8th Grade History

Tuesday 4 June 2013:
Field Day Celebration

Monday 3 June 2013:
Graduation Practice

Friday 31 May 2013:
8th Grade Plays
Talent Show

Thursday 30 May 2013
1. Lesson: Life of Bl. Pope John Paul II
2. Assignment: None

Wednesday 29 May 2013:
1. Lesson: Life of Bl. Pope John Paul II
2. Assignment: None

Tuesday 28 May 2013
1. Lesson: WWII Essays
2. Assignment: None

Monday 27 May 2013:
Memorial Day - No School

Friday 24 May 2013:
1. Lesson: WWII Test
2. Assignment: None

Thursday 23 May 2013:
1. Lesson: Study Guide Preparation
2. Assignment: Prepare Study Guide for Friday

Wednesday 22 May 2013:
1. Lesson: Field Day!
2. Assignment: Prepare Study Guide for Friday

Tuesday 21 May 2013:
1. Lesson: Ending WWII
2. Assignment: Prepare Study Guide for Friday

Monday 20 May 2013:
1. Lesson: WWII in Europe
2. Assignment: Prepare Study Guide for Friday

Friday 17 May 2013
1. Lesson: The European Theatre of WWII
2. Assignment: None

Thursday 16 May 2013
1. Lesson: The Pacific Theatre of WWII
2. Assignment: America Goes to War Read & Response

Wednesday 15 May 2013
1. Lesson: Prelude to WWII
2. Assignment: None
Tuesday 14 May 2013
1. Lesson: Origins of WWII
2. Assignment: None

Monday 13 May 2013
1. Lesson: Origins of WWII
2. Assignment: None

Friday 10 May 2013
1. Lesson: Origins of WWII
2. Assignment: Finish Totalitarian Regimes Table

Thursday 9 May 2013
1. Lesson: Great Depression Poem/Ballads
2. Assignment: Finish Great Depression Poem/Ballad

Wednesday 8 May 2013:
1. Lesson: Great Depression Poem/Ballads
2. Assignment: None - Working on Great Depression poem/ballad in class

Tuesday 7 May 2013:
1. Lesson: Great Depression Poem/Ballads
2. Assignment: None - Working on Great Depression poem/ballad in class


Monday 6 May 2013:
1. The Dust Bowl
2. Assignment: None

Friday 3 May 2013:
1. Lesson: FDR Interviews - Responses to the Great Depression
2. Assignment: Finish TVA Flow chart

Thursday 2 May 2013:
1. Lesson: FDR and the Tennessee Valley Authority
2. Assignment: Working on Interviews in Class

Wednesday 1 May 2013:
1. Lesson: FDR Interviews
2. Assignment: None - Working on Interviews in Class

Tuesday 30 April 2013:
1. Lesson: Causes of the Great Depression
2. Assignment: Great Depression Picture Analysis - Reflection, Due Wednesday 1 May

Monday 29 April 2013:
1. Lesson: Problems of 1920s economy: buying on margin
2. Assignment: Read & Response for, "The End of Prosperity," due Tuesday 30 April

Friday 26 April 2013
**Grandparents Day**

Thursday 25 April 2013:
1. Lesson: 1920s Essay
2. Assignment: None

Wednesday 24 April 2013:
1. Lesson: 1920s Essay
2. Assignment: None

Tuesday 23 April 2013:
1. Lesson: 1920s Essay Outline
2. Assignment: Complete Essay Outline to be used this week, during class, to complete your essay/assessment for the 1920s

Monday 22 April 2013:
Parent Teacher Conferences
No School

Friday 19 April 2013
1. Lesson: The Jazz Age
2. Assignment: Read & Response due Tuesday 23 April

Thursday 18 April 2013:
1. Lesson: The 1920s Red Scare
2. Assignment: None

Wednesday 17 April 2013:
1. Lesson: The 1920s Red Scare
2. Assignment: None

Tuesday 16 April 2013:
1. Lesson: Presidents of the 1920s, Calvin Coolidge
2. Assignment: None

