Friday, April 26

⚡️ Westward Expansion

💯 Westward Expansion Unit Test

  • 8a Test Territorial Expansion

  • 8b Geography & Economics

  • 8c Impact on Westward Expansion

  • 8d Inventions

  • 8e Abolition & Suffrage

📚 Read Silently

  • SOL Parent News: Civil War (paper copy distributed to students, digital copy in Canvas)

  • Personal book of choice

  • Textbook Chapter 8 “One Nation or Two?”

Thursday, April 25

⚡️ Westward Expansion

📝 Review Westward Expansion

  • Complete the Chapter 7 Practice Test

  • Check your answers using the Answer Key in Canvas

  • SOLPass Expansion (wolves)

  • BrainPop: Westward Expansion Activities

🏡 Homework: Study for the Westward Expansion Unit Test tomorrow; be sure to charge your laptop overnight and bring to class because you will need it for the test.

Wednesday, April 24

⚡️ Westward Expansion

✍🏽 Review of 8e Abolition & Suffrage:

🏡 Homework: Use your flash cards to study for the Westward Expansion Unit Test Friday; be sure to charge your laptop overnight and bring to class on Friday because you will need it for the test.

Tuesday, April 23

⚡️ Westward Expansion

✍🏽 Review of 8d Inventions:

🏡 Homework: Study for the Westward Expansion Unit Test Thursday or Friday.

Monday, April 22

⚡️ Westward Expansion

✍🏽 Review of 8c Impact on Native Americans:

🏡 Homework: Study for the Westward Expansion Unit Test Thursday.

Friday, April 19

⚡️ Westward Expansion

✍🏽 Review of 8b Geography & Economics:

🏡 Homework: Study for the Westward Expansion Unit Test next week.

Thursday, April 18

⚡️ Westward Expansion

✍🏽 Review of 8a Territorial Expansion:

🏡 Homework: Study for the Westward Expansion Unit Test next week.

Wednesday, April 17

⚡️ Westward Expansion

🎯 Review the Standard: 8e Abolition & Women’s Suffrage

📚 Review the Textbook:

🎮 Practice Game: Quizizz 8e Abolition & Suffrage

🟣 Graded Quiz: 8e Abolition & Suffrage Open Note Quiz

🎨 Digital Project:

  • Student Conferences

  • 8a Territorial Acquisition, 8b Geography & Economics, 8c Trail of Tears, 8d Inventions, & 8e Abolition & Suffrage

  • PowerPoint, Canva, or Book Creator

  • Individual, Partner, or Three People

Tuesday, April 16

⚡️ Westward Expansion

🎯 Read the Standard: 8e Abolition & Women’s Suffrage

📚 Read the Textbook: “Votes for Women,” pages 140-141

🎬 BrainPop: Women’s Suffrage

📓 Journal: 8e Women’s Suffrage & Leaders

🎨 Digital Project:

  • 8a Territorial Acquisition, 8b Geography & Economics, 8c Trail of Tears, 8d Inventions, & 8e Abolition & Suffrage

  • PowerPoint, Canva, or Book Creator (P7 Code B8LQFPP)

  • Individual, Partner, or Three People

Monday, April 15

⚡️ Westward Expansion

🎯 Read the Standard: 8e Abolition & Women’s Suffrage

📚 Read the Textbook: “Am I Not a Person?” pages 138-139

🎬 BrainPop:

  • Frederick Douglass

  • Underground Railroad

📓 Journal: 8e Abolition & Leaders

🎨 Digital Project:

  • 8a Territorial Acquisition, 8b Geography & Economics, 8c Trail of Tears, 8d Inventions, & 8e Abolition

  • PowerPoint, Canva, or Book Creator

  • Individual, Partner, or Three People

Friday, April 12

⚡️ Westward Expansion

🎯 Review the Standard: 8d Inventions

📚 Review the Textbook: “Brilliant Inventions,” pages 136-137

🎮 Practice Game: Quizizz 8d Inventions

🟣 Graded Quiz: 8d Quiz Inventions

🚶🏽‍♂️ Oregon Trail: Games posted in Canvas

🎨 Digital Project:

  • 8a Territorial Acquisition, 8b Geography & Economics, 8c Trail of Tears, & 8d Inventions

  • PowerPoint, Canva, or Book Creator

  • Individual, Partner, or Three People

Thursday, April 11

⚡️ Westward Expansion

🎯 Review the Standard: 8d Inventions

📚 Review the Textbook: “Brilliant Inventions,” pages 136-137

📓 Journal Check: 8d Inventions

🎬 BrainPop: Progress Check

🚶🏽‍♂️ Oregon Trail: Games posted in Canvas

🎨 Digital Project:

