Social Studies 8: May 5-9,2008

Present Decades powerpoints. Research day for interdisciplinary project on the Rights of Children. Start Middle East unit. Oral History book goes to printer on Wednesday.

Social Studies 8: April 21-25

Finish typing up your oral history interview by 4/29A, 4/30B. Turn in the permission slip whether or not they give permission to be in the book. I need to know either way. Turn in the final draft of the Civil Rights DBQ outline by 4/23A, 4/24B. Work on the Decades project in class. Remember to buy your ticket to the ALL-SCHOOL PARTY before it starts at 5:30 on Friday, April 25. Be there or be square!

Social Studies 8: 4/14-4/18, 2008

Civil Rights DBQ. Go over documents and write outline for 5 paragraph essay. Accountable Talk - oral analysis activity. Do oral history interview and type up transcript. Print the transcript and get it to Mrs. Weller for proofing before May 1.

Social Studies 8: April 7-11

Vietnam War speakers. Begin Civil Rights unit: MLKJr and Malcom X DBQ. Oral History Transcript due 5/1A, 5/2B. Students must know the name of the person they intend to interview, the topic to be discussed, the date of the interview and the type of interview to be conducted by 4/9A, 4/10/B.

Social Studies 8: 3/34 - 3/28

Complete Cold War. Complete any missing work before Friday. Hand in Chapter 28 packet, Cold War notes, and Korea worksheet and map. Test on Chapter 28 3/27A, 3/28B.

Social Studies 8, 3/17-3/20/08

Hot spots in a cold war: Korean Conflict and Vietnam War. Test on maps of Eastern Europe 3/18A, 3/19B. Test on Chapter 28 3/27A, 3/28B.

Social Studies 8: March 10-14, 2008

Check Edline if you are absent. Social studies-second semester-Eastern Europe-Lessons and Assignments will spell out what we've done and what you need to do.
Eastern Europe current events (wiki article summaries). Cold War: concepts and vocabulary, Berlin Crisis, Korean War. Map test on Eastern Europe 3/18A, 3/19
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Social Studies 8: 3/3-3/7/08

WWII, chapter 27, Test 3/4A and 3/5B. Hand in WWII packet, map, and 3 worksheets (Holocaust map/article, Potsdam, causes outline. Start unit on Eastern Europe.

Social Studies 8: Feb. 19-22, 2008

Finish reading chapter 27. Speaker on the Holocaust after school Thursday, 2/21, in the Valley View Theater, 2:45-4. Parents welcome.

Social Studies 8: February 2-8

Walking through WWII. We should get up to Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.

Social Studies 8: 1/29-2/1/08

Asia:physical features, climate, economics. Physical and political map test 1/30A, 1/31B. Causes of WWII. Start chpt 27.

Social Studies 8: 1/22-1/25/08

Welcome to 2008! While the new year begins, the old semester is winding down. All assignments, due, missing, or optional, must be in by 1/25 to be included in the scores for second quarter. The final test for second quarter will be the test on chapters 25 and 26, the Roaring 20s and the Great Depression. The packet, the take-home part of the test and the objective part of the test (1/23A and 1/24B) will be the last grades of the quarter. The first unit of the new quarter will focus on the locations and geography of Asia. If you want a head start, check out the list on Edline of map items to know for the Asia test, tentitively scheduled for 2/1A and 2/4B.

Social Studies 8: 1/14-1/18

Political tensions of the 20s, social and economic problems of the 30s. Test on chapters 25 and 26: 1/23A, 1/24B.