Monday 15 April 2013:
1. Lesson: Presidents of the 1920s, Warren G. Harding
2. Assignment: "Life During the 1920s" Read & Response due Tuesday 16 April

Friday 12 April 2013:
1. Lesson: WWI Unit Test
2. Assignment: Reading & Table for the section, "Boom Times," due Monday 15 April

Thursday 11 April 2013:
1. Lesson: WWI Unit Test
2. Assignment: None

Wednesday 10 April 2013:
1. Lesson: WWI years Unit Review for period 7, period 3 at Performance Series Testing
2. Assignment: Study
Tuesday 9 April 2013:
1. Lesson: WWI Review
2. Assignment: Study for WWI Unit Test

Monday 8 April 2013:
1. Lesson: Wilson's Fourteen Points Fail at Home, Treaty of Versailles
2. Assignment: Study for WWI Unit Test

Friday 5 April 2013:
1. Lesson: Wilson & the XIV Points
2. Assignment: Study
3. Upcoming: Chapters 9 & 10 Unit Test scheduled for Thursday 11 April

Thursday 4 April 2013:
1. Lesson: Wilson & the Treaty of Verailles
2. Assignment: Review Notes
3. Upcoming: WWI Unit Test: Thursday 11 April

Wednesday 3 April 2013:
1. Lesson: Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
2. Assignment: Analyzing Wilson's points in light of the MAIN causes of WWI

Tuesday 2 April 2013:
1. Lesson: US enters WWI, impact on America, impact on the front
2. Assignment: None

Monday 1 April 2013
Easter Monday
No School

Friday 29 March 2013:
Good Friday
No School

Thursday 28 March:
Holy Thursday
No School

Monday 1 April 2013
Easter Monday
No School

Friday 29 March 2013:
Good Friday
No School

Thursday 28 March:
Holy Thursday
No School

Notes for Wednesday 27 March 2013:
1. Lesson: Americans in WWI
2. Assignment: Read & Response for "Americans in WWI" due Tuesday 2 April 2013

Notes for Wednesday 27 March 2013:
1. Lesson: Changes to Europe after the fall of Rome
2. Assignment: Practie Geography - Geography Test scheduled for Wednesday 3 April 2013

Notes for Tuesday 26 March:
1. Lesson: Reviewing the MAIN causes of WWI
2. Assignment: Poetry describing the MAIN causes of WWI

Notes for Monday 25 March:
1. Lesson: The Homefront during WWI
2. Assignment: Reading and Notes for "America Prepares for War"

Notes for Friday 22 March:
1. Lesson: The Zimmermann Note (Period 3)
2. Assignment: Woodrow Wilson and WWI reflection writing due Monday 25 March (Period 3)


Notes for Thursday 21 March:
1. Lesson: The Zimmermann Note (Period 7)
2. Assignment: Woodrow Wilson and WWI reflection writing due Friday 22 March (Period 7)

Notes for Wednesday 20 March:
1. Lesson: Early Battles of WWI
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Tuesday 19 March:
**Feast of St. Joseph**
1. Lesson: Early Battles of WWI
2. Assignment: None - working on "Interviews from the Front" in class

Notes for Monday 18 March
1. Lesson: Events in Austria-Hungary that led to WWI
2. Assignment: Complete Flow Chart documenting the events that led to WWI

Week of Monday March 11
Happy Spring Break!

Notes for Friday 8 March:
1. Lesson: The MAIN Causes of WWI
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Thursday 7 March:
1. Lesson: The Four Main Causes of WWI
2. Assignment: Song/Poem explaining the Four Main Causes of WWI

Notes for Wednesday 6 March:
1. Lesson: Unit Test for, "The United States Becomes a World Power"
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Tuesday 5 March:
Snow Day - No School!

