Indianapolis Public Schools – Standards-Based Pacing
Grade 8 – Social Studies
2008 – 2009
Notes: All chapter references in the “Notes” section are from The American Republic textbook. All indicators listed are Core indicators.Note: Assets designated as GL or ABGL signify grade level or above grade level.
QUARTER 1
Theme: American Building Blocks/Government / Revolution/Slave Trade
Indicator / Standard / Notes
8.1.4 / Identify fundamental ideas in the Declaration of Independence (1776) and analyze the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783), including enactment of the Articles of Confederation and the Treaty of Paris.
Video:
The Revolutionary War: Indian Lands
The Proclamation of 1763
The Boston Massacre: What We Know about This Revolutionary Flashpoint
The Revolutionary War Begins
Revolutionary War: The Declaration of Independence
The Role of African-Americans in the American Revolution
Slaves and the War
The Question of Slavery
The American Revolution
The Quartering Act and the Stamp Act
Segment One: Declaration of Independence
The Principles of the Declaration of Independence
Applying the Ideas of "The Republic" to the American Republic
The Articles of Confederation
Taking Issue with the Articles of Confederation
Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
The End of War: Treaty of Paris, Loyalist Exiles, and Tearful Farewells
Images:
"The Boston Tea Party," December 16, 1773.
Colonel Washington on mission to Ohio, May 1754.
Robert Dinwiddie, Lt. governor, Virginia 1751-58.
The Proclamation Line of 1763.
Patrick Henry addressing VA House of Burgess.
Washington's HQ at Valley Forge.
A 1730 map of the Presidio de San Antonio.
Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776.
Audio:
The History of American Literature: Declaring Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence
Writing Prompts:
Freedom and Sacrifice (Nathan Hale)
Being Invisible
Defending A Belief
Articles:
Ohio Company
Wheatley, Phillis
Boston Tea Party
Attucks, Crispus
Boston Massacre
Discovery Education Resources: 2011
Videos:
Writing the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson Writes the Declaration of Independence
Congress Passes the Declaration of Independence and the United States of America Is Born
The Secret of American Success
Review: Causes of the American Revolution
Taxation Without Representation (Revised)
The Great Compromise
Instructional Images:
Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York.
Jefferson's Draft of the Declaration of Independence
Audio:
The United States Declaration of Independence
U.S. Government: The First 200 Years: Government Structure Is Proposed
Articles:
United States of America: History--The Growth of the Nation / Chapter 4 & 5
8.1.5 / Identify and explain key events leading to the creation of a strong union among the 13 original states and in the establishment of the United States as a federal republic
Example: The enactment of state constitutions, the Constitutional Conventions, ratifying conventions of the American states, and debate by Federalists versus Anti-Federalists regarding approval or disapproval of the 1787 Constitution (1787 – 1788).
Video:
The Great Compromise: The Two Houses of Congress (Senate and House of Representatives)
Footage and Commentary: The Great Compromise and Delegates Sign the Constitution on September 17, 1787
The House of Burgesses and Issues of Slavery
The Presidential Cabinet: The Departments of the Executive Branch
The History of the Legislative Branch
Constructing State Constitutions
"The Constitution State"
The State Constitutions
Drafting the First State Constitution
Federalists and Anti-federalists
Images:
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804).
Conflict in Congress, February 15, 1798.
Audio:
U.S. Government: The First 200 Years: Asserting Authority & the Emergence of Political Parties
Writing Prompts:
Being a Great Leader
Decision Makers
Articles:
Franklin, Benjamin
Federalist, The
Wythe, George
Constitution of the United States (Events Leading to the Drafting)
Free-Soil Party
Gerry, Elbridge
Constitution of the United States (Signers of the Constitution))
Whipple, William
Discovery Education Resources: 2011
Videos:
Checks and Balances
Debates in the Constitutional Convention / Chapter 5
8.1.9 / Describe the influence of important individuals on social and political developments of the time such as the Independence movement and the framing of the Constitution.
Example: James Otis, Mercy Otis Warren, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, George Washington, John Adams, Abigail Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Banneker.
Video:
Thomas Paine Writes What Many Colonists Are Thinking in
The Enlightenment in France: The Rise of Democratic Ideals
Benjamin Banneker
John Adams
Marbury v. Madison
General Washington
Abigail Smith
Individualism Leads to Independence
Congress Debates
Jefferson and Adams
A New Government
The National Bank and Hamilton's Competing Vision
1791: Conflicting Views on the Role of the Federal Government
Images:
Title Page To Benjamin Banneker's Almanac
Portrait of Abigail Adams after a painting by Benjamin Blythe
Franklin, Adams, Rutledge meet with Admiral Howe.