  • 8a Territorial Acquisition, 8b Geography & Economics, 8c Trail of Tears, & 8d Inventions

  • PowerPoint, Canva, or Book Creator

  • Individual, Partner, or Three People

Monday, April 8

⚡️ Westward Expansion

🎯 Read the Standard: 8d Inventions

📚 Read the Textbook: “Brilliant Inventions,” pages 136-137

📓 Journal: 8d Inventions

🎬 BrainPop: Industrial Revolution Assignment:

  • Watch the movie

  • Take the quiz

  • Do the activity

🎨 Digital Project:

  • 8a Territorial Acquisition, 8b Geography & Economics, 8c Trail of Tears, & 8d Inventions

  • PowerPoint, Canva, or Book Creator

  • Individual, Partner, or Three People

Friday, April 5

⚡️ Westward Expansion

🎯 Standard: 8c Impact on Native Americans

📓 Journal Check: Westward Expansion

🎮 Practice Game: Quizizz 8c Impact on Native Americans

🟣 Graded Quiz: 8c Impact on Native Americans

🎬 BrainPop: Westward Expansion Assignments

🎨 Digital Project:

  • 8a Territorial Acquisition, 8b Geography & Economics, & 8c Trail of Tears

  • PowerPoint, Canva, or Book Creator

  • Individual, Partner, or Three People

Thursday, April 4

⚡️ Westward Expansion

💯 Retakes: Last call for Marking Period 3

🎯 Standard: 8c Impact on Native Americans

📚 Textbook: Review “Trail of Tears,”
pages 134-135

Journal: Outline Trail of Tears, pp 134-5

🎬 BrainPop: Reservations Assignment

🎨 Digital Project:

  • 8a Territorial Acquisition, 8b Geography & Economics, & 8c Trail of Tears

  • PowerPoint, Canva, or Book Creator

  • Individual, Partner, or Three People

Wednesday, April 3

⚡️ Westward Expansion

📣 Announcement: Check StudentVue! Last chance for retakes Thursday.

🎯 Standard: 8c Impact on Native Americans

🎬 BrainPop: Trail of Tears Assignment

📚 Textbook: “Trail of Tears,”
pages 134-135

Journal: 8c Trail of Tears

🎨 Digital Project:

  • 8a Territorial Acquisition, 8b Geography & Economics, & 8c Trail of Tears

  • PowerPoint, Canva, or Book Creator

  • Individual, Partner, or Three People


Tuesday, April 2

⚡️ Westward Expansion

📣 Announcement: Check StudentVue! Last chance for A New Nation Test retakes today and Thursday.

🎯 Standards:

📓 Journal:

  • BrainPop Assignments Tracker

  • Digital Project Tracker

🎬 BrainPop: Gold Rush Assignment

🎨 Digital Project:

  • Choose an application: PowerPoint, Canva, or Book Creator

  • Choose your team: Individual, Partner, or Three People

  • Include the standards: 8a Territorial Expansion & 8b Geography & Economics

💯 Retakes: A New Nation & Westward Expansion



Monday, April 1

⚡️ Westward Expansion

📣 Announcement: Check StudentVue! Last chance for American Revolution Test retakes Tuesday or Thursday of this week.

🎯 Standard: 8b Geographic & Economic Factors

📚 Review:

Journal Check: Westward Expansion

🎮 Practice Game: Quizizz 8b Geographic & Economic Factors

🟣 Open Note Quiz: 8b Geographic & Economic Factors

🎨 Digital Project:

  • 8a Territorial Acquisition & 8b Geography & Economics

  • PowerPoint, Canva, or Book Creator

  • Individual, Partner, or Three People

Friday, March 22

⚡️ Westward Expansion

🎯 Standard: 8b Geographic & Economic Factors

🎬 BrainPop: Gold Rush Movie only

📚 Read: “Wealth & Wild West,” p 132-133

📓 Journal:

  • Westward Expansion Title Page

  • 8a Territorial Expansion Outline: Notes with Visual Representations

  • 8a Territorial Acquisitions: Annotated Map

  • 8b Geographic & Economic Factors: Notes with Visual Representations

🎬 BrainPop: Gold Rush Activities

Thursday, March 21

⚡️ Westward Expansion

Please add methods of acquisition to your map.

🎯 Standard: 8a Territorial Expansion

📚 Review the Textbook:

📓 Journal: Finish color-coded map illustrating the territories and methods of acquisition.

🎮 Practice Game: Quizizz 8a Territorial Expansion

💯 Assessments: 8a Open Note Quiz Territorial Expansion & New Nation Retakes

🎨 Digital Project: Use PowerPoint, Canva, or Book Creator to describe how each of the five territories were acquired.