Worksheets:

Student Information Sheet - Student Information Sheet.doc

Course Syllabus -  8th Grade US History Course Syllabus 2017 18.docx


WS #1 - Class Rules and Responsibilities - This WS must be kept the whole year for notebook check. If you need a copy you can access it through   Class Rules Resp 2017 18.doc

WS #2 - Food Fight and Historian Terms -  WS Food Fight & Basic Historian Terms.pdf

WS #3 - HWK: H & H Vocab Review   HWK for HH Vocab.docx     Somethings to help:  PP History & Historians.pptx 

WS #4 - Read Like a Historian Chart which emphasizes Sourcing, Contextualization, Corroboration, & Close Reading. The following powerpoint will help you understand this chart. -  PP Influences on Perspective.pptx

WS #5 - Snapshot Autobiography Directions (9/11/17) -      Snapshot Autobiography Instructions.pdf

WS #6 - QZ: HH Vocab Quiz (9/14/17)

WS #7 - US Constitution Worksheet - In class use only

WS #8 - Biography Project Instructions (9/18/17) - Bio Project 2017.docx    *** Use this file to create questions - Kagan Matrix Biography Proj.pdf 

WS #10 - Snapshot Autobiography

Objectives:

9/5/17 - #1 - Demonstrate proper classroom procedures.

9/6/17 - #2 - Respond to a quote about history

9/7/17 - #3 - Identify key terms historians use (basic vocab)

9/11/17 - #4 - Identify and use four reading/thinking skills of a historian

9/12/17 - #5 - Identify influences on perspective.

9/14/17 - #6 -  Differentiate between two main types of sources.

9/18/17 - #7 - Understand the three main parts of the Constitution - Preamble, Articles, & Bill of Rights

9/19/17 - #8 - Understand the requirements for the Biography Project

9/20/17 - #5 - Identify and explain how history is influenced by perspective.

9/21/17 - #9 - Collect, list, and describe 10 "artifacts".

9/22/17 - #10 - Develop twenty (20) questions based on the Kagan Matrix to ask your partner.

 

Homework:

HOMEWORK DUE DATES FOR THE YEAR:

Thursday, September 7, 2017 - Metaphoric/simile quote about history with the prompt, "History is ...."

Friday, September 8, 2017 - Student Information Sheet

Monday, September 11, 2017 - WS #3 1/2 Sheet History Vocab in Context

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - None

Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - Know which three events you plan to write about.

Thursday, September 14, 2017 - Vocab quiz on the Twelve Terms from WS #3

Friday, September 15, 2017 - None

Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - Snapshot Autobiography

Thursday, September 21, 2017 - Ten Items Day -Bring in TEN (10) items which describe different aspects of your lives. On Tuesday, 9/19, we talked about various "artifacts" that could be brought in to describe a life that can be exchanged with someone else.

Friday, September 22, 2017 - No homework, but think about twenty questions that you would need to ask to get information about the artifacts and their life.

Monday, September 25, 2017 - Twenty questions to ask your "partner" - eight must follow the Kagan Matrix

 

 

 Useful Study Material:

A PPP for Definitions of Key Terms Historians Use -  PP History & Historians.pptx

 

In case you missed class:

 

9/18/17 -  We began an activity based mini-lecture on the various things that might affect one's perspective.

9/19/17 - 1) We finished the mini-lecture on what affects perspectives.

9/20/17 - 1) Quasimodo was to take a penny and describe it.  2) We exchanged artifacts.  3) Students made a list of their subject's ten artifacts and listed five characteristics for each one.

9/21/17 - 1) Quasimodo was a review of the six effects on perspective. 2) We went over quality questions and how to use the matrix in WS #8 to create the questions.

9/22/17 - 1) We looked at what an interview should be like and modeled an interview.  2) We broke down and interviewed our subjects in order to get more information.