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Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Quarter 1 Introduction to Eighth Grade August / September Social Science—American History—Part II Map Quiz 14-a Understand and explain American Journey, basic principles of the US Review Skill Handbook-- Reference Atlas, Government Interpreting Political Cartoons Geography Skills 14-D Understand the roles Analyzing News media Handbook and influences of individuals and interest groups in the Review and analyze the Maps political systems of Illinois, the US and other nations RH1. Geography of the United States: 1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis 17-A Locate, describe and of primary and secondary Review of US History to the Civil explain places, regions, and sources. Section Guided features on the Earth War Reading Activities RH4. 4. Determine the meaning 17-B2a Describe how of words and phrases Discuss the concepts of Sectionalism physical and human as they are used in a text, and Expansionism/Manifest Destiny processes shape special including vocabulary specific to domains related to patterns including history/social studies. …settlement TOWARD CIVIL WAR Chapter 15 Teacher created 17C 3a Explain how human materials activity is affected by Summarize the Missouri Vocabulary activities geographic factors Compromise, the Compromise of Quizzes 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act 17-D Understand the Chapter project historical significance of geography Explain how the concept of “popular Map Activities Sovereignty” led to violence in Kansas

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT 14-B Understand the Describe how the Republican Party structures and functions of WHST10. was formed from various anti-slavery the political systems of...USA 10. Write routinely over parties in 1854 extended time frames (time 14-E Understand US foreign for reflection and revision) and Read a Time Line of US policy shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a History to the Civil War Presentations 14-F Understand the range of discipline-specific Describe the significance of the Dred Discussions development of US political tasks, purposes, and Scott Case (informal); debate ideas and traditions audiences. 15-A Understand how different economic systems WHST1 Explain how states’ rights contribute Section Guided Map Activity, p 465 operate 1. Write arguments focused on to the secession and outbreak of the Reading ch 15-4 16 B 4 (U) Identify political discipline-specific Civil War. ideas that have dominated content.

US historical eras WHST2. 16 C 4b (US) Analyze the 2. Write informative/explanatory Test impact of westward texts, including the narration of historical expansion events, scientific Explain how the War starts with the Time Line to the Civil procedures/ experiments, or attack on Fort Sumter War Unit: Civil War and technical processes.

Reconstruction CIVIL WAR Chapter 16 September/October RH1. 1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis Identify and compare and contrast 16 C 4b (US) Analyze the of primary and secondary Vocabulary activities impact of westward sources. the aims and strategies of the North expansion and South Activity: Comparing RH4. 4. Determine the meaning the North and South of words and phrases 17 D Understand the Quizzes historical significance of as they are used in a text, including vocabulary Identify the strengths and geography specific to domains related to 17C3a Explain how human history/social studies. weaknesses of the North and South. activity is affected by Map Activity geographic factors Describe and analyze the major Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT 18 B 3a Analyze how battles in both the East and West in Online Web Quest Chapter project individuals and groups WHST.4 the early stages of the War interact with and within 4. Produce clear and coherent institutions writing in which Map Activities the development, organization, Evaluate the role of technology the and style are 16 B 3c Describe the way the appropriate to task, purpose, war—especially the use of railroads Guided Reading Constitution has changed and audience. and ironclad warships Teacher made quizzes over time as a result of amendments and Supreme

Court decisions Evaluate the significance of the American Journey, ch Quiz RH1. Emancipation Proclamation in setting 16, section 4 1. Cite specific textual evidence 14 C Understand the election to support analysis a moral compass for winning the war process and responsibilities of primary and secondary Map Activities: Battles sources. of citizens Describe the social, political, and in the West; Battles in Presentations the East 14-C 3 Compare historical RH4. 4. Determine the meaning economic changes that resulted from Discussions issues involving rights, roles of words and phrases the war PG version of Glory (informal); debate as they are used in a text, and status of individuals including vocabulary specific to domains related to Describe the new roles for women Guided Reading Report/Presentation history/social studies. 16 A Apply the skills of and brought about by the war Battles and historical analysis and Technology of the Civil interpretation Understand how the battles of War 16 A 3c Identify the Vicksburg and Gettysburg changed differences between facts the course of the war. Guided Reading and interpretation

