Horizontal Curriculum Map by 3-Week Block COURSE: 8th Grade United States History Block CA State Standard(s) Topic(s)/ Essential Question(s) Content/Materials Assessments Academic Vocabulary 1A 8.1: Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy. RH 1,4 WHST 1, 4, 6 What is the relationship between the moral and political ideas of the Great Awakening and the development of revolutionary fervor? Analyze the philosophy of government expressed in the Declaration of Independence, with an emphasis on government as a means of securing individual rights. How did the American Revolution affect other nations, especially France? Describe the nation’s blend of civic republicanism, classical liberal principles, and English parliamentary tradition. History Alive: United States History (Chapter 4- 7) Supplemental Materials: Brain Pop Videos School House Rock Videos Informal Assessment: Chart of Effects of the American Revolution Discussion on the First Great Awakening Map of the Battles of the American Revolution Project Based Assessment: Timeline of the American Revolution Formal Assessment: Unit Exam Mapping Quiz w/ short constructive response Rights Parliament Petition (verb) First Great Awakening Militia Tyranny Boycott Mercenaries Ally Treaty
1B 8.2: Students analyze the political principles underlying the U.S. Constitution and compare the enumerated and implied powers of the federal government. RH 2, 5 WHST 1, 4, 5, 7 What is the significance of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the Mayflower Compact? Analyze the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution and the success of each in implementing the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. What were the major debates that occurred during the development of the Constitution and their ultimate resolutions in such areas as shared power among institutions, divided state-federal power, slavery, the rights of individuals? Describe the political philosophy underpinning the Constitution as specified in the Federalist Papers and the role of such leaders as Madison, Washington, Sherman, Governor Morris, and James Wilson in the writing and ratification of the Constitution. History Alive: United States History (Chapter 8-12) Supplemental Materials: Brain Pop Videos School House Rock Videos Informal Assessment: Chart comparing Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, and Mayflower Compact Discussion on the Articles of Confederation Venn Diagram comparing Major Debates during the development of the Constitutions North American Territorial Claims in 1796 Map Checks and Balances Diagram Branches Duties Project Based Assessment: Magna Carta Creation Federalist Papers including biography of leaders Bill of Rights Booklet Formal Assessment: Unit Exam Mapping Quiz Territory Arsenal Constitution Compromise Electoral College Ratify Republic Popular Sovereignty Legislative Branch Bill Veto Executive Branch Impeach Judicial Branch Check and Balances Amendment Self-incrimination Inauguration Party Aliens Sedition Nullify States’ Right Neutrality Isolationism Embargo
1C 8.2: Students analyze the political principles underlying the U.S. Constitution and compare the enumerated and implied powers of the federal government. RH 1, 7, 8 WHST 1, 5, 6 Understand the significance of Jefferson’s Statute for Religious Freedom as a forerunner of the First Amendment and the origins, purpose, and differing views of the founding fathers on the issue of the separation of church and state. What are the powers of government set forth in the Constitution and the fundamental liberties ensured by the Bill of Rights? What are the principles of federalism, dual sovereignty, separation of powers, checks and balances, the nature and purpose of majority rule, and the ways in which the American idea of constitutionalism preserves individual rights? History Alive: United States History (Chapter 8-12) Supplemental Materials: Brain Pop Videos School House Rock Videos Informal Assessment: Chart comparing Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, and Mayflower Compact Discussion on the Articles of Confederation Venn Diagram comparing Major Debates during the development of the Constitutions North American Territorial Claims in 1796 Map Checks and Balances Diagram Branches Duties Project Based Assessment: Magna Carta Creation Federalist Papers including biography of leaders Bill of Rights Booklet Formal Assessment: Unit Exam Mapping Quiz Territory Arsenal Constitution Compromise Electoral College Ratify Republic Popular Sovereignty Legislative Branch Bill Veto Executive Branch Impeach Judicial Branch Check and Balances Amendment Self-incrimination Inauguration Party Aliens Sedition Nullify States’ Right Neutrality Isolationism Embargo
2A 8.3: Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it. RH 1, 2, 4, 9 WHST 2, 6, 7, 8 Analyze the principles and concepts codified in state constitutions between 1777 and 1781 that created the context out of which American political institutions and ideas developed. How did the ordinances of 1785 and 1787 privatized national resources and transfer federally owned lands into private holdings, townships, & states? What were the advantages of a common market among the states as foreseen in and protected by the Constitution’s clauses on interstate commerce, common coinage, and full-faith and credit? Understand how the conflicts between Jefferson and Hamilton resulted in the emergence of two political parties. Know the significance of domestic resistance movements and ways in which the central government responded to such movements (e.g., Shays’ Rebellion, the Whiskey Rebellion). What is the basic lawmaking process and how does the Constitution provides numerous opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process and to monitor and influence government (e.g., function of elections, political parties, interest groups). History Alive: United States History (Chapter 8, 11-12) Supplemental Materials: Brain Pop Videos School House Rock Videos Informal Assessment: Venn Diagram comparing Hamilton v. Jefferson Compare the Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 Venn Diagram: Rebellions Project Based Assessment: N/A Formal Assessment: Essay on the of the free press Articles of Confederation Territory Arsenal Constitution Compromise Republic Inauguration Party Alien Sedition Nullify States’ Rights Foreign Policy Neutrality Isolationism Embargo Secretary of State Doctrine
2C 8.5: Students analyze U.S. foreign policy in the early Republic. RH 1,2,3, 7,8 WHST 1, 8, 9 Understand the political and economic causes and consequences of the War of 1812 and know the major battles, leaders, and events that led to a final peace. Know the changing boundaries of the United States and describe the relationships the country had with its neighbors (current Mexico and Canada) and Europe, including the influence of the Monroe Doctrine, and how those relationships influenced westward expansion and the War. Outline the major treaties with American Indian nations during the administrations of the first four presidents and the varying outcomes of those treaties. History Alive: United States History (Chapter 12, 14, 15, 23, 25) Supplemental Materials: Brain Pop Videos School House Rock Videos Informal Assessment: Political Cartoon Interpretation Chart of events of War of 1812 Project Based Assessment: 1) Political Cartoon Formal Assessment: Final Exam Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Converts Annex Diplomacy Tariff Secede Trail of Tears Secretary of State Doctrine Embargo Neutrality Isolationism