James Otis (1725-1783).
"Join or Die," The Constitutional Courant.
Patrick Henry addressing VA House of Burgess.
Audio:
U.S. Government: The First 200 Years: Conflicts of Political Interest (02:27)
U.S. Government: The First 200 Years: Government Structure Is Proposed
Writing Prompts:
An African-American Poet (Phillis Wheatley)
Famous Quotes (Benjamin Banneker)
Being a Free Citizen
Articles:
Adams, Abigail Smith
Otis, James
Discovery Education Resources: 2011
Videos:
James Madison and Other Delegates
Federalists and Anti-federalists
Background Information About the Opposition to the Ratification of the Constitution, The Federalist Papers
Instructional Images:
John Jay (1745-1829).
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804). / Chapter 5 & 6
8.1.30 / Formulate historical questions by analyzing primary sources* and secondary sources* about an issue confronting the United States during the period from 1754 – 1877.
Example: Analyze and interpret the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786), President George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796), the First Inaugural Address by Thomas Jefferson (1801), the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions of the Seneca Falls
Convention (1848), and the Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln (1865).
Video:
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
Lincoln Delivers the Address
President Jefferson
Washington's Farewell Address
Just the Facts: Documents of Destiny: The Revolutionary Era
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Washington, March 4, 1865
Might Makes Right
Images:
Passage From Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906).
Writing Prompts:
Your Beliefs (George Washington)
Rhetorical Style and Meaning Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address)
Discovery Education Resources: 2011
Videos:
Footage and Commentary: In 1791 First Ten Amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights
James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings
The Slavery Question and the Missouri Compromise
The Monroe Doctrine
Prelude to the Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act & the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty
Instructional Images:
Senator Daniel Webster (1782-1852).
Sen. Henry Clay, champion of Compromise of 1850.
Dred Scott with his wife, Harriet Scott.
8.2.1 / Identify and explain essential ideas of constitutional government, which are expressed in the founding documents of the United States, including the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, the Northwest ordinance, the 1787 U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, Common Sense, Washington’s Farewell (1796) and Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address(1801).
Example: The essential ideas include limited government; rule of law; due process of law; separated and shared powers; checks and balances; federalism; popular sovereignty; republicanism; representative government; and individual rights to life, liberty, and property, and freedom of conscience.
Video:
A Formal Declaration
The Anti-Federalists' Bill of Rights
The Ideas of the U.S. Constitution
The Constitution of the United States
Establishing the Bill of Rights
Common Sense
Images:
Signing of the Constitution, September 17, 1787.
United States Constitution
Audio:
The History of American Literature: Benjamin Franklin & the American Constitution
The Constitution of the United States of America: Article 6
U.S. Government: The First 200 Years: A Constitution for Yesterday, a Constitution for Today
Writing Prompts:
Freedom of the Press
Freedom
Famous Quotes (Paine’s Common Sense)
Articles:
Constitution of the United States
Bill of Rights
Discovery Education Resources: 2011
Videos:
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Turning Points: Separation of Power
Articles:
Eminent Domain
Skill Builder:
Distribution of Power in the Federal Government / Chapter 5, 6 & 7
8.3.2 / Identify and create maps showing the physical growth and development of the United States from settlement of the original thirteen colonies through Reconstruction (1877) including transportation routes used during the period.
Video:
An Introduction to the Middle Colonies
Landing in Virginia and John Smith's Leadership
The Colony of Plymouth, Founded in 1620
Introduction to the New England Colonies
Introduction to the Southern Colonies
Images:
A map of "Plimouth Colony" in the spring of 1621.
Northern settlements become royal colonies.
William Penn gets a land grant from Charles II.
Articles:
Plymouth Colony
Discovery Education Resources: 2011
Videos:
Now and Then: Growth of a Country
Now and Then: America's Physical Size / Chapter 4, 5, 6 & 7
8.3.3 / Identify and locate the major climate regions in the United States and describe the characteristics of these regions.
Video:
The Seven Regions of the United States
The American South
Regional Overview of the Midwest
Diverse Topography of the American West
Diversity of the Southern Landscape: Resources of the Mountains and Coastal Plains
The Pacific Region: Cities
Climate (Northeast region of the U.S.)
Images:
"California is a Vast Playground," SP ad.
The Mojave Desert.
Map, United States and California.