Describe and evaluate the role played Map Activity

by African American in the Civil War

Describe the events that led to the Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT end of the war Graphic Organizer Graphic organizer:

battles of the War 15 E Understand the impact of government policies and decisions on production and Summarize the Causes and Effects of consumption in the economy the Civil War Civil War Map Project Chapter Assessment

17C3a Explain how human activity is affected by geographic factors Chapter 17: Reconstruction Test RH9. 9. Analyze the relationship between a primary and Contrast the different plans to unify Guided Reading 18 B 3a Analyze how secondary source on the same individuals and groups topic. the nation after the Civil War. interact with and within institutions Discuss the results of Radical

16 C H4 Describe the Reconstruction. economic causes of conflict Quiz in US History Speculate/hypothesize how Reconstruction might have been different if Lincoln had NOT been 17 A Locate, describe and assassinated explain places, regions, and th Describe the impact of the 14 and features on Earth 15th Amendments on African Research on the Americans internet and Describe how the government in the Class debate Southern states changed during 16 C 3c (W) Describe the Reconstruction. impact of technology (e.g. weaponry…)

Explain how the South changed politically, economically, and socially Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT during Reconstruction. 14-C 3 Compare historical Chapter 17 Test issues involving rights, roles and status of individuals Summarize the effects of the Compromise of 1877 Debate the dangers posed by the recent 15 C 4a Analyze the impact of Describe the setbacks to African Supreme Court political actions and natural Americans with the voting restriction decision regarding phenomena ( e.g. war, weakening the Voting legislation, natural disaster) and Jim Crow Laws on producers and production Rights Act decisions Unit 6: Reshaping the 16 A 3 B Make inferences about historical events and Nation--Reading Strategy- Map quiz era using historical maps and Comparing and Contrasting other historical sources

17 C 3a Explain how human Chapter 18: Opening the West Section 18-1Quiz activity is affected by geographic factors Summarize the development of the

West, including the mining booms 16 A Apply skills of historical and the role of railroads. Map Activity: Mining in analysis and interpretation Critical Thinking the West AJ p 554 Activity AJ p 565— 16 A 3c Identify the Explain the role of railroads in the Problem/Solution differences between facts settlement of the West Guided Reading and interpretation Diagram Activity 18-1

16-B 2d (US) Identify major Explain how cattle ranchers and political events and leaders farmers adapted to life in the West. within the United States historical eras including…the Civil War Summarize the significance of the Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT 16 A 3 B Make inferences Homestead Act of 1862 Guided Reading about historical events and Activity 18-2 era using historical maps and other historical sources Analyze the effects of westward Venn Diagram— expansion on Native Americans Reading Strategy: Comparing and 17 C 3a Explain how human Cause Web, Contrasting Nomadic activity is affected by Identify Sitting Bull and Geronimo. and Reservation Life, geographic factors Trace the westward AJ, 571 expansion 14 F 3a Analyze historical Explain the conflict that forced Native influences on the Americans onto reservations. development of political Internet research and ideas and practices Explain why economic reform reports

movements developed in the late Class discussion 16 B 3c Describe the way the Constitution has changed 1800’s over time as a result of Test amendments and Supreme Describe the impact of the election of

Court decisions 1896.

Chapter 19: The Industrial Age 16 A Apply the skills of historical analysis and Time Line Activity interpretation Evaluate how railroad expansion Create a map to

affected the U.S. economy. illustrate the growth of 14-C 3 Compare historical Map Activities Railroads issues involving rights, roles Analyze how the inventions of the and status of individuals Chart inventors and late 1800’s revolutionized society Section quiz their inventions. 18 C 3b Explain how diverse groups have contributed to Describe how Americans built Chapter 19 Test US social systems over time fortunes in the oil and steel

industries.

