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All 8th graders must take a

Social Studies TAKS test.

 

2008-2009

1st Six Weeks Assignment Calendar

1st Six Weeks Topics

TAKS Objectives

1-The students will demonstrate an understanding of issues and events in U.S. history.

2-The students will demonstrate an understanding of geographic influences on historical issues and events.

3-The students will demonstrate an understanding of economic and social influences on historical

      issues and events.

4-The students will demonstrate an understanding of political influences on historical issues and events.

5-The students will use critical-thinking skills to analyze social studies information.

Class Objectives  (red-Master objectives)

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the following topics:

  • Locate the major physical features in the United States.
  • Recall the following dates-1607, 1776, 1787,1803 and 1861-1865.
  • Identify the major eras in United States history through 1877.
    • Exploration, Colonization, and Revolutionary War Era
  • Describe European Exploration and Settlement of North America.
  • Discuss the economic, social and political reasons for establishing the English Thirteen Colonies.
  • Evaluate the life and culture in the English Thirteen Colonies.
  • Reenact the debate over declaring independence.
  • Examine the events that led the colonists to declare independence.
  • Discuss the Declaration of Independence.
  • Organize the major battle of the American Revolution in sequence.
  • Compare the major people of the Revolutionary Era.
  • Justify the reasons for fighting the Revolutionary War.
  • Analyze the Articles of Confederation, plus the weaknesses.
  • Evaluate the creation of the United States Constitution, including the events at the Constitutional Convention.
  • Discuss the compromises made at the Constitutional Convention and the new plan to govern the nation.
  • Describe the system of checks and balances, and separation of powers between the three branches of government.
  • Analyze the contents of the United States Constitution.
  • Explain the importance of Northwest Ordinance to U.S. expansion.
  • Explain the amendment process and ratifications of the Constitution.
  • Explain the need for adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution, and discuss the reasons for each of the first ten amendments.
  • Describe and define unalienable rights.
  • Discuss Hamilton's economic plan for the new republic in the late 1700s.
  • Identify and analyze the first five presidents of the United States, including their domestic and foreign polices.
  • Compare and Contrast the influences of Jefferson and Hamilton's political views on the early Republic.
  • Describe the beginnings of political parties in America.
  • Discuss the debate over foreign policy as our nation faces threats from powerful European nations.
  • Evaluate the neutrality of the United States in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
  • Discuss the causes of the War of 1812 and reasons for not staying neutral.
  • Step back in time and experience life in a northern city and on a southern plantation.
  • Explore the differences that would ultimately shatter the unity of the country.
  • Evaluate Andrew Jackson, one of the most colorful presidents in American History.
  • Discuss the formation of the modern Democratic Party.
  • Discuss Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion.
  • Debate the actions of the United States as it acquired territory across the continent.
  • Explain the Monroe Doctrine.
  • Describe the Mexican contributions to the Southwest.
  • Describe the impact of science and technology on the economic development of the U.S.
  • Compare the different reform movements that changed the American culture.
  • Analyze slavery from the beginning to the end in United States history.
  • Experience the frustration of those who tried to save the country from Civil War.
  • Discuss the attempts to compromise between the North and the South in the mid-1800s.
  • Discuss the annexation of Texas in the United States.
  • Describe the causes of the war with Mexico and the Mexican Cession.
  • Analyze landmark Supreme Court cases.
  • Discuss the movement of people to the western United States.
  • Discuss the causes of the Civil War.
  • Analyze the major people and battles of the Civil War.
  • Explain the outcome of the Civil War and the period of Reconstruction.

 

 

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2007-2008

 

2nd Six Weeks Assignment Calendar

2nd Six Weeks Topics

  • Discuss the Age of Colonization.   
  • Discuss the failures at Roanoke Island.     
  • Describe European Exploration and Settlement of North America.
  • Discuss the economic, social and political reasons for establishing the English Thirteen Colonies. 
  • Evaluate the life and culture in the English Thirteen Colonies.

3rd Six Weeks Assignment Calendar

3rd Six Weeks Topics

 

  • Reenact the debate over declaring independence.
  • Examine the events that led the colonists to declare independence.
  • Discuss the Declaration of Independence.
  • Organize the major battle of the American Revolution in sequence.
  • Compare the major people of the Revolutionary Era.
  • Justify the reasons for fighting the Revolutionary War.

 

4th Six Weeks Assignment Calendar

4th Six Weeks Assignment Calendar

 

5th Six Weeks Assignment Calendar

5th Six Weeks Assignment Calendar

  • Discuss Hamilton's economic plan for the new republic in the late 1700s.
  • Identify and analyze the first five presidents of the United States, including their domestic and foreign polices.
  • Compare and Contrast the influences of Jefferson and Hamilton's political views on the early Republic.
  • Describe the beginnings of political parties in America.
  • Discuss the debate over foreign policy as our nation faces threats from powerful European nations.
  • Evaluate the neutrality of the United States in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
  • Discuss the causes of the War of 1812 and reasons for not staying neutral.
  • Step back in time and experience life in a northern city and on a southern plantation.
  • Explore the differences that would ultimately shatter the unity of the country.
  • Evaluate Andrew Jackson, one of the most colorful presidents in American History.
  • Discuss the formation of the modern Democratic Party.
  • Discuss Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion.
  • Debate the actions of the United States as it acquired territory across the continent.
  • Explain the Monroe Doctrine.
  • Describe the impact of science and technology on the economic development of the U.S.
  • Compare the different reform movements that changed the American culture.

 

 

6th Six Weeks Assignment Calendar

6th Six Weeks Assignment Calendar

  • Analyze slavery from the beginning to the end in United States history.
  • Experience the frustration of those who tried to save the country from Civil War.
  • Discuss the attempts to compromise between the North and the South in the mid-1800s.
  • Discuss the annexation of Texas in the United States.
  • Describe the causes of the war with Mexico and the Mexican Cession.
  • Analyze landmark Supreme Court cases.
  • Discuss the movement of people to the western United States.
  • Discuss the causes of the Civil War.
  • Analyze the major people and battles of the Civil War.
  • Explain the outcome of the Civil War and the period of Reconstruction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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