Dec 5-16 Grade 8 Weekly

Assignments for Nov 28 - Dec 2, 2011

Nov 7-10, 2011 US History 8

October 31-Nov 4th

October 24-28

Happy Halloween featuring period 3 ghouls

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

Primary Sources: African American Wome Writers of the 19th Century

http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

http://www.dejaelaine.com/johnson.php

US President Resources

http://millercenter.org/president

misterteacher.com - Slavery in America

misterteacher.com - Slavery in America

October 17-21, 2011 Grade 8 US History

Oct 3-7 in US History 8

The Boston Massacre--The History of US

Sept 26-30 Grade 8

Sept 19-23, 2011 8th Grade US History

Sept 12-16 Grade 8

September 6-9, 2011 in Grade 8

week #2 Aug 29-Sept 2

week 1

Week #1

Introduction to the Class



The topics and assignments for this week can be viewed in the presentation below:

Google Sites Class Page

https://sites.google.com/site/piedmontlancers/

Chapter 1 Section 1 - Age of Exploration

Bill of Rights

Preamble to the Constitution

Video Self-Portrait: Why My Family Came to America

Students will create a short 3-4 minute video to answer the question, "What led to their family/ancestors to come to America.

Sample of a self-portrait video is





Another is at : http://kqed02.streamguys.us/anon.kqed/spark/sanjaypate.m4v

8th Grade Social Studies Plans

For Exploration and Colonial Period

Students will draw a paper on which a random personnages description is listed...

Such as Englishman age 25 seeking riches, native Powhattan woman age 10, enslaved African age 15, etc.

They read about the change and conflict amongst the groups and write a fictional "first person" account of their experiences.

Use ideas of TCI binders for each unit. See if slide images are available on the new TCI kit which was purchased at the last adoption as a supplemental resource. If not, find matching or similar images from web to create a DVD or put as power point or to Google Docs.

Why did explorers come to the new world? Why did student families come to America?

Conduct Family interviews and research--Family Tree can be side project.