3A 8.6: Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced, with emphasis on the Northeast. RH 1,2,5,6,7,8 WHST 1, 5, 8 Discuss the influence of industrialization and technological developments on the region, including human modification of the landscape and how physical geography shaped human actions. Outline the physical obstacles to and the economic and political factors involved in building a network of roads, canals, and railroads. What were the reasons for the wave of immigration from Northern Europe to the United States and the affects on cities? Study the lives of black Americans who gained freedom in the North and founded schools and churches to advance their rights and communities. Trace the development of the American education system from its earliest roots, including the roles of religious and private schools and Horace Mann’s campaign for free public education and its assimilating role in American culture. Examine the women’s suffrage movement (biographies, writings, and speeches of Stanton, Mott, and Anthony). Identify common themes in American art as well as transcendentalism and individualism (e.g., writings about and by Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, History Alive: United States History (Chapter 13, 18, 19) Supplemental Materials: Brain Pop Videos School House Rock Videos Informal Assessment: Readings of Women’s Suffrage Movement biographies and writings Discussion on the reform movements including educational reform Project Based Assessment: North/South Brochure Formal Assessment: Essay on Industrialization and technological developments Plantation Cotton Gin Industrial Revolution Second Great Awakening Public Schools Abolitionists Declaration of Sentiments Discrimination Segregation Oppression
3B 8.7: Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the South from 1800 to the and the challenges they faced. RH 1,2,4,5,6,7 WHST 2, 4, 7 8.9: Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. Describe the development of the agrarian economy in the South, identify the locations of the cotton-producing states, and discuss the significance of cotton and the cotton gin. Trace the origins and development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the region’s political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and identify the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through the writings and historical documents on Nat Turner). What were the characteristics of white Southern society and how did the physical environment influenced events and conditions prior to the Civil War? Compare the lives of and opportunities for free blacks in the North with those of free blacks in the South. Describe the leaders of the movement (e.g., John Quincy Adams (constitutional amendment), John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Weld, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass). Discuss the abolition of slavery in early state constitutions. What was the significance of the Northwest Ordinance in education & in the banning of slavery in new states? History Alive: United States History (Chapter 13, 18, 19, 20) Supplemental Materials: Brain Pop Videos School House Rock Videos Informal Assessment: Venn Diagram comparing Free v. Slave Compromise of 1850 Map Discussion/Reading of Dred Scott Case Chart on Northwest Ordinance, Kansas Nebraska Act, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 Project Based Assessment: Historical Persons Project and Presentation Formal Assessment: Unit Exam Mapping Quiz w/ short constructive response Fugitive Secession The Union Oppression Discrimination Segregation Abolitionists Public schools Second Great Awakening Secede Tariff Civil Servant
4A 8.10: Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War. RH 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 WRST 2, 7, 8, 9 What were the conflicting interpretations of state and federal authority as emphasized in the speeches and writings of statesmen such as Webster and Calhoun? Trace the boundaries constituting the North and the South, the geographical differences between the two regions, and the differences between agrarians and industrialists. What were the constitutional issues posed by the doctrine of nullification and secession and the earliest origins of that doctrine? Discuss Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and his significant writings and speeches and their relationship to the Declaration of Independence (“House Divided” speech, Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, and inaugural addresses). Study the views and lives of leaders and soldiers on both sides of the war, including those of black soldiers and regiments. Describe critical developments and events in the war. How did the war affected civilians, combatants, and the environment? History Alive: United States History (Chapter 13, 20-21) Supplemental Materials: Brain Pop Videos Informal Assessment: Civil War PowerPoint Map Reading of Lincoln Speeches Project Based Assessment: Historical Person Project and Presentation Formal Assessment: Unit Exam Mapping Quiz w/ short constructive response Habeas Corpus Emancipation Draft Confederacy Union Civil War Plantation Cotton Gin
4C 8.12: Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution. RH 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 WHST 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 Trace patterns of agricultural and industrial development as they relate to climate, use of natural resources, markets, and trade and locate such development on a map. Identify the reasons for the development of federal Indian policy and the wars with American Indians and their relationship to agricultural development and industrialization. How did states and the federal government encouraged business expansion through tariffs, banking, land grants, and subsidies? Who were the entrepreneurs, industrialists, and bankers in politics, commerce, and industry during the Industrial Revolution Era? Examine the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization. Discuss child labor, working conditions, and laissez-faire policies toward big business and examine the labor movement, including its leaders, its demand for collective bargaining, and its strikes and protests over labor History Alive: United States History (Chapter 23-25) Supplemental Materials: Brain Pop Videos YouTube Videos Informal Assessment: Political Cartoon Venn Diagram: Robber Barons Discussion on federal Indian Policy: Fair or Not? Reading on the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire Project Based Assessment: N/A Formal Assessment: Final Exam Homesteader Transcontinental Railroad Industrialization Corporation Trust Monopoly Urbanization Trade Unions Refugees Tenement Buildings Industrial Revolution