BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT IS SEP. 10! Log in information for the 8th grade Social Studies meet will be sent to parents. My presentation can be accessed at: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14C600t5epOEanzNNU5Lq6WhkTKJZrwweRMv8zkFJD6g/edit#slide=id.g35f391192_057
Curriculum: Chronologically, 8th grade Social Studies begins in the antebellum era, and ends in the mid twentieth century. Students will be taught to:
Once again we will be using Discovery Education this year which will serve as our textbook and a general resource.
Grading: Students' grades will consist of four components: classwork (30%), quizzes (20%), tests (30%) and project (one per quarter, 20%).
Google Classroom: Please look for assignments on both Powerschool and Google Classroom. I post my assignments in advance of due dates, so please check regularly. All student work will be submitted via Google Classroom, unless otherwise noted. Please note that I put the chapter notes on Google Classroom, although students are expected to take notes in class.
8th Grade Monthly Breakfast: This is an 8th grade privilege and tradition. 8th graders are welcome to come to Room 217 beginning at 7:30 for breakfast and fun on the last Friday of each month. I will provide the first breakfast, which will be held on Sep. 25. I will be sending out information to families so parents can sign up to provide a breakfasts in the future.
Curriculum: Chronologically, 8th grade Social Studies begins in the antebellum era, and ends in the mid twentieth century. Students will be taught to:
- Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
- Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
- Identify key steps in a text's description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
- Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).
- Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author's point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).
- Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
- Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
- Analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic.
- IN OTHER WORDS, 8th graders this year will be learning how to think and write like historians, with a big emphasis on analyzing and interpresting primary sources!!
Once again we will be using Discovery Education this year which will serve as our textbook and a general resource.
Grading: Students' grades will consist of four components: classwork (30%), quizzes (20%), tests (30%) and project (one per quarter, 20%).
Google Classroom: Please look for assignments on both Powerschool and Google Classroom. I post my assignments in advance of due dates, so please check regularly. All student work will be submitted via Google Classroom, unless otherwise noted. Please note that I put the chapter notes on Google Classroom, although students are expected to take notes in class.
8th Grade Monthly Breakfast: This is an 8th grade privilege and tradition. 8th graders are welcome to come to Room 217 beginning at 7:30 for breakfast and fun on the last Friday of each month. I will provide the first breakfast, which will be held on Sep. 25. I will be sending out information to families so parents can sign up to provide a breakfasts in the future.