8th Grade

Social Studies

September 2012
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

3
Labor Day

In Service

In Service

Rules

Baseline Assessment

10
1776 -1865 define reconstruction

11
freedmans bureau / carpetbagger/scalawags

12
Sharecropping

13
Reconstruction Amendments

14 21 28
Unit 1 DBQ: Reconstruction

17 24

No School

18 25

No School

19
Poll Taxes / grandfather clauses/ literacy tests

20
kkk

26

Plessy v. Ferguson / Segregation

Read Aloud: Ida Wells

No School

27
Unit 1 DBQ: Reconstruction

8th Grade

Social Studies

October 2012
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

1
Unit 1 DBQ: Reconstruction

2
Transcontinental Railroad

3
Mining Boom

4
Homestead Act

5 12 19
Unit 2 DBQ: Westward Expansion

8
Columbus Day

9
Cattle Trails and Cowboys

10
Buffalo

11
Sitting Bull / Little Big Horn

NO SCHOOL

15
Wounded Knee

16
Geronimo Read Aloud

17
Unit 2 DBQ: Westward Expansion

18
Unit 2 DBQ: Westward Expansion

22
Corporations

23
Andrew Carnegie

24
John D. Rockefeller

25
Inventions: Communications

26

29
Inventions: Travel

30
Worlds Fair Project

31
Worlds Fair Project

8th Grade

Social Studies

November 2012
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

1
Industrialization Read Aloud

2 9 16 23 30
Unit 4 DBQ: Immigration

5
Unit 3 DBQ: Industrialization

6
Election Day

7
Unit 3 DBQ: Industrialization

8
Unit 3 DBQ: Industrialization

No Students

12 19

No School

13
Old v. New Immigrants

14
Steerage

15
Tenements

20
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

21
Film: Ken Burns New York

22
Thanksgiving

Sweatshops

No School

No School

26
Nativist Movement

27
Immigration Read Aloud

28
Unit 4 DBQ: Immigration

29
Unit 4 DBQ: Immigration

8th Grade

Social Studies

December 2012
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

3
Child Labor

4
Unions / Samuel Gompers

5
Haymarket Riot / Pullman Strike

6
Temperance Movement: Carrie Nation

7 14 21
Film: ???

10
The Jungle

11
The Jungle

12
Theodore Roosevelt: Trustbuster

13
Read Aloud: Susan B. Anthony

17
Unit 5 DBQ: Progressivism

18
Unit 5 DBQ: Progressivism

19
Unit 5 DBQ: Progressivism

20
Film: ???

24 31

No School

25

Christmas Day

26

No School

27

No School

28

No School

No School

8th Grade

Social Studies

January 2013
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

1
New Year's Day

2
Acquisition of Alaska

3
Acquisition of Hawaii

4 11 18
Unit 6 DBQ: Imperialism

No School

7
Spanish American War

8
Spanish American War

9
Spanish American War

10
Spanish American War Newspaper Project

14
Panama Canal

15
Imperialism Read Aloud

16
Unit 6 DBQ: Imperialism

17
Unit 6 DBQ: Imperialism

21
M L King Day

22
Underlying Causes of WWI

23
Outbreak of WWI

24
Lusitania / Zimmerman Telegram

25

No School

28
Trench Warfare / Weapons of WWI

29
Home-front

30
Russian Revolution/ Communism

31
Treaty of Versailles/14 pts / League of Nations

8th Grade

Social Studies

February 2013
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

1 4
WWI Read Aloud: Harlem Hellfighters?

5
Unit 7 DBQ: WWI

6
Unit 7 DBQ: WWI

7
Unit 7 DBQ: WWI

8 15 22

11
Economic Boom Cycle

12
Advertising Revolution

13
Impact of Prohibition

14
New Roles for Women

18 25

Presidents' Day No School

Great Migration

19 26

No School

20 27
Jazz

No School

21 28

No School

No School

Harlem Renaissance

Read Aloud: 1920s

8th Grade

Social Studies

March 2013
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

1
Unit 8 DBQ: 1920s

4
Unit 8 DBQ: 1920s

5
Unit 8 DBQ: 1920s

6
Stock Market Crash

7
Hoovervilles and Breadlines

8 15 22
Unit 9 DBQ: Great Depression

11
FDR

12
New Deal Agencies

13
Dust Bowl

14
Dust Bowl

18
Great Depression Newspaper Project

19
Great Depression Read Aloud

20
Unit 9 DBQ: Great Depression

21
Unit 9 DBQ: Great Depression

25

No School

26

No School

27

No School

28

No School

29
Good Friday

No School

8th Grade

Social Studies

April 2013
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

1 8

No School

2 9

No School

3
Rise of Dictators

4
Pearl Harbor

5 12 19
Unit 10 DBQ: WWII

10
D-Day

11
Holocaust

Japanese Internment Camps

Home-front

15
Hiroshima and Nagasaki

16
WWII Read Aloud

17
Unit 10 DBQ: WWII

18
Unit 10 DBQ: WWII

22
Iron Curtain, Containment

23
Berlin Air Lift, Chinese Revolution, Korean War

24
Vietnam

25
Vietnam

26

29
Arms Race

30
McCarthyism

8th Grade

Social Studies

May 2013
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

1
Fall of Communism

2
Cold War Read Aloud

3 10 17 24
Unit 12 DBQ: Civil Rights

6
Unit 11 DBQ: Cold War

7
Unit 11 DBQ: Cold War

8
Unit 11 DBQ: Cold War

9
Segregation in the South

13
Montgomery Bus Boycott

14
Brown v. the Board of Education

15
Little Rock 9

16
Dr Martin Luther King

20
Malcolm X

21
MLK vs. Malcolm X

22
Civil Rights Read Aloud

23
Unit 12 DBQ: Civil Rights

27
Memorial Day

28
Unit 12 DBQ: Civil Rights

29

30

31

No School

8th Grade

Social Studies

June 2013
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

3 10 17 24

4 11 18 25

5 12 19 26

In Service No Students

7 14 21 28

13 20 27

LAST DAY!