Identify the reasons for new Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT 16 B 3c Describe the way the legislation. Guided Reading Class discussion on Constitution has changed Activity social issues of late over time as a result of th th amendments and Supreme Chapter 20—An Urban Society 19 and early 20 Court decisions Describe how cities changed during century current to U.S. the late 1800s. policy 17 C 3c Analyze how human processes influence Explain the effects of the new forms of settlement patterns including urban transportation. migration and population growth Compare and Contrast city problems and Guided Reading Discussions in class solutions from the late 1800’s to those of 18 B 3a Analyze how Activity individuals and groups today interact with and within Quiz Interpreting a political institutions Chart the growth of the American education system. cartoon Identify prominent 18B 3b Explain how social personalities institutions contribute to the Describe the importance of the Tuskegee development and Graphic organizer transmission of culture Institute Section quiz

15 E 3b Explain how laws and Discuss ways American culture changed Chapter 20 Test government policies in the late 1800s. establish rules that help a Primary Source Activity market economy function

Unit 7—Reform and 14 C 3 Compare historical Empire—Reading Skill: issues involving rights , rules Paraphrasing and status of individuals in Chapter 21—The Progressive relation to municipalities, states and the nation Era

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Explain how the progressives fought Interpreting Primary Unit 6: Reshaping corruption in business and government. Sources Sequence congressional legislation from the Nation 1858- th Quiz 1914 the Pendleton Act to the 17 Grade level Team writing amendment. Opening the West Guided Reading Content Test 1858-1896 Summarize how progressive reformers Activity October/November reinforce democratic ideas. Chapter Test 15 B 3a Describe the “market Identify the characteristics of the "new clearing price” of a good or woman" of the late 1800's. DBQ / Essential service Questions Classroom discussions Illustrate ways in which reforms affected 16D 3a (US) Describe the lives of women and other groups in characteristics of different the late 1800s. Chapter outline kinds of communities in various sections of America Paraphrase the goal of the temperance

17C 3a Explain how human movement. activity is affected by geographic factors Guided Reading Discuss why Theodore Roosevelt and Activity 16 D 3b (US) Describe William Howard Taft were known as Section quiz characteristics of different progressive presidents. kinds of families in America… Create a brochure or

Identify ethnic groups and religious flyer for ‘Reform 16E 3b (US) Describe how the Chapter test minority groups faced with discrimination Group’s’ stand and largely rural population of in the United States during the late their reform ideas. the US adapted, used and changed the environment 1800's.

17D 3a Explain how and why spatial patterns of settlement Chapter 22: Rise to World Power change over time Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT 16 D 3a; 17 C 3c Analyze how human processes influence Discuss why the United States extended Online Web Quest settlement patterns its influence to other regions in the late

1800s. Graphic organizer 18 B 3a Analyze how individuals and groups Explain the factors that led to Compare and evaluate interact with and within imperialism. the achievements of institutions Explain why the United States Booker T. Washington, expanded its role in the Pacific. W.E.B. Du Bois

Summarize the Open Door policy.

Classroom

discussions

Analyze how the Spanish-American War 15- A Understand how helped the United States become a world different economic systems power operate in the exchange, production , distribution and List the events in Cuba that led to war consumption of goods and between United states and Spain. Map Activity services

Identify role played by the Rough Riders (1st Volunteer Cavalry) and the 9th and DBQ / Essential 10th Cavalry ( Buffalo Soldiers) in the Questions Battle of San Juan Hill. Explain what happened to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Create a political or Explain the problems with the Panama propaganda-based Canal and how they were resolved. cartoon or drawing that depicts an Contrast Taft's views about power with those of Roosevelt. understanding of the

time period Relate how the beliefs of the U.S. presidents shaped Latin American foreign American Journey, ch policies. 22—section 4

