor, and Fillmore in policy of Westward Expansion Venn diagram
Mountain Men Migration Emigrant Manifest Destiny Annex Tejano Ranchero Forty‐Niners Boomtown Vigilante
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HISTORY National Expansion and Reform: 1801 to 1861 Mexican War
8.1.19: Analyze the causes and effects of the Mexican War (1846‐1848).
Describe the events that led up to the Mexican War.
Describe the events that eventually helped bring an end to the Mexican War.
Explain the outcome of the Mexican War and the importance of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Determine the effectiveness of the way in which the Mexican War was fought.
Describe the impact of the Mexican Cession after the Mexican War on the idea of Manifest Destiny.
Mexican War DVD (History Channel) notes and discussion
Mexican Cession and Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo evaluation
Writing activity: Fair or unfair for Mexico?
Border “No Quarter” Immigrant Pirate
Impact of immigration on American culture
8.1.20: Give examples of how immigration affected American culture in the decades before and the Civil War, including growth of industrial sites in the North; religious differences; tensions between middle‐class and working‐class people, particularly in the Northeast; and intensification of cultural differences between the North and the South.
Describe how the mass migration of people to the United States, mainly the Western states during the era of Manifest destiny, helped to bring about a significant cultural shift in the United States.
Plantation Industrial
Revolution Abolitionist Reform Social Reformer “King Cotton”
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HISTORY National Expansion and Reform: 1801 to 1861 Impact of
immigration
8.1.20: Give examples of how immigration affected American culture in the decades before and the Civil War, including growth of industrial sites in the North; religious differences; tensions between middle‐class and working‐class people, particularly in the Northeast; and intensification of cultural differences between the North and the South.
Provide examples of how immigration affected American culture in the decades before and after the Civil War.
Describe the following: Growth of
industrial sites in the North
Religious differences
Tensions between the middle‐class working class
Cultural differences between the North and South T‐Chart.
8.1.21: Give examples of the changing role of women, minorities, and immigrants in the northern, southern and western parts of the United States in the mid‐nineteenth century, and examine possible causes for these changes.
Explain how decisions made in government helped bring about the changing roles of specific groups of people in the United States, mainly minorities and women.
Gold Rush and the impact on immigration to the west
Oregon Trail worksheet
Ranchero Vaquero
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HISTORY Chronological Thinking, Historical Comprehension, Analysis and Interpretation, Research, and Issues‐Analysis and Decision‐Making Colonial times
through Reconstruction period
8.1.30: Using primary and secondary sources, analyze an issue confronting the United States from colonial times through the Reconstruction period.
Identify an issue confronting the US from colonial times through the Reconstruction Period.
Explain the impact on the development and growth of US.
Analysis of following documents: Washington
Farewell Address Monroe
Doctrine Jackson’s
Nullification Compromise of
1820 short writing activity and notes.
Nullification Secession Compromise
GOVERNMENT Roles of Citizens Election process
8.2.8: Explain ways that citizens can participate in the election process (political parties, campaigns and elections) at the national, state, and local levels.
Explain how citizens can participate in the election process at the national, state and local levels. Describe how the era of Jackson impacted the election process easier, and affected the “common man.”
Jacksonian Democracy reading, PowerPoint, and discussions
How can you be more active? worksheet and research analysis
Citizenship Suffrage
Fundamental Rights
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GEOGRAPHY Roles of Citizens 8.2.9: Explain how citizens can
monitor & influence the development & implementation of public policies at local, state, and national levels of government.
Identify the changes in voting and participation rules made by Jackson allowed for more people to participate in the election process.
Explain how citizens can keep track of the development and implementation of laws at all levels of government (local, state, national).
Changes in Governmental participation guide and notes
Places & Regions 8.3.2: Read and interpret maps that portray the physical growth and development of the United States from colonization through Reconstruction (1877).
Interpret maps showing the vast expanse of lands bought, inherited, or taken through the period of Manifest Destiny.
Identify the ways in which the lands acquired were used & utilization of land.
Explain the reasons for settlement of the Pacific Coast before the settlement of the midsection of the country (Great Plains region).
Westward Expansion Map activity
Mexican Cession map activity and discussion
Westward Expansion Test
Cession Acquisition Invalidate
Physical Systems Development of
America
8.3.4: Identify the major mountain ranges and river systems of the United States and explain the importance of these physical features in the development of America.
Describe the impact of the rivers of the Western United States and the Rocky Mountains on the westward expansion movement.
Lewis and Clark video series notes
Westward Expansion test
Source Delta Current Tributary
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GEOGRAPHY Human Systems Agricultural regions
of U.S. Land development
and use
8.3.5: Identify the agricultural regions of the United States and be able to give explanations for how the land was used and developed during the growth of the United States.
Identify the agricultural regions of the US.
