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Welcome to 8 th Grade U.S. History

Welcome to 8 th Grade U.S. History. Mr. Hughes. Monday, 12 May 2014. Planner page: 94. 1. Current Events (Set #33) 2. Jeopardy (I & II) 3. Civil War newspaper 4. Standards Review 5. Ch. 15 Test tomorrow. Today ’ s History Standards is: 8.10. Tuesday, 13 May 2014. Planner page: 94.

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Welcome to 8 th Grade U.S. History

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  1. Welcome to 8th Grade U.S. History Mr. Hughes

  2. Monday, 12 May 2014 Planner page: 94 • 1. Current Events (Set #33) • 2. Jeopardy (I & II) • 3. Civil War newspaper • 4. Standards Review • 5. Ch. 15 Test tomorrow Today’s History Standards is: 8.10

  3. Tuesday, 13 May 2014 Planner page: 94 • 1. Current Event #2 • 2. Jeopardy (III) • 3. Civil War Test • 4. Word Search • 5. Ch. 15 Exit Slip: • Conflict-Growth-Change Today’s History Standards is: 8.10

  4. Wednesday, 14 May 2014 Planner page: 94 • 1. Current Event #3 • 2. Conflict-Growth-Change • 3. Reconstruction Input Chart • 4. Museum project Today’s History Standards is: 8.11

  5. Friday, 16 May 2014 1. Current Event #4 2. Ch. 16 Vocabulary 3. Rebuilding the South 4. Reconstruction Plans 5. Foldable review 6. Museum research Planner page: 95 Today’s History Standards is: 8.10

  6. Current Events (Set 33) 1. “The Bare Necessities: Disney’s Reboot of 1967 ‘The Jungle Book’ to Overhaul Racist Overtones.” Original Disney classic was criticized for its negative racial stereotyping, inequalities and gender bias. Rudyard Kipling’s original book was written from a British colonialist perspective

  7. Current Event #2 2. “Washington Monument Reopens 32 Months After Suffering 5.8 Earthquake Damage in 2011.” 130 year-old, 555-foot obelisk had more than 150 cracks & $15 million in damage to its granite & marble. 100,000 tons / 898 steps World’s tallest freestanding stone structure & obelisk was originally built between: 1848-1884

  8. Current Event #3 • 3. “New World Mystery: 500 Year-old Shipwreck off Haitian Coast Could be Columbus’ Flagship, the Santa Maria.” • Underwater explorer finds 15th century cannon among sunken wreckage; it sank on Christmas day 1492. Confirmed claim would be one of the most significant underwater archaeological discoveries ever

  9. Current Event #4 4. “State of Emergency: May Firestorm Leaves San Diego County Up in Flames; 10,000 Acres Burned.” 9 separate wildfires force evacuation orders and school closures from Camp Pendleton to El Cajon. _____ structures burned; suspicious causes under investigation;

  10. Civil War Newspaper • 1. Choose 1 Civil War battle or event • 2. Choose 1 Civil War person (civilian or soldier) • 3. Write a brief article about each one • 4. Draw an illustration representing each (with captions). • 5. The event and person don’t have to be connected (ie., Clara Barton & Gettysburg, or Stonewall Jackson & Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln & Siege at Vicksburg) Today’s History Standard is 8.10

  11. Chapter 15 Review • Standards Review: Page 505-506 • Questions 1-5 • Question 9A, 9B, 9C • Question 12 • Standards Assessment: Page 507 • Questions 1-5

  12. Abraham Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address “With malicetoward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lastingpeace among ourselves and with all nations.” Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address Saturday, March 4, 1865

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