Notes for Monday 4 March:
1. Lesson: Unit Review
2. Assignment: Study for Unit Test Tuesday 5 March

Notes for Friday 1 March:
1. Lesson: Unit Review
2. Assignment: Prepare for America Becomes an Empire Unit Test, Tuesday 5 March

Notes for Thursday 28 February:
1. Lesson: End of the Spanish-American War
2. Assignment: Prepare for America Becomes an Empire Unit Test, Tuesday 5 March

Notes for Wednesday 27 February:
1. Lesson: Panama Canal
2. Assignment: Read & Response for, "The US & Latin America," due Thursday 28 February

Notes for Tuesday 26 February:
1. Lesson: Panama Canal
2. Assignment: Read & Response for, "The US & Latin America," due Thursday 28 February

Notes for Monday 25 February:
1. Lesson: The Yellow Press
2. Assignment: Read & Response for, "The US & Latin America," due Thursday 28 February

Notes for Friday 22 February:
1. Lesson: Imperial v. Anti-Imperial Arguments
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Thursday 21 February:
1. Lesson: The Road to the Spanish-American War
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Wednesday 20 February:
1. Lesson: The Road to the Spanish-American War
2. Assignment: Read & Resonse for, "The Spanish-American War," due Thursday 21 February

Notes for Tuesday 19 February:
1. Lesson: Theodore Roosevelt Documentary - TR as interventionist president
2. Assignment: Read & Resonse for, "The Spanish-American War," due Thursday 21 February

Notes for Monday 8 February:
President's Day Observed
No Classes

Notes for the week of Monday 11 February:
1. Lesson: Field Trip!
2. Assignments: None

Notes for Friday 8 February:
1. Lesson: Theodore Roosevelt Documentary - TR as interventionist president
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Thursday 7 February:
1. Alfred Thayer Mahan's argument for sea power
2. Assignment: Reflection Paragraph (10 sentences) identify the benefits/drawbacks of the increasingly interventionist U.S. foreign policy using specific examples from the notes. Due: Friday 8 February

Notes for Wednesday 6 February:
1. Lesson: The United States Gains Overseas Territories
2. Assignment: Finish U.S. Territories Table

Notes for Tuesday 5 February
1. Lesson: Continue Progressive Era Project - Instructions attached at menu on Right
2. Project Due - The Conclusion of Class Tuesday 5 February

Notes for Monday 4 February
1. Lesson: Continue Progressive Era Project - Instructions attached at menu on Right
2. Project Due - The Conclusion of Class Tuesday 5 February

Notes for Friday 1 Februray
**Student Appreciation Day**

Notes for Thursday 31 January:
**Faith Rally**

Notes for Wednesday 30 January:
1. Lesson: Begin Progressive Era Project - Instructions attached at menu on Right
2. Assignment: Project due Tuesday 5 February at the end of class
**Note time during CSW to work on the project. Also, class time Monday and Tuesday to work on project

Notes for Tuesday 29 January:
**Field Day**

Notes for Monday 28 January:
1. Lesson/Assignment: Time to work on Progressive Era Project due Tuesday 5 February

Notes for Friday 25 January:
1. Lesson: Temperance, Suffrage, and Civil Rights Reforms in the Progressive Era
2. Assignment: Read "The Progressive Presidents" and complete the notes table, pp. 670-4, due Monday 28 January

Notes for Thursday 24 January:
1. Lesson: Work Place Reforms during the Progressive Era
2. Assignment: Finish New Story with key vocabulary

Notes for Wednesday 23 January:
1. Lesson: Muckrakers and City Bosses collide over the graft
2. Assignment #1 on the Steffens and Plunkitt debate

Notes for Tuesday 22 January:
1. Lesson: Muckrakers as critics of political machines and monopolies
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Thursday 17 January:
1. Lesson: Ballot Reforms of the Progressive Era
--Direct Primaries, Recall, Initiative, Referendum, 17th Amendment
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Wednesday 16 January:
1. Lesson: Gilded Age Political Bosses v. Progressive Reformers
2. Assignment: Read & Response for the "Gilded Age," due Thursday 17 January

Notes for Tuesday 15 January:
1. Lesson: Defining the Gilded Age
2. Assignment: Finish the Progressive Reforms Web

Notes for Monday 14 January:
1. Lesson: Early Urban Reforms Unit Assessment
--Essay, Narrative, or Series of Short Stories
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Friday 11 January:
1. Lesson: Early Urban Reforms
--Riis, Addams, Kelley
2. Assignment: Prepare for Unit Assessment - Instructions attached on right side menu