Describe the relations with Mexico in the Guided Reading Activity Presentations

early 1900’s Oral & Video

Define and understand Wilson’s policy of Chapter Test—Ch 22 "moral diplomacy". The Industrial Age

1865-1914 Chapter 23—World War I

November/December Analyze factors that led to the outbreak

of World War I, includes nationalism and

15 B 3b Explain the effects of militarism. choice and competition on individuals and the economy Identify the assassination of Franz as a whole Ferdinand as the spark that set off the Graphic Organizer— war 15C 3 Identify and explain Causes of World War I the effects of various Evaluate how new weapons technology— incentives to produce a good Map: World War I led to trench warfare in World War I or service DBQ / Essential

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT 17C 3a Explain how human Questions activity is affected by Examine how propaganda influenced war geographic factors efforts. Handout and Worksheet: World War I 17 C 3c Analyze how human Describe the reasons why the United processes influence States entered World War I. Game: Diplomacy settlement patterns including migration and population (modified for class growth room use) Section Quiz: Section 1 Determine why Russia withdrew from

the war in 1918. Create a webquest

Describe how the United States Handout: New helped the Allies win World War I. Weapons of War

Interpret a map concerning American American Journey, ch battles in World War I 23, section 2

Describe the end of the war

Guided Reading

Activity Sections 2

Summarize how the United States mobilized its resources to fight the Class discussion and war. debate

Decide why some African American soldiers wanted to remain in Europe. AJ p 716—Chance and

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Describe efforts by the government Error in History Activity to control public opinion during the Section Quiz: Section 2 war

Compare and contrast the Sabotage American Journey, ch 22—section 3 Act and the Sedition Act of 1918 with

both the Alien and Sedition Acts of Guided Reading Activity 1798 and the Patriot Act of 2001

Handout and Worksheet: Explain the Great Migration and its World War I—Part II impact. AJ, map p 720 Map Quiz An Urban Society 1865-1914 Identify Wilson’s Fourteen Points for Quiz: Sections 3 December Peace

Locate the new nations created in American Journey, ch eastern Europe after the war 23, section 4

Identify the League of Nations Guided Reading

Activity Describe the terms of the Treaty of

Versailles

Discuss why Wilson’s peace plan failed.

Identify challenges faced by the US

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT and Europe after the war Graphic Organizer— See also American Chart Comparing The Unit 8: Change and Conflict Journey, p 270 and 992 Alien and Sedition Acts –Reading Skill: Questioning of 1798, 1918, and the Patriot Act

Chapter 24—The Jazz Age Section 4 Quiz

Understand how prejudice and labor

strife affected the nation after World

War I.

Ch 23, section 5 Discuss the causes and effects of the Test: World War I Great Migration

Map, AJ p 730 Discuss how the election of Harding

and Coolidge reflected America’s Student created map changing mood.

Explain how new technology and Guided Reading forms of transportation changed Activity section 5 American life. Section 5 Quiz

Unit 7--Reform and Analyze reasons for economic growth Empire 1865-1920 in the 1920’s Test: Chapter 23— Graphic Organizer, AJ p Word War I January 732 Describe how a drop in agricultural The Progressive Era 1877-1920 products laid the seed for the Great Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Depression

Analyze how social change affected the arts, the role of women, and minorities. American Journey, ch 24—Section 1

Describe and analyze the Section Guided achievements of the Harlem Reading Renaissance Map Activity to show Section 1 Quiz the Great Migration

American Journey, ch 24, Section 2 Section 2 Quiz Guided Reading Activity

American Journey, ch

24, Section 3

Guided Reading Activity

American Journey, ch

24, section 4 Section 3 Quiz Unit 7--Reform and Empire 1865-1920 Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Guided Reading January Activity The Progressive Era 1877-1920 Section 4 Quiz Research Harlem Chapter 25—The Depression Renaissance and the New Deal Topics Covered include: Identify and analyze the factors that a) Literature brought about the Great Depression. b) Art C) Music Student projects and Describe the hardships people faced d) Urban Development presentations during the Depression e) Material Culture including art work, oral including: presentations, Describe how President Hoover - Unique Clothing technology attempted to deal with the crisis Styles presentations, musical -Food & presentations restaurants Describe how Franklin Roosevelt’s -Night time and leadership brought about a change in the U.S. economy. Entertainment

