Periods 1,3, 4, 5 ~ US History
· 8TH GRADE STANDARDS
The students will go through the Lesson 1 on HT4 – looking at what it takes to be
a Historian, Anthropologist, and Archeologist. They will then look at Geography
and how that influences the study of history
For Constitution Day the students will look at “the Preamble” and we will break it
down and talk about how it relates to the country today.
Over this year ~ you will be Studying about our country. The Life and Lives, the Geography and Climate ~ Growth and Conflict
US History Framework: The eighth grade course of study begins with an intensive review of the major ideas, issues, and events that shaped the founding of the nation. In their study of this era, students will view American history through the lens of a people who were trying—and are still trying—to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Throughout their eighth grade United States history and geography course, students will confront the themes of freedom, equality, and liberty and their changing definitions over time. This course will also explore the geography of place, movement, and region, starting with the Atlantic Seaboard and then exploring American westward expansion and economic development, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and finally, industrialization. Covering parts of three centuries, the historical content outlined in this chapter is both substantial and substantive, which poses a significant challenge for teachers, with limited time for in-depth study. In order to address this challenge, this chapter is organized into five large sections that incorporate relevant questions that can help students understand how individual events and people comprise a larger narrative explanation of our past.
As students learn American history from the late 1700s through the end of the nineteenth century, they will develop reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills that will enhance their understanding of the content. As in earlier grades, students should be taught that history is an investigative discipline, one that is continually reshaped based on primary-source research and on new perspectives that can be uncovered. Students should be encouraged to read multiple primary and secondary documents; to understand multiple perspectives; to learn about how some things change over time and others tend not to; and they should appreciate that each historical era has its own context and it is up to the student of history to make sense of the past on these terms and by asking questions about it.
The standards for the History classes:
History Focus in the Standards
CA HSS Analysis Skills (6-8 grades) research, evidence, and Point of View
CA CC SS for ELA/Literacy – RH 6-8.1, 2, 6, 8, 9, SL 8.4, L.8.6
CA ELD Standard ELD.P.8.1, 6a, 6b, 7, 9, 11, ELD.P11.8.a
-- Period 2 ~ Multicultural Studies/College Ed ~ Art and Poetry
Looking at the Principles of Art and each component – They will create their own organizer using their own words and examples.
They will write poems
LImerick poem – teach the system –nonsensical and huymorous
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables
The sky is so blue.
It looks like blue, blue water.
I love to watch clouds.
Line 1: 7 syllables/count
Line 2: 7 syllables/count
Line 3: 5 syllables/count
Line 4: 5 syllables/count
Line 5: 7 syllables/count
"A silly young fellow named Ben
swallowed his wristwatch, an then
He coughed up the date
and the time on this plate, m-
April first, twenty seconds past ten."
Jack Prelutsky
Art
Teaching Art Skills
Looking at the Principles of Art and each component – They will create their own
organizer using their own words and examples.
Grade Eight
Visual and Performing Arts: Visual Arts Content Standards.
1.0 ARTISTIC PERCEPTION
Processing, Analyzing, and Responding to Sensory Information Through the Language and
Skills Unique to the Visual Arts - Students perceive and respond to works of art, objects in nature, events, and the environment. They also use the vocabulary of the visual arts to express their observations.
Develop Perceptual Skills and Visual Arts Vocabulary
• 1.1 Use artistic terms when describing the intent and content of works of art.
Analyze Art Elements and Principles of Design
• 1.2 Analyze and justify how their artistic choices contribute to the expressive quality of their own works of art.
Poetry -
English Language Arts Standards » Reading: Literature » Grade 1 » 10
With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 8
English Language Arts Standards » Standard 10: Range, Quality, &
Complexity » Range of Text Types for 6-12
Students in grades 6-12 apply the Reading standards to the following range of text types, with texts
selected from a broad range of cultures and periods.
Literature Informational Text
Stories Dramas Poetry Literary Nonfiction and Historical, Scientific, and
Technical Texts
Includes the subgenres of
adventure stories, historical
fiction, mysteries, myths, science
fiction, realistic fiction, allegories,
parodies, satire, and graphic
novels
Includes one-act
and multi-act
plays, both in
written form and
on film
Includes the subgenres of
narrative poems, lyrical
poems, free verse poems,
sonnets, odes, ballads,
and epics
Includes the subgenres of exposition, argument, and
functional text in the form of personal essays, speeches,
opinion pieces, essays about art or literature, biographies,
memoirs, journalism, and historical, scientific, technical, or
economic accounts (including digital sources) written for a
broad audience
Hispanic Heritage American Biography
* Choose a person of American Heritage (Ms Naz needs to approve -- only 1 students in the class for each person)
* Complete the Biography Graphic Organizer
* Answer these questions about the person's life (childhood, youth, Young Adult …) Who, What, When, Where, Why and How)
* Print a Picture of the person
CLASS EXPECTRATIONS ~~ ALL CLASSES
√ Let us Be Kind, Be Gentle, Show Care with the Love ~ all the time.
In our class: ~~ Our Agreements:
~ Safe ~~ ~ Respect
~ Fun ~~ ~ Focus
~ Learn ~~ ~ Participate
Class NORMS
* NO PASSES (ESPECIALLY BATHROOM AND GOING TO ANOTHER CLASS TO GET SOMETHING THEY LEFT
* This is a safe place to learn
* Respect and Cooperate
* Presuming Positive Intention
* Raise your hand and wait to be called on
* Be a listener ready to learn
* Work quietly
* Quality ~ Quality ~ Quality counts
* As you enter the room
~ Come in Genteelly (walk, come & sit-down)
~ Be ready to Learn
* NO ELECTRONIC DEVICES other than the IPads
* LEAVE TEACHER ITEMS/MATERIALS (EVERYTHING IS MY STUFF) because the students should use their own supplies
* As you leave the room
~ Pick-up and clean up before you leave (push your chair in – 6TH PUT UP YOUR CHAIRS)
To Get Credit
* Turn Work in On Time
* Proper heading
* Neat work
* Clean paper
* Follow instructions
* Cursive Writing
* Write Problem/Questions
* ‘Draw – 5 colors (color pencils)
* “Own Words”
* Diagrams – labels and details
* Lined paper (no tear outs from notebooks)
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