Tuesday, May 7

⚡️ Math SOL & DBA

📝 Indian Removal Assignment: Contrasting Perspectives

💯 Retakes or Free Time

Schedule: 2:15 - 2:50 Period 1

🏡 Homework: Charge your computer.

Monday, May 6

⚡️ DBA Native Americans

📝 Indian Removal Assignment: Contrasting Perspectives

🏡 Homework: Charge your computer.

Wednesday, May 1

⚡️ Civil War

🎯 Standard: 9a Issues Dividing the Nation

📚 Textbook: “The Big Split,” page 147

📓 Journal: Create a T-chart describing four differences between the North and the South.

📝 Retake Prep: List five reasons people moved west.

💯 Retakes: 8b Geography & Economics

🏡 Homework: Charge your computer; study for 8c Impact on Native Americans retakes Friday.

Tuesday, April 30

⚡️ Civil War

🎯 Civil War SOLs & Title Page:

  • 9a Issues Dividing the Nation

  • 9b States’ Rights & Enslavement

  • 9c Union & Secession

  • 9d Civil War Leaders

  • 9e Battles & Events

  • 9f Effects of War

📓 Journal: 9a Words to Know

  • Copy the definition: use a dictionary or the textbook

  • Write a sentence: must be in the context of the Civil War

  • Create a visual: draw a picture in pencil, outline it using marker, then color it using crayons (make it pop!)

📝 Review: 8a America Gets Bigger

💯 Retakes: 8a Territorial Expansion

🏡 Homework: Charge your computer; study for 8b Geography & Economics Test retakes tomorrow.

Monday, April 29

⚡️ Civil War

📚 Textbook:

  • “One Nation or Two?” pages 144-145

  • “The Big Split,” pages 146-147

📝 Questions: Copy and answer these four questions based on the text and the standard.

🎬 BrainPop: Civil War Causes Movie & Quiz

🏡 Homework: Study for Westward Expansion retakes; charge your computer.

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