Notes for Thursday 10 January:
1. Lesson: Urbanization
--Construction of New York Skyscrapers - 1906-1930
2. Assignment: Finish Read & Response for "City Life" due Friday 11 January
3. Upcoming: Unit Assessment: In Class Writing, Open Notes on Monday 14 January

Notes for Wednesday 9 January:
1. Lesson: Industrial growth transforms the layout and uses of the city
--Postcard Activity
2. Assignment: Read & Response for "City Life" due Friday 11 January

Notes for Tuesday 8 January:
1. Lesson: Industrial growth transforms the layout and uses of the city
--Postcard Activity
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Monday 7 January:
1. Lesson: Growth of U.S. Cities
--Industry, Agriculture, Immigration, Migration
--The U.S shifts from an agricultural to an industrial nation
2. Assignment: Read & Response for "Growth of Cities," due Tuesday 8 January

Notes for Friday 4 January:
1. Lesson: Ellis Island and Immigrant Life in New York
2. Assignment: Immigrant Reflectio - write the story of an immigrant - due Monday 7 January

Notes for Thursday 3 January:
1. Lesson: Benefits and Challenges of Immigration
2. Assignment: Read and Response for "A New Wave of Immigration" due Friday 4 January

Notes for Wednesday 2 January:
1. Lesson: Push and Pull Factors of Immigration
2. Assignment: Read and Response for "A New Wave of Immigration" due Friday 4 January

Notes for Friday 21 December:
1. Lesson: Make up Geography Bee and/or Civil War Bingo Review
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Thursday 20 December:
1. Lesson: Geography Bee
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Wednesday 19 December:
1. Lesson: Geography Bee
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Tuesday 18 December:
1. Lesson: Second Industrial Age Unit Test
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Monday 17 December:
1. Lesson: Unit Review
2. Assignment: Study for the Unit Test on the Second Industrial Revolution scheduled for Tuesday 18 December

Notes for Friday 14 December:
1. Lesson: Homestead Strike
2. 2. Assignment: Study for the Unit Test on the Second Industrial Revolution scheduled for Tuesday 18 December

Notes for Thursday 13 December:
1. Lesson: The Origins of Labor Unions
2. Assignment: Study for the Unit Test on the Second Industrial Revolution scheduled for Tuesday 18 December

Notes for Wednesday 12 December:
1. Lesson: Captains of Industry and Robber Barons
2. Assignment: Read & Reflection: Captains of Industry v. Robber Barons
3. Upcoming: 3. Upcoming: Unit Test on the Second Industrial Revolution scheduled for Tuesday 18 December
4. Upcoming: Geography Bee scheduled for Wednesday 19 December

Notes for Tuesday 11 December:
1. Lesson: Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons
. Assignment: None
3. Upcoming: Unit Test on the Sedond Industrial Revolution scheduled for Tuesday 18 December
4. Upcoming: Geography Bee scheduled for Wednesday 19 December

Notes for Monday 10 December
1. Lesson: Inventors
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Friday 7 December:
1. Lesson: Inventors
2. Assignment: Read & Response, The Second Industrial Revolution due Monday 10 December 2012

Notes for Thursday 6 December:
1. Lesson: The Making of Steel and the Second Industrial Revolution
2. Assignment: Read & Response - The Second Industrial Revolution due Monday 10 December 2012

Notes for Wednesday 5 December:
No School - Broken Water Main

Notes for Tuesday 4 December:
1. Lesson: American West Essay
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Monday 3 December:
1. Lesson: Outline for The American West Unit Essay
2. Assignment: Finish Outline for Essay - attached on right

Notes for Friday 30 November:
1. Lesson: Rise of Populism in the West
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Thursday 29 November:
1. Lesson: Exodusters & Immigrants move West
--opportunities: Homestead & Morrill Acts
2. Assignment: Read, "Farmers' Political Groups," pp. 602-604 & summarize the conflict between farmers and business - Due Friday 30 November

