8th Grade History Plans 3rd Quarter

(Homework is due every Wednesday)Week #1 Read the chapter before I teach the lessons, pop quiz on Wednesday over the reading.

Monday                  No School  

Tuesday                Give Qz over Chapter 13   2nd 1/2 cover pages 274-285 this week.
                                Watch video Uncle Tom's Cabin   (25 min.) Movie Sheet

 Wednesday   1-7-09  Homework  Quest #  2-4,6-10 p 281; 1,3,6,7 p 285
                                 Teach Pages             274- 276         Compromise of 1850

Thursday             Teach pages   276-280        National Harmony Ends
                                   Pop quiz today over reading.
                             Teach pgs    280-282   Lincoln becomes President, First Battle

Friday                 Finish Ch 14 1st 1/2  282-285  Adv of the North and South

Week #2   Read the chapter before I teach the lessons, pop quiz on Wednesday over the reading.

Monday              Give Quiz today over   Ch 14 1st 1/2 
                           Have students complete p 59 and 60 in Geo wkbks after quiz.
                           Watch 6min video on Ship and Train Disasters

Tuesday              Start chapter 14 2nd 1/2    and cover pages 286-307 this week.
                           Teach Pages 286-294                          Civil War Battles

 Wednesday    1-14-09    Homework Assignment    1-3,5 p 298; 2,4-7 p 304
                                                 Pop quiz today over reading.
                           Teach pages  294-298                         Civil War Ends

Thursday            Teach pages 299-303     Reconstruction Era     
                        Geo Workbook Civil War Map p  67    Answers in Textbook p 289

Friday                 Finish chapter 14  2nd 1/2   p303-307   Building a New South

Week # 2 Objectives:
Students will Learn about the Civil War battles and Reconstruction

Week #3   Read the chapter before I teach the lessons, pop quiz on Wednesday over the reading.

Monday               Parent Teacher Conferences  No School    Martin Luther King day  No School

Tuesday                 Give quiz over Chapter 14 2nd 1/2   Watch Dynamite 3 min video

                                           Teach pg 310-312  Great Am Inventors  
                                                              Watch 42 min Thomas Edison Tech video

Wednesday           1-21-09      Homework Assignment Questions # 1-4 & Id's p 313
                              Teach pages 312-316   Wonders of Technology         

Thursday            Teach Pages 316    Transcontinental Railroad
                                Watch The Coming of the Iron Horse 25 min video

Friday                Watch The Steel Industry 14 min video then cover:
                           Teach Pages 316-318    Technology Today

Week # 3 Objectives:
Students will Learn about the application of science to Industry

Week #4   Read the chapter before I teach the lessons, pop quiz on Wednesday over the reading.

Monday Wk 4        Give Geo project  Eastern U S p 59  60  Answers p 22  23
                                                      first then give quiz over Chapter 15  1st  1/2     

Tuesday               Start chapter 15  2nd  1/2   and cover pages  318-323  this week.
                            Teach Pages   318-320              Skyscrapers and medicine

 Wednesday    1-28-09    Homework Assignment    1,2 & Id's p 323
                                        Give Pop quiz today over reading.
                                      
                         Teach pages 320-321 Entrepreneurs of American Business

                         Watch American West Transforming America 27min video
                                
Thursday              Teach Pages   321- 323        Rise of the Oil Industry        
                            Geography project  Central U S  p 61  62 Answers p 24   25

Friday              Finish Ch 15  2nd   1/2 p323   Results Free Enterprise System
                               Watch Gilded Age Transforming America 25 min video

Week # 4 Objectives:
Students will Learn about the rise of post Civil War technology

Week #5   Read the chapter before I teach the lessons, pop quiz on Wednesday over the reading.

Monday Wk 5       Hand out Geo Wkbks and complete p 63 before quiz.
                              Geography project  63   Answers in textbook p 251 , 253
                               Watch Moving to the City Transforming America 27 min video
                        
                    Give qz over Ch 15  2nd 1/2  Watch St. Lawerance Sea Way 10 min video.

Tuesday                Start chapter 16  1st  1/2       and cover pages  326-337  this week.
                             Teach pages 326-329         Cities in the Gilded Age 8gd

Wednesday    2-04-09   Homework Assignment    # 1-5 p 329
                                             Pop quiz today over reading.  Watch Annie Oakley 6 min video
                              Teach pages 329-332       Great Plains  Indians

Thursday               Teach Pages 332-334        Pioneer Life on Great Plains 
                             Geography project Western U S  p 65  66  Answers  p 26  27
                             Students can take a pop quiz over Page 66 of workbook
                             if they finish early. Or Watch A Dream Deffered Transforming America 27 min video

Friday                   Teach Pages 334-337          Politics in the Gilded Age
                                                                            Watch Wounded Knee 6 min video

Week # 5 Objectives:
Students will Learn about the American Life after the Civil War

Week #6   Read the chapter before I teach the lessons, pop quiz on Wednesday over the reading.