Explain how the settlers utilized the land of the west during the growth of the United States.
Describe how the process of Manifest Destiny, through tough conditions, helped to bring the United States to the forefront of world powers.
Manifest Destiny reading and discussion
Westward Expansion test
Manifest Destiny Prairie Soil Composition
Human Systems Migration
8.3.6: Using maps identify changes influenced by growth, economic development and human migration in the United States.
Interpret maps regarding economic development and utilization of resources in the period of Manifest Destiny.
Use maps to identify changes influenced by growth, economic development and human migration in the U.S.
Manifest Destiny map activity and reading discussion
Westward Expansion Test
Human Systems Settlement
patterns
8.3.8: Analyze human and physical factors that have influenced migration and settlement patterns and relate them to the economic development of the United States.
Describe the issues that led people to migrate in mass numbers to the West and what it was these migrants were in search of.
Manifest Destiny and Mexican Cession map activity
Westward Expansion map
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GEOGRAPHY Human Systems Economic
development
8.3.8: Analyze human and physical factors that have influenced migration and settlement patterns and relate them to the economic development of the United States. (continued)
Evaluate the mass migration of people to the west on the land, the people, and the culture of the West itself.
ECONOMICS Domestic and
international interdependence
8.4.8: Explain and evaluate examples of domestic and international interdependence throughout United States history.
Explain how the changes made by the Jackson Administration allowed for more domestic interdependence.
Describe how the ways in which the Southern Economy became internationally interdependent due to the advent of “King Cotton”.
Northern Way of Life vs. Southern Way of Life T‐Chart/ compare and contrast
International influence on the War’s outcome writing analysis
Domestic International Interdependence GDP
Job skills 8.4.10: Compare & contrast job skills needed in different time periods in U.S. history.
Identify the ideal worker and their work qualities needed in the United States at the beginning of the 19th century.
Compare and contrast the skills needed of someone in the 19th century to a person who first came to the “New World” in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
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LITERACY IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
Learning Outcome 6‐8.LH.1.1: Read & comprehend history/social studies texts within a range of complexity appropriate for grades 6‐8 independently & proficiently by the end of grade 8.
Read and comprehend grade level texts.
Guided Reading Short answer Constructed
responses Essays
6‐8.LH.1.2: Write routinely over a variety of time frames for a range of discipline‐specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Write for different purposes and audiences.
Key Ideas and Textual Support Primary and
secondary sources
6‐8.LH.2.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
Summarize primary and secondary sources on unit‐specific items.
Central ideas
6‐8.LH.2.2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source. Provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Summarize accurately without bias of prior knowledge based on how the people of the time would have felt about a particular issue.
6‐8.LH.2.3: Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies.
Identify key steps in a description of a process.
Structural Elements and Organization
6‐8.LH.3.1: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
Define unknown terms in a history text or source based on the context clues given surrounding the term.
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LITERACY IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
Structural Elements and Organization
6‐8.LH.3.2: Describe how a text presents information.
Describe the way in which a text is presented.
Author’s purpose and perspective
6‐8.LH.3.3: Identify aspects of a text that reveal author’s perspective or purpose.
Identify and explain specific examples that show an author’s perspective.
Synthesis and Connection of Ideas Print and digital
texts
6‐8.LH.4.1: Integrate visual information with other information in print and digital texts.
Integrate visual information print and digital texts.
6‐8.LH.4.2: Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
Distinguish among fact and opinion and reasoned judgement.
Primary and secondary source
6‐8.LH.4.3: Compare & contrast treatments of the same topic in a primary and secondary source.
Compare and contrast two different views of the same topic.
Writing Genres 6‐8.LH.5.1: Write arguments focused on discipline‐specific content.
Argue a side on a specific event in U.S. History.
Informative texts 6‐8.LH.5.2: Write informative texts, including analyses of historical events.
Write informative texts. Write analyses of historical texts.
The Research Process Informational texts
6‐8.LH.7.3: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Correctly utilize data to back a position of analysis and reflection.
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HISTORY The Civil War and Reconstruction Period: 1850 to 1877 Changing role of
women and minorities
8.1.21: Give examples of the changing role of women, minorities, and immigrants in the northern, southern, and western parts of the United States in the mid‐nineteenth century, and examine possible causes for these changes.
Identify a man or woman who made a significant impact in the changing role of women, minorities, and immigrants in the U.S.
Describe the changing roles of women, minorities, and immigrants in the western U.S. after Manifest Destiny.
Explain the major causes of the changes in the roles of women, minorities, and immigrants in the North, South, and West.
The West video series notes
Changing role of men, women, and minorities discussion forum
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HISTORY The Civil War and Reconstruction Period: 1850 to 1877 Abolitionist
movement
8.1.22: Describe the abolitionist movement and identify figures and organizations involved in the debate over slavery, including leaders of the Underground Railroad.