-Performers

Describe the major components of f) Economic effects on

the New Deal Programs African-Americans

living in the Compare FDR’s efforts to deal with Northeast. Chapter 24 Test the Great Depression with those of President Obama to deal with the

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT “Great Recession”

Explain how the Great Depression affected the economic and social American Journey conditions of Americans, especially Chapter 25, section 1 minorities. Guided Reading Describe the causes and effects of the Activity Dust Bowl Section 1 Quiz

Discuss why some people supported Roosevelt’s New Deal and why others American Journey opposed it. Chapter 25, section 2

Describe and evaluate the Guided Reading

achievements of the “Second New Activity

Deal” including the Social Security

program Section 2 Quiz

Internet activity, AJ p Chapter 26: World War II 1001-1002

Describe how dictators acquired and expanded power in Europe in the

1930s.

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT

World Power 1865-1917 American Journey January Describe how bitterness over the Chapter 25, section 3 outcome of World War I and serious Essay on the Dust Bowl economic problems led to the rise of Guided Reading dictators in Germany, Italy, Japan, Activity and the Soviet Union Section 3 Quiz Dust Bowl video from Define fascism and explain how PBIS American Mussolini came to power in Italy in Experience –(Ken 1922 Burns’s film)

Define Nazism and explain how Hitler American Journey came to power in Germany in 1933 Chapter 25, section 4 Section 4 Quiz

Describe Hitler’s attacks on the Jews Guided Reading Chapter 25 Test

Activity Explain why European nations World War I refused to oppose Hitler’s military

buildup and territorial ambitions in

Europe

Analyze how the military came to

power in Japan

American Journey Chapter 26, section 1

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Analyze why America remained neutral in the late 1930’s

Discuss how peaceful nations confronted foreign aggressors in Guided Reading World War II. Activity

Describe Germany’s aggression prior to World War II

Explain why the policy of appeasement failed

Handout: Rise of Dictators

Describe how World War II began Study Guide: Rise of Dictators

Describe the blitzkrieg and explain

how this new way of waging war was Internet resources

different from the trench warfare of

World War I

Analyze reasons for the fall of France Debate—If Britain, Section 1 quiz France, and the USA Describe the Battle of Britain had opposed Hitler, World War II would

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Describe FDR’s policy of helping the have been avoided allies

Explain how the US opposed Japanese aggression in the Pacific Map Quiz

Explain how the United States American Journey entered the war with the attack on Chapter 26, section 2 Pearl Harbor Guided Reading Activity

Map Activity: Explain how the US had to refocus its Aggression in Europe economy to provide supplies for the war Discussion comparing Russia’s invasion of List ways that American men, Crimea in 2014 to

women, and minorities supported the Hitler’s aggression

war effort at home. Evaluation of map

American Journey activities

Judge the placement of Japanese- Chapter 26, section 2 American in internment camps during the war Guided Reading Activity

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Describe the strategies the Allies pursued in Europe and Africa to Map Activities— defeat the Axis Powers in World War Germany Invades II. France, The Battle of Britain, and the Axis Describe and explain how the Allies Conquest of Europe fought a successful campaign in North Handout: The War Africa Begins Section 2 quiz

Describe the invasion of Italy Internet resources-- Describe the importance of the Normandy Invasion Handout: The United States Enters the War Describe the Holocaust and explain how the Nazis increased their Internet Recording persecution of the Jews and set up FDR’s “Day of Infamy“ death camps in an effort to kill all of speech