Audio:
U.S. Geography, An Overview: A Survey of the Regions & Cities
U.S. Geography, An Overview: A Tour of the Land
Details of Weather & Climate: Climate Distribution
Articles:
Climate
Discovery Education Resources: 2011
Videos:
Introduction to U.S. Geography
The States of the Pacific West Region
The Region's Topography and Climate
The Region's Physical Features
Regions of the U.S.
An Overview of the South Central Region
All about American Geography: Southwestern Region of the United States: Part 01: The Texas Gulf Coast and Gulf Coastal Plains / Chapter 4, 5, 6 & 7
8.3.9 / Analyze human and physical factors that have influenced migration and settlement patterns and relate them to the economic development of the United States.
Example: Growth of communities due to the development of the railroad, development of the west coast due to ocean ports and discovery of important mineral resources, presence of a major waterway influences economic development and the workers who are
attracted to that development.
· primary source: developed by people who experienced the events being studies(i.e., autobiographies,
diaries, letters and government documents)
· secondary source: developed by people who have researched events but did not experience them
directly (i.e. articles, biographies, Internet resources and nonfiction books.
Video:
The Railroad: Connecting the Coasts
Large Cities in the Northeast
Protecting Natural Resources of the American West Require Protection
Native American Cultures of the Pacific Region
Relationships within a Place & Movement
Eastern Woodlands
Moving A Growing Population
Early Settlers
1821: Florida Becomes a US Territory and Mexico Gains Independence
The Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804-1806
The Railroad Era: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
Early Western Settlers
Westward Expansion
The Americans Cometh
The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail and the American Dream
Women in the West
The Gold Rush and Native Americans
Images:
The interior of a Pullman railroad car.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903).
Map, expansion of railroads & land grants.
Fort Bridger, on the Oregon Trail.
Map showing principal routes to the gold area.
"Texas Coming In," 1844.
Audio:
Exploring & Colonizing North America: French Settlement in the New World
U.S. Geography, An Overview: A History of the People
The American West: Myth & Reality: "Civilizing the West"
The American West: Myth & Reality: Women of the West
The American West: Myth & Reality: Manifest Destiny
Articles:
Manifest Destiny
Debs, Eugene Victor
Discovery Education Resources: 2011
Videos:
Important Technological Developments During the Era of Jacksonian Democracy, 1828-1837
The Route Westward: Wagon Trains and Treachery
The Growth of the American West
Instructional Images:
Map, the expansion of U.S. railroads.
Workmen building the Central Pacific Railroad.
Chinese railroad workers on a hand car.
African-American cowboys.
Audio:
The American West: Myth & Reality: Manifest Destiny
The American West: Myth & Reality: Mountain Men
8.4.1 / Identify economic factors contributing to European exploration and colonization in North America, the American Revolution, and the drafting of the Constitution of the United States.
Example: The search for gold by the Spanish, French fur trade, taxation without representation.
Video:
A Stamp of Disapproval
A British tax stamp, 1765.
The Intolerable Acts, 1774
The Spanish Conquest of the New World
Spain's Efforts to Expand: The Conquistadors and the New World
The Beginnings of European Exploration
European Settlements
The Third Expedition of Champlain: The Founding of the Colony of New France (1608)
The Second Expedition of Champlain: The Founding of the Colony of Acadia (1604-1607)
The Charges against King George III
Franklin and the Quest for an Alliance
Images:
Map: Columbus's voyages to America.
Engraving of Hernan Cortes and Montezuma II by Gallo Gallina
An English map of the Americas, 1670.
Native Americans Greet Swedish Settlers
Colonial trade routes.
Audio:
Columbus & the Age of Discovery: Ancient Exploration
Columbus & the Age of Discovery: Spanish Exploration of the Americas
Exploring & Colonizing North America: Colonial Life
Writing Prompts:
Acts of Courage
Articles:
Cortes, Hernan or Cortez, Hernando
Champlain, Samuel de
Hudson, Henry
Discovery Education Resources: 2011
Videos:
The English Colonies: Why They Were Started and Why People Came
European Colonization of North America (1608-1635) / Chapter 5, 6 & 7
Notes: All chapter references in the “Notes” section are from The American Republic textbook. All indicators listed are Core indicators.
QUARTER 2 A
Theme: American Building Blocks / Government / Constitutional Principles / Checks & Balances / Creation of Laws / Political Parties
Indicator / Standard / Notes
8.1.6 / Identify the steps in the implementation of the federal government under the United States Constitution, including the First and Second Congresses of the United States (1789 – 1792).
Videos:
Composing the Constitution
Footage and Commentary: The Aftermath of the Revolutionary War, the Struggle to Unite the Country Under One Constitution, The Constitutional Convention May 25, 1787