List the men and women who were influential in the abolitionist movement.
Identify those who were advocates in politics for abolition, the media, or members of the Underground Railroad.
Describe the platforms of the different people and groups in the abolitionist movement in the North.
Social reforms of the 1850s and 1860s PowerPoint notes
Social reformers quiz
Changing role of women and minorities
8.1.23: Analyze the influence of early individual social reformers and movements such as the abolitionist, feminist, and social reform movements.
Explain the influence of early individuals on the movement of abolition in the U.S.
Explain methods used by social reformers of the Civil War era in working for women’s suffrage rights.
Social reforms of the 1850s and 1860s PowerPoint notes
Social Reformers ID quiz
State’s rights Slavery
8.1.24: Analyze the causes and effects of events leading to the Civil War, and evaluate the impact issues such as states’ rights and slavery had in developing America’s sectional conflict.
Identify the different issues that caused strife between the Northern and Southern states.
Investigate and describe the issues and reactions to the issues that caused conflict between North and South.
Prelude to Civil War writing activity
Cause and Effect worksheet – events of 1850s
Kansas‐Nebraska Act discussion forum and questionnaire
Secede States’ Rights
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HISTORY The Civil War and Reconstruction Period: 1850 to 1877
8.1.24: Analyze the causes and effects of events leading to the Civil War, and evaluate the impact issues such as states’ rights and slavery had in developing America’s sectional conflict. (continued)
Determine the effectiveness of the compromises in their aim to prevent civil war in the U.S.
List the compromises and acts of Congress passed in order to alleviate the tension between the Northern and Southern states.
North vs. South Society chart and worksheet
8.1.25: Identify the factors and individuals which influenced the outcome of the Civil War and explain the significance of each.
Identify people who contributed to the Civil War on both sides, the Union and Confederacy.
Evaluate and describe the contributions of these men and women on the outcome of the war itself.
Civil War battles chart
Role model figures of the Civil War worksheet
Brigade Regiment Corps Division Confederacy
Changing role of women and minorities
Reconstruction
8.1.26: Compare and contrast the three plans for Reconstruction and evaluate the merits of each.
Compare and contrast the three plans of Reconstruction and argue which plan suited the country best.
Determine and explain if the outcome of Reconstruction was the best one for all sides involved.
Reconstruction notes, questions, and movie
Debate: Which Plan is Best?
Impact of Lincoln’s death on South worksheet
Reconstruction Impeachment Suffrage Segregation Jim Crow Laws Black codes
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HISTORY The Civil War and Reconstruction Period: 1850 to 1877
8.1.27: Describe causes and lasting effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction as well as the political controversies surrounding this time such as Andrew Johnson’s impeachment, the Black Codes, and the Compromise of 1877. (Government, Economics)
Defend the competency of Andrew Johnson as President.
Evaluate and explain how Andrew Johnson handled the struggles with Radical Republicans after the Civil War
Articulate the lasting effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the landscape of the United States, both North and South.
List the major difference between Andrew Johnson and Radical Republicans.
Civil War battles chart and map
Reconstruction worksheet
Civil War cause and effect chart/ discussion
Reconstruction Era video/ questionnaire
Chronological Thinking, Historical Comprehension, Analysis and Interpretation, Research, and Issues‐Analysis and Decision‐Making
8.1.28: Recognize historical perspective and evaluate alternative courses of action by describing the historical context in which events unfolded.
Explain what the Emancipation Proclamation actually did in terms of freeing slaves in the U.S.
Determine how the different viewpoints of Reconstruction in both North and South varied greatly.
Interpret and explain the meaning of political cartoons of the time period.
Kansas and Nebraska Act reading, questions, and alternative action
Emancipation Proclamation reading and analysis
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HISTORY Chronological Thinking, Historical Comprehension, Analysis and Interpretation, Research, and Issues‐Analysis and Decision‐Making
8.1.29: Differentiate between facts and historical interpretations of events, recognizing that the historian’s narrative reflects his or her judgment about the significance of particular facts.
Interpret and explain the meaning political cartoons of the time period based on different perspectives of the political cartoonists.
Assess and describe the opinions of those who helped to shape Reconstruction after the death of Abraham Lincoln.
Political cartoon pre‐writes and discussions
Reconstruction Era review worksheet
8.1.30: Using primary and secondary sources, analyze an issue confronting the United States from colonial times through the Reconstruction period.
Analyze and explain the meaning of and the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation, excerpts of Lincoln’s 1st and 2nd Inaugural addresses, Kansas‐Nebraska Act, and the documents involving the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
Emancipation Proclamation analysis
Political cartoon pre‐rites.