Europe’s Jewish population Participation in debate

American Journey

Describe the war in the Pacific and Chapter 26, section 3 Explain the strategy of island hopping Section 3 Quiz

Discuss the importance of the Battle Section Reading Guide of Midway Discuss the events that led up to the

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT turning point in the war in the Pacific. Change and Conflict Debate: How was the 1920-1945 Describe the goal of the Manhattan US’s treatment of Project and explain how the use of Japanese Americans the atomic bomb brought about similar to and different The Jazz Age Japan’s surrender in the Pacific from the Nazi conflict treatment of the Jews American Journey Explain the surrender of Japan. Chapter 26, section 4

Unit 9- Challenges at Home and Abroad—Reading Skill: Guided Reading Holocaust Project Identifying Problems and Activity Solutions

Chapter 27: The Cold War Era Quiz: Section 4

Explain how and why America aided European nations after World War II. Map Activity D-Day, AJ

p 824

Describe the importance of the

Marshall Plan and the Truman Handout: The

Doctrine Holocaust Map quiz: Pacific War Describe the beginnings of the Cold War and the formation of NATO Internet resources including videos,

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Describe Soviet expansion in Eastern information from the Europe Holocaust Museum

Describe the growth of communism American Journey in China and Asia Chapter 26, section 5 Section 5 Quiz Describe the Berlin Crisis and how the Western Allies successfully Handout: The War in Chapter 26 Test— responded to it the Pacific World War II

Describe Cold War fears at home and McCarthism Guided Reading Activity—Section 5 Understand the economic, social and political challenges that Americans faced after World War II.

Describe Truman’s efforts to end

discrimination

Explain how and why America

involved itself in the Korean conflict of the 1950s.

Explain the Constitutional importance of Truman’s firing of General McArthur

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT

The Depression and Describe Eisenhower’s foreign policy the New Deal Identify how America’s prosperity in American Journey the 1950s affected the country’s Chapter 27, section 1 economy and culture.

Chapter 28—The Civil Rights Era Guided Reading Describe the legal and social Activity Section 1 Quiz challenges to racial segregation in the 1940s and 1950s. Map: Soviet Expansion Map: NATO Identify major civil rights groups: NAACP, CORE, SCLC, SNCC Section 2 Quiz

Describe the importance of the Brown decision

Analyze the role of the Federal

Government in the confrontation in

Little Rock Analyze the importance of the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott American Journey

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Evaluate the role of Dr. Martin Chapter 27, section 2 Luther King, Jr. on the growth of the Section 3 Quiz Civil Rights Movement Guided Reading Activity

Explain why John F. Kennedy’s Section 4 Quiz presidency appealed to many Americans who wanted positive American Journey Chapter 27 Test change Chapter 27, section 3 Identify the major programs of the New Frontier Map: Korean War Guided Reading Discuss the Assassination of JFK Activity

Describe President Johnson’s Great Society: War on Poverty, Medicare and Medicaid, and the Civil Rights Act American Journey of 1964 Chapter 27, section 4

World War II Compare and contrast the Guided Reading

presidencies of Kennedy and Activity

Johnson.

Discuss the areas of civil rights that groups tried to improve in the 1960s and the methods those groups used.

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT American Journey Describe the importance of the Chapter 28, section 1 Freedom Rides Section 1 Quiz Guided Reading Describe what the march on Activity Washington in 1963 accomplished

Explain the importance of the Voting th Rights Act of 1965 and the 24 Amendment Handout: Civil Rights Movement Identify Malcolm X and explain his philosophy

Explain the significance of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Bobby Kennedy

Trace the effects of the civil rights Internet resources

movement on minorities other than

African Americans. Video: Citizen King

Explain how the Civil Rights Section 2 Quiz Movement led many American American Journey women to organize and push for Chapter 28, section 2 greater rights and opportunities

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Explain how during the 1960’s and 1970’s and 1980’s Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and disabled Americans entered the struggle for greater rights Guided Reading Chapter 29: The Vietnam Era Activity

Describe the key foreign policy challenges during the Kennedy administration. Graphic Organizer Describe the Cuban Missile Crisis

Explain how and why America got involved in the war in Vietnam. American Journey Chapter 28, section 3

Describe how the American troops had to fight a jungle war using search- Guided Reading Section 3 Quiz

and-destroy missions Activity

Discuss the effects of the Vietnam War on the political and social climate of the United States.