Monday Wk 6      Give quiz over Ch 16  1st  1/2  and map of Western US
                             Watch 8 min video on Animals that are Weird

Tuesday                Start chapter 16  2nd  1/2  and cover pages  338-346 this week.
                             Teach Pages 338-340        Presidents Cleveland and Harrison

 Wednesday   2-11-09   Homework Assignment  Answer all questions p  335 and p 341-
                                   If ready to be corrected on Wednesday only do # 1-8 p 341
                                     Give  Pop quiz today over reading.
                                  
                             Teach pages 341-344    Pres Cleveland (2nd Term)  & McKinley

Thursday              Teach Pages 344-346    Arts in the Gilded Age  
                             Geography project Pacific States p 69  70  Answers p 28   29

Friday                 Watch Populist Challenge Transforming America 27 min video
                            Finish  Geo project Pacific States p 69  70  Give pop qz over p 70
                                                  Watch Hawaii 2.5 min video

Week # 6 Objectives:
Students will Learn about the Presidents after the Civil War

Week #7   Read the chapter before I teach the lessons, pop quiz on Wednesday over the reading.

Monday Wk 7        Give quiz over Ch 16  2nd  1/2 and map of Pacific States
                               Watch 10 min video on Warships "The Most"

Tuesday                 Start chapter 17  1st 1/2  and cover pages  350-362  this week.
                               Teach pages 350-353     Spanish American War

 Wednesday   2-18-09  Hmwk   Answer 1-11 p 356 or      If ready to be corrected on
                              Wednesday only do 1-11 p 356  Girls Even, Boys are odd
                                 Pop quiz today over reading.
                              Teach pages 353-355    Results of the Spanish Am War  
                                                          Watch TR American Lion 47 min video

Thursday              Mr. Cap in OKC   
                             Geography project  Mexico p 71-  72    Answers on p 30   31 
                             After map project is completed 25 min max, watch video on
                              Engines 43 min.                             

Friday                    Teach Pages 357-361   Roosevelt's domestic Affairs   

Week # 7 Objectives:
Students will Learn about the Spanish American War

Week #8     Read the chapter before I teach the lessons, pop quiz on Wednesday over the reading.

Monday Wk 10        President's Day No School if snow day makeup then give Quiz on Monday

Tuesday                      Give quiz over Chapter 17  1st  1/2
                                   Give pop quiz over State the Facts and Map Study p 70 
                                   Teach Pages 363-364         Roosevelt's Foreign Policy

Wednesday   2-25-09   No Homework Assignment except for those who talk and 
                       misbehave for the sub: Complete all Questions p 365; p 371
                                   Pop quiz today over reading.
                                   Teach Pages 364-365         Panama Canal          
                                   Teach:   365-367  President Taft

                                      Watch Panama Canal Video use movie viewing sheet

Thursday                     Teach:    Progressives and President Wilson      

                                          Finish Panama Canal Video

Friday                        Give Quiz Chapter 17 Have students start HMWK

Week # 8 Objectives:
Students will Learn about the President Roosevelt and the Progressives

Week #9   Read the chapter before I teach the lessons, pop quiz on Wednesday over the reading.

Monday Wk            Quarter Exam Finals Week after quiz.
                                 Watch 9 min video on "The Dead" and Roman Catacombs

Tuesday                         Watch Ken Burns Baseball VHS video use movie sheet
                                                                               
Wednesday    3-04-09     Homework  Complete all questions p 375  or Watch Pancho Villa 3 min video
                                                                                                                   Watch Horsepower 14min video
                                      If ready to be corrected on Wednesday only do
                                                1-10 p 375  and Id's  Girls Even, Boys are odd
                                                            Pop quiz today over reading.
                                
Thursday                       Start watching WWI  video # 56   Use movie sheet
                                     Hand out Practice map of the States, then give Pop Qz over the states map  

Friday                           Review for 3 wk exam.

                                      Lesson Plans for 4th Quarter

Week # 9 Objectives:
Students will Learn about the Teddy Roosevelt and WWI

Week #10                     

Monday Wk                  3rd Qt  Ex   3rd  quarter exam will cover: 
                                            Chapters : 14-17 and Map of the U.S.   States  

Tuesday                       Start chapter 18  and cover pages 380-389 this week.  
                                   Watch 5 min video on the Assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand   
                                   Teach Pages 380-384      Steps toward war   

 Wednesday   3-11-09  No Homework Assignment 
                                  Teach pages 383-386      WWI American Expeditionary Force
                                  Watch World War I Transforming America 27 min video:     

Thursday                   Teach pages 386-390     WWI Ends  Treaty of Versailles
                                       Geo project  Central Am 73   74  Answers on Pg  32   33

Friday                      Teach pages 388-389 Communist Threat  
                             Watch Communist Mao 4 min and Joseph Stalin 12 min short videos.

The most destructive habit is worry

                                      Lesson Plans for 4th Quarter