K‐N Act Analysis
8.1.31: Compare and contrast examples of art, music, literature, and other forms of expression; explain how these reflect American culture during this time period.
Identify major themes underlying in political cartoons of the time period.
Political cartoon analysis
Political cartoon pre‐writes
Author analysis of chosen political cartoon
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HISTORY Chronological Thinking, Historical Comprehension, Analysis and Interpretation, Research, and Issues‐Analysis and Decision‐Making
8.1.31: Compare and contrast examples of art, music, literature, and other forms of expression; explain how these reflect American culture during this time period. (continued)
Explain why the author/ illustrator would have used the medium of political cartoons to get an idea or belief across to the people.
ECONOMICS Economic systems
Traditional Command Market Mixed
8.4.2: Identify and explain the four types of economic systems (traditional, command, market, and mixed); evaluate how the characteristics of a market economy have affected the economic and labor development of the United States.
Define each of the four major types of economic systems employed through history.
Investigate and determine the effectiveness of each economy in the history of the U.S.
Explain how a market economy affected the economic and labor development in the U.S.
Economies of the U.S. evaluation worksheet
Impact of entrepreneurs and inventions
8.4.4: Analyze contributions of entrepreneurs and inventors in the development of the United States economy to 1877.
Explain the effectiveness of the North in committing all available resources to maintaining the war effort.
Assess and describe the inventions made during the war that contributed to the North’s victory.
Civil War tech video and questionnaire
Industrial Revolution worksheet
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ECONOMICS 8.4.4: Analyze contributions
of entrepreneurs and inventors in the development of the United States economy to 1877. (continued)
Explain how the Civil War helped bring about the Industrial Revolution in the latter half of the 19th Century in the U.S.
Advantages/ Disadvantages of North vs. South in winning the Civil War worksheet
Impact of new technology and inventions
8.4.5: Relate how new technology and inventions brought about changes in labor productivity in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Explain how the invention of the assembly line and factory systems in the U.S. in the early & late 19th Century brought about changes in labor productivity.
Identify new innovations in technology that impacted the Civil War.
Describe the impact of the new innovations in technology (such as the telegraph, railroads and steam engines).
Industrial Revolution worksheet and note taking activity
Domestic interdependence
International interdependence
8.4.8: Explain and evaluate examples of domestic and international interdependence throughout United States history.
Explain the change in ideology of the South in domestic inter‐dependence based on the outcomes during the Civil War.
Outcomes of the Civil War T‐chart
Cause and effect discussion
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ECONOMY Job skills 8.4.10: Compare and contrast
job skills needed in different time periods in U.S. history.
Describe the ways in which the prototypical worker changed from early colonization to the time period of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Civil War and Reconstruction culture evaluation writing assignment
LITERACY IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
Learning Outcomes 6‐8.LH.1.1: Read and comprehend history/social studies texts within a range of complexity appropriate for grades 6‐8 independently and proficiently by the end of grade 8.
Read and comprehend grade level texts.
Guided Reading Short Answer Constructed
Response Essays
6‐8.LH.1.2: Write routinely over a variety of time frames for a range of discipline‐specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Write for different purposes and audiences (perspective).
Key Ideas & Textual Support Primary and
secondary sources
6‐8.LH.2.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
Summarize primary and secondary sources on unit‐specific items.
Central idea 6‐8.LH.2.2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source. Provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Summarize accurately how the people of the time would have felt about a particular issue.
Steps in a process 6‐8.LH.2.3: Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies.
Identify key steps in a description of a process.
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LITERACY IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
Structural Elements and Organization Meaning of words
and phrases
6‐8.LH.3.1: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history social studies.
Define unknown terms in a history text or source based on the context clues given surrounding the term.
6‐8.LH.3.2: Describe how a text presents information.
Describe the way in which a text is presented.
Author’s perspective and purpose
6‐8.LH.3.3: Identify aspects of a text that reveal author’s perspective or purpose.
Identify and explain specific examples that show an author’s perspective.
Synthesis and Connection of Ideas Visual information Print and digital
texts
6‐8.LH.4.1: Integrate visual information with other information in print and digital texts.
Integrate visual information print and digital texts.
Fact Opinion Reasoned
judgment
6‐8.LH.4.2: Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
Distinguish among fact and opinion and reasoned judgement.
6‐8.LH.4.3: Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in a primary & secondary source.
Compare and contrast two different views of the same topic.
Writing Genres Written arguments
6‐8.LH.5.1: Write arguments focused on discipline‐specific content.
Argue a side on a specific event in U.S. History.
Informative texts 6‐8.LH.5.2: Write informative texts, including analyses of historical events.
Write informative texts. Write analyses of
historical texts.
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LITERACY IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
The Research Process Analysis Reflection Research
6‐8.LH.7.3: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Correctly utilize data to back a position of analysis and reflection.