Analyze the importance of the youth

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT anti-war protest movement Video: Many Rivers to Explain why the year 1968 was a Cross turning point in the war that greatly affected the nation’s political life Section 4 Quiz Explain how anti-war protests Chapter 28 Test intensified in the early 1970’s and describe what happened at Kent State and Jackson State Universities

Evaluate the significance of the release of the Pentagon Papers American Journey Chapter 28, section 4 Explain how President Nixon removed the United States from the Vietnam Section 1 Quiz War. Guided Reading Activity

Describe the Human toll and social

political, and economic impacts of

the war

Unit 10—America in a Modern Era-- Reading Skill: Section 2 Quiz

Monitoring and Clarifying

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Chapter 30--America in the 1970’s

Explain how Nixon worked to achieve American Journey foreign policy goals. Chapter 29, section 1 Guided Reading Analyze the effectiveness of Détente and Nixon’s China policy Activity Section 3 Quiz

List Nixon’s major domestic challenges in the 1970s. American Journey Chapter 29, section 2 Describe the Constitutional crisis

caused by the Watergate Scandal Guided Reading

Activity Explain how Carter dealt with foreign affairs issues Map: Vietnam War

Describe the environmental and

Energy crisis issues Carter faced American Journey

Chapter 29, section 3 Describe the Iran Hostage crisis Chapter 31—New Challenges Section 4 Quiz

Explain how President Reagan’s Chapter 29 Test Guided Reading actions and policies reflected his attitude about communism. Activity

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Describe how Regan brought a conservative approach to government

Describe the Iran-Contra Scandal American Journey Chapter 29, section 4 Describe the breakup of the Soviet Challenges at Home Union and the end to the Cold War and Abroad 1945- 1975 Describe the Persian Gulf War Section 1 Quiz Discuss how President Bush dealt Guided Reading with the domestic challenges facing Activity The Cold War Era his presidency. 1945-1960 Evaluate the economic and social reforms of the Clinton Presidency Section 2 Quiz

Understand how the Clinton

presidency altered the U.S. domestic

scene in the 1990s.

Describe the role the conservative Supreme Court played in the Section 4 Quiz contested 2000 election Chapter 30 Test Describe the events of 9/11

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Explain how the war on terror changed the way Americans lived. American Journey Describe the provisions of the Patriot Chapter 30, section 1 Act and compare them to the provisions of the Alien and Sedition Acts of both 1918 and 1798 Guided Reading Activity Section 1 Quiz Explain why the United States went to war in Iraq in 2003 American Journey Describe the election of Barack Chapter 30, section 2 Obama in 2004 as the first African American President Guided Reading Activity Explain how President Obama got started as a community organizer in Chicago’s South Side American Journey Section 2 Quiz

Chapter 30, section 3

Describe the domestic and foreign

policy issues faced by the Obama

administration

Describe the steps taken by the new administration to revive the economy American Journey Trance the push for health back to Chapter 31, section 1 Section 3 Quiz

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT the New Deal, through the Johnson and Clinton administrations to the The Civil Rights Era Affordable Health Care Act 1954-1974 Guided Reading Identify ways in which economic and Activity environmental developments led to interdependence among the world’s nations.

