AMERICAN HISTORY 8
Departmental Weekly Lesson Plans
Week of: December 15-19, 2014
DATE: / Essential Question: / Daily Agenda:Monday / This entire week is devoted to the End of Quarter Exam.
Students will demonstrate their learning of the “Creating a Nation” Unit. / Students will receive a 4 page review for the upcoming End of Quarter Exam. Students will take this exam whenever their class has their Block Day. (Wed or Thurs.)
Tuesday / A copy of the Review Sheet can be found on the teachers’ websites. / REVIEW-REVIEW-REVIEW
for the E.O.Q.
Wed/Thurs / ●UNIT 2 E.O.Q.
This END-OF-QUARTER EXAMS covers the French and Indian War, The Acts leading up to the American Revolution, The American Revoltution, and Articles of Confederation & Constitutional Convention
Friday / ●Finish watching the edited version of The Patriot.
AMERICAN HISTORY 8
Departmental Weekly Lesson Plans
Week of: December 8-12, 2014
DATE: / Essential Question: / Daily Agenda:Monday / Can students analyze the successes and failures of the articles of confederation and how it led to the formation of the Constitution? / Finalize Bracket & determine champion through debates (strength or weakness as the determining factor in strength or weakness).
Tuesday / 1. Students will be able to explain some of the issues faced by delegates at the Constitutional
Convention.
2. Students will be able to describe how different states addressed these issues.
3. Students will be able to describe how the outcomes of the simulated Constitutional Convention
compares to the outcomes of the actual event.
4. Students will analyze United States Census data from which to gain information. / ●Shay’s rebellion Video Hook
●Students are assigned “states” to represent at the Constitutional Convention.
○foundation building
Wed/Thurs / Tuesday continued. / ●Constitutional Convention Debate Activty.
Friday / Chapter 7 Assessment / ●Assessment covers Articles of Confederation & Constitutional Convention
Week of: December 1-5, 2014
DATE: / Essential Question: / Daily Agenda:Monday / Can students analyze the successes and failures of the articles of confederation and how it led to the formation of the Constitution? / Evaluate Strengths & Weaknesses (what determines a strength and weakness)
Tuesday / Cont… / Seed Brackets
-students will be able to justify seedings with 1 or two sentences
Wed/Thurs / Bracketology
Friday / -Evaluate the effectiveness of the Articles of Confederation.
Week of: November 24-28, 2014
DATE: / Essential Question: / Daily Agenda:Monday / Can students’ work as a “Truth Detective” to pick up what Hollywood portrays as factual in multimedia. / EDITED for Classroom Version of “The Patriot.”
Tuesday / Cont… / Continue “The Patriot”
Wed/Thurs / THANKSGIVING BREAK
Friday / THANKSGIVING BREAK
AMERICAN HISTORY 8
Departmental Weekly Lesson Plans
Week of: November 24-28, 2014
DATE: / Essential Question: / Daily Agenda:Monday / Overcoming challenges:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of both the British and Colonists leading to the American Revolutionary War? / ●Formative assessment: Socrative 6.1
●Continental army gets support G/O
●Advantages and disadvantages G/O
●Photograph analysis/inferencing
Tuesday / To what degree was America’s fight for independence inevitable?
What was the significance of the winter of suffering at Valley Forge? / ●Primary Source Analysis:
○What is the process of analyzing writings.
Wed/Thurs / How did the battles through the Revolutionary War lead to the victory at Yorktown? / ●Battles of the Revolution Independent research project
●Results of Yorktown & Treaty of Paris
Friday / Can I evaluate a primary source document / ●Chapter 6 Primary Source Assessment
AMERICAN HISTORY 8
Departmental Weekly Lesson Plans
Week of: November 17-21, 2014
DATE: / Essential Question: / Daily Agenda:Monday / Overcoming challenges:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of both the British and Colonists leading to the American Revolutionary War? / ●Formative assessment: Socrative 6.1
●Continental army gets support G/O
●Advantages and disadvantages G/O
●Photograph analysis/inferencing
Tuesday / To what degree was America’s fight for independence inevitable?
What was the significance of the winter of suffering at Valley Forge? / ●Primary Source Analysis:
○What is the process of analyzing writings.
Wed/Thurs / How did the battles through the Revolutionary War lead to the victory at Yorktown? / ●Battles of the Revolution Independent research project
●Results of Yorktown & Treaty of Paris
Friday / Can I evaluate a primary source document / ●Chapter 6 Primary Source Assessment
AMERICAN HISTORY 8
Departmental Weekly Lesson Plans
Week of: November 10-14, 2014
DATE: / Essential Question: / Daily Agenda:Monday / Can students identify Acts and events leading to the American Revolution? / ●completion of chapter 5, sections 3 & 4
●review using Kahoot.it activity
Tuesday / Assessment / ●students will compete formative assessment Chapter 5 - The Spirit of Independence
Wed/Thurs / What does it mean to remain loyal to a cause?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of both the British and Colonists leading to the American Revolutionary War? / ●teaching primary source analysis.
○Museum crawl
○primary source analysis
●advantage/disadvantage chart
●major early battles breakout session
Friday / How did the United States gain allies and aid during the Revolutionary War? / ●Continental Army Gets support Graphic Organizer