Notes for Wednesday 28 November:
1. Lesson: Origins of the Conflict between the Plains Indians & American Settlers
2. Assignment: Complete the Plains Indians/American Settlers Timeline

Notes for Tuesday 27 November:
1. Lesson: The Gold Rush - Documentary
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Monday 26 November:
1. Lesson: Economic Opportunities and Effects of Mining and Ranching
2. Assignment: Table - Economic Opportunities and Effects of building the Railroad in the West

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Notes for Wednesday 21 November:
1. Lesson: Cattle Kingdom Comic Books
2. Assignment: Finish Comic Books

Notes for Tuesday 20 November:
1. Lesson: Cattle Kingdom Comic Books
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Monday 19 November:
1. Lesson: The Cattle Kingdom
2. Assignment: Completing in class: Comic Book - the Cattle Drive

Notes for Friday 16 Novemver:
1. Lesson: Americans Move West
2. Assignment: Moving West Map

Notes for Thursday 15 November
1. Lesson: Reconstruction Unit Test
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Wednesday 14 November
1. Lesson: Reconstruction Unit Review
2. Assignment: prepare for Reconstruction Unit Test, Thursday 15 November

Notes for Tuesday 13 November
1. Lesson: The origins of segregation and Jim Crow in the South
2. Assignment: prepare for Reconstruction Unit Test, Thursday 15 November

Notes for Monday 12 November
1. Lesson: The end of Reconstruction in the South
2. Assignment: prepare for Reconstruction Unit Test, Thursday 15 November

Notes for Friday 9 November
** No School **

Notes for Thursday 8 November:
1. Lesson: Conduct Impeachment Simulation
2. Assignment: Johnson Opinion Reflection: Was Congress right to impeach the president?

Notes for Wednesday 7 November:
1. Lesson: Impeachment of President Johnson Simulation
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Tuesday 6 November
1. Lesson: Simulation, Impeachment Process
2. Assignment: Read & Response, "Reconstruction in the South," due Wednesday 7 November

Notes for Monday 5 November
1. Lesson: Radical Republicans v. President Andrew Johnson, Continued
2. Assignment: Read & Response, "Reconstruction in the South," due Wednesday 7 November

Notes for Friday 2 November
1. Lesson: Radical Republicans v. President Andrew Johnson
--XIII & XIV Amendments, Freedmen's Bureau
2. Assignment: None Tonight

Notes for the Feast of All Saints
1 November 2012
1. Lesson: Reconstruction Skits
2. Assingment: Finish read & response

Notes for Wednesday 31 October:
**Happy Halloween**
1. Lesson: Continued, Comparing & Contrasting Plans for Reconstruction
2. Assignment: Read & Response, "The Fight over Reconstruction," due Friday 2 November

Notes for Tuesday 30 October:
1. Lesson: Comparing & Constrasting the Plans for Reconstruction
2. Assignment: Finish Read & Response for "Rebuilding the South"

Notes for Monday 29 October:
1. Lesson: Congressional Plan for Reconstruction, President Johnson's plan for Reconstuction
2. Assignment: Read & Response for "Rebuilding the South," due Wednesday 31 October

Notes for Friday 26 October:
1. Lesson: Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction
2. Assignment: None due to afternoon class out for Rake-A-Difference

Notes for Thursday 25 October:
1. Lesson: Rights & Responsibilities of Citizenship
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Wednesday 24 October:
1. Lesson: Civil War Unit Test
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Tuesday 23 October:
1. Lesson: Civil War Unit Review
2. Assignment: Prepare for Wednesday's Civil War Unit Test

Notes for Monday 22 October:
1. Lesson: Sherman's March to the Sea
--Total War
2. Assignment: Study for Unit Test - Wednesday 24 October

Notes for Thursday 18 & Friday 19 October
--No School--

Notes for Wednesday 17 October:
1. Lesson: Finish Civil War News Articles & Maps
2. Assignment - Finish Antything remaining on the newspaper project & begin studying for the Civil War Unit Test