Describe how the global economy American Journey benefited from new technology but Chapter 31, section 2 also suffered from a major financial Map Activity: Breakup st crisis at the beginning of the 21 of the Soviet Union century Map Activity: Persian Gulf War Quiz: Elections of 2008 Guided Reading and 2012 Activity

American Journey Illinois Constitution Unit Chapter 31, section 3

Describe The geography of Illinois

Locate the major regions of Illinois Guided Reading Activity

Explain the importance of rivers and

Lake Michigan to Illinois Settlement Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT pattern

Identify and describe the major Native American groups which lived American Journey in Illinois Chapter 31, section 4

Explain how the French settled the Video: 9/11 area near Kaskaskia Guided Reading Explain how Illinois became British Activity Section 4 Quiz territory as a result of the French and Indian War

Explain how George Rogers Clark’s campaign gave the Americans claim to the Northwest Territory

Handout: The Elections Section 5 Quiz

Explain how Illinois became the 21st of 2008 and 2012

state Chapter 31 Test

Describe the role of Illinois in the Civil War

Describe how Chicago became a major railroad hub and industrial

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT center

Identify Illinois’s four constitutions Illinois Geography Quiz

Describe the major provisions of the Constitution of 1970  Provisions in the Preamble  Bill of Rights  Suffrage Internet research  Requirement for office holding Describe the structure and organization and powers of the General Assembly American Journey Chapter 31, section 5 Explain why there are 59 State Senators and 118 members of the

House of Representatives Guided Reading

Activity Describe how a bill can become a law

Describe the organization, structure,

and powers of the Elected Officers of the Executive Branch:

 History of Illinois Quiz Governor  Lieutenant Governor

 Attorney General Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT  Secretary of State Handout: Geography  Comptroller of Illinois The Vietnam Era  Treasurer 1960-1975 Study Guide: Describe the structure, organization Geography of Illinois and powers of the Judicial Branch:  Supreme Court Maps: Illinois—  Appellate Courts Geographic Regions  District (Circuit ) Courts Map: Illinois Indian Describe the structure, organization Tribes and function of local governments:  County Map: Illinois in the  Township French and Indian War  City/Village Study Guide: History of Illinois-I  Special Districts

Explain how the Illinois Constitution Internet: Pictures of can be amended Kaskaskia and Fort

Chartres Constitution Quiz 1

Map: Revolutionary

War in the West

American Journey, p Constitution Quiz 2

168-171

Maps: Northwest

Territory, Indiana

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Territory, Illinois Territory Constitution Quiz 3 Study Guide: History of Illinois – II Handout: Illinois Government Power Point Constitution Quiz 4 Presentation Students make flash cards

Handout: Illinois Constitution Study Guide: Illinois Constitution-I

Study Guide: Illinois Constitution- II

Graphic

Organizer/Chart: America in a Executive Branch

Modern Era

Graphic

America in the 1970's Organizer/Chart: Judicial Branch

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT

New Challenges Illinois Constitution

Test APPENDIX (Oz= Washington DC; Wizard= President; Lion= William Jennings Bryan; Wicked Witch of the West=weather of the west; Good Witch of the North= North during the Civil War; Scarecrow= American Farmer; Tin man= Industrial worker; Munchkins=immigrants Yellow Brick Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT Road = Gold standard; House falling on Wicked Witch of the East ( evil Industrialist) = homeownership

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT

Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT

ILLINOIS CONSTITUTION

17A-Locate, describe and explain places, regions and features on the Earth 17C 2b Describe the relationships among location of resources, population distribution and economic activities 17C 3a Explain how Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT human activity is affected by geographic features 18A Compare cultural characteristics

16B 3b (US) Explain how and why the colonists fought for independence

14A 4 Analyze how local, state, and national; governments sere the purposes for which they were created

17C 3c Analyze how human processes influence settlement patterns

14 B Understand the Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 Revised 2014 Curriculum Map Grade 8th Social Studies Essential Questions (attached)

Illinois Learning COMMON CORE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS Standards and Time MAJOR ACTIVITIES Intervals CONTENT structures and functions of the political systems of Illinois, the United States, and other nations

14B 3