Week of May 4-8,2015

What is Debate? Debate is a structured discussion. The degree of structure and formality is up to you. There are usually two teams of at least two people each. One team, the Affirmative, supports the resolution. The second team, the Negative, opposes it.

This week students will examine the power of words through the film The Great Debaters. Students will also learn the effects of the Jim Crow Laws and cases such as

 Plessy vs. Ferguson on the black community in the South.

Students will also gain a better understanding of the Civil Rights Act of 1763 and Dr. Martin Luther King's efforts.
"Debate is blood sport. It's combat. Your weapons are words".  -Mr. Tolson   

STAAR IS HERE............It is time to put all the knowledge and skills gained throughout the year to test....in Thomas Paine's words "these are the times that try men's souls" this is your moment to shine do not be discouraged by the diffuculties you might face remember the strategies I have taught you....CONQUER STAAR!!! :)

Week of April 13-17, 2015

COUNTDOWN TO STAAR EXAM!!!! 5 DAYS LEFT

APRIL 20TH-MATH
APRIL 21ST-SOCIAL STUDIES
APRIL 22ND-SCIENCE

RECONSTRUCTION ERA

WHAT DOES SHARECROPPER MEAN?

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK 

REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW

MONDAY : EUROPEAN EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION ERA

TUESDAY: AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND CREATING A NEW GOVERNMENT

WEDNESDAY: NEW NATION(WASHINGTON-MONROE), INDUSTRIAL                  REVOLUTION, AGE OF JACKSON

THURSDAY: WESTWARD EXPANSION, REFORM MOVEMENTS, CAUSES OF CIVIL WAR, CIVIL WAR

Week of April 7-10, 2015

Road to Civil War

Causes:

Sectionalism

-Daniel Webster

-Henry Clay

-John C. Calhoun

Slavery 

-Missouri Compromise of 1820

-Compromise of 1850

-Kansas and Nebraska 1854

State's Rights

Bleeding Kansas

Dred Scott vs. Sandford

Election of 1860

December 20th 1860

Week of March 30-April 1, 2015

Monday-Review Westward Expansion 

Begin: Age of Reform 

Tuesday-Reading STAAR

Wednesday-Continue with Age of Reform 

2nd Great Awakening 

Temperance movement 

Education Reform

Prison Reform

Thursday-Abolotionist Movement 

Women's Rights Movement Review 

Friday-Exam introduce causes of Civil War a.k.a the breakup 

Week of March 23-27,2015

8th Grade U.S. History

The Age of Jackson

-Election of 1824

-6th President John Q. Adams

  **Corrupt Bargain** 

       -Henry Clay

-Election of 1828

-7th President Andrew Jackson

 *democracy expands

 *Spoils System

 *Nullification Crisis

  -John C. Calhoun 

  -Tariff of 1828

 *Indian Removal Act 

 *Worcester vs. Georgia

 **Trail of Tears**

 *Jackson Vetoes 2nd Bank of the U.S.

Westward Expansion/Manifest Destiny

Roots of Manifest Destiny

James K. Polk- 3 promises

Texas Annexation

Oregon Treaty

Mexican Cession

Gadsden Purchase

Week of March 16-20, 2015

Industrial Revolution

-free enterprise

-cottage industry

**Efficient Production**

-factorization 

-urbanization 

-Samuel Slater

-Slater's Mill

-Lowell's Mill

-Interchangeable Parts

  Eli Whitney

-Steam Powered Engine 

-Inventions in Agriculture 

   •cotton gin 

   •mechanical reaper 

   •steel plow 

Developments in transportation 

-steamboat 

-Erie canal 

-railroad 

-national road 

Communications 

-the telegraph