Notes for Tuesday 16 October 2012:
1. Lesson: Turning the Tide of the War
--Gettysburg
2. Assignment: In class - working on final newspaper article
3. Upcoming: Civil War Unit Test slated for Wednesday 24 October

Notes for Monday 15 October 2012:
1. Lesson: The homefront during the U.S. Civil War
--African Americans, Women, the draft, and the economy
2. Assignment: Notes grid for "The Tide of the War Turns," due Tuesday 16 October

Notes for Friday 12 October 2012:
1. Lesson: None - Parent-Teacher Conferences
2. Assignment: Fifteen-Twenty minutes review of notes on the Civil War material covered thus far

Notes for Thursday 11 October 2012:
1. Lesson: Civil War Review: Causes, Strenghts & Weaknesses of the Union and Confderacy, early outcomes of the war in the East & West
2.Assignment: Fifteen-Twenty minutes review of notes on the Civil War material covered thus far

Notes for Wednesday 10 October 2012:
1. Lesson: Review of the Civil War Timeline
2. Assignment: None - time to attend the All in God's Plan event

Notes for Tuesday 9 October 2012:
1. Lesson: General Grant's strategy at Vicksburg
2. Assignment: Finish Civil War Newspaper Article & Map #2

Notes for Monday 8 October 2012:
1. Lesson: Grant's Strategy in the West
--Forts Henry & Donelson, Battle of Shiloh, the taking of the Mississippi
2. Assignments: Western strategy article and map for Civil War Newspaper, due Wednesday 10 October 2012

Notes for Friday 5 October 2012:
1. Lesson: None, Leadership Retreat
2. Assignment: Finish Antietam Reflection Question from Thursday if not complete.

Notes for Thursday 4 October 2012:
1. Lesson: Antietam & the Emancipation Proclamation DVD
2. Assignment: Finish Antietam reflection question.
3. Enjoy the Leadership Retreat!

Notes for Wednesday 3 October 2012:
1. Lesson: Battles Review, Antietem/Emancipation Proclamation DVD
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Tuesday 2 October 2012:
1. Lesson: Antietam, Ironclads
--America's worst day at war, the industrial turn of naval warfare
2. Assignment: Read and note in the graphic organizer provided in class section 16.3 "The War in the West" pp. 522-525

Notes for Monday 1 October 2012:
1. Lesson: Early defeats of the Union
--Seven Days' Battles, Second Battle of Bull Run
2. Assignment: Civil War Newspaper--Article 1, Map 1 due Tuesday 2 October

Notes for Friday 28 September 2012:
1. Lesson - None - Teacher Workshop
2. Assignment: Play Outside!

Notes for Thursday 27 September 2012:
1. Lesson: Civil War Newspapers
--Begin Construction of a Civil War newspaper from the perspective of North or South
--Student choice of perspective
2. Assignment: First news article and first map for the paper due Tuesday 2 October

Notes for Wednesday 26 September 2012:
1. Lesson: First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) & The Seven Days' Battles
--The Union fails to achieve a quick victory by capturing Richmond
2. Assignment: None

Notes for Tuesday 25 September 2012
1. Lesson: Lincoln & Ft. Sumpter
-Why the South fired the first shots of the U.S. Civil War
2. Homework: Read and note in the graphic organizer provided in class section 16.2 "The War in the East" pp. 516-521
-Notes will be used for an in-class newspaper project

Notes for Monday 24 September 2012:
1. Lesson: Comparing and contrasting resources of the North and South
-Understanding how and why the North and South developed strategies to win the Civil War
2. Homework: Final Draft of Read and Response for 16.1, "The War Begins"
-pp. 510-515, paragraph response due Tuesday 25 September
--Attached under assignments


Notes for Friday 21 September 2012:
1. Lesson: Predicting Strategies of the North & South
2. Comparing/Contrasting natural, industrial, and agricultural resources
3. Homework: Rough draft of 16.1 Read and Response due Monday, Final draft due Tuesday

Notes for Thursday 20 September 2012:
1.Lesson: Chapter 15 Test: "A Divided Nation"
2. Homework: None