Joanna Lane
Grade 8
Early American History
Lesson Plan
Unit: 1 Thinking Like a Historian – 5 days
Date
Objective
8/19/19
8/20/19
Mapping skills
review
8/21/19
Skills review –
Reasons for
Exploration
Roanoke
TEKS
Activities
N/A
Overview
Set up seating chart
Rules and Procedures
8.29
ABCDEF
8.30 BC
Map of Errors
Turn in parent signature sheet
All About Me
Primary & Secondary Sources
Lesson launch video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWY50mH5awQ
Lost Colony Roanoke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0L3RkyfEjQ&t=333s
Discussion Questions – Oral
8/22/19
8/23/19
Reasons for
European
Exploration
 Political
 Religious
 Economic
 Social
Reasons for
European
Exploration
8.2AB
8.2AB
Lesson launch video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do4Ryapg3eU&t=7s
Reasons for Exploration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Avc5FS159A
13 colonies packet
13 colonies PowerPoint
Lesson launch video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUmi3iNMawo
Continuation of previous day’s activities
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Political
Religious
Economic
Social
Unit 2: Colonial America -15 days
Date
8/26/19
Objective
Establishment of the 13
Colonies
New England
Religious Freedom
8/27/19
Establishment of the 13
Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
TEKS
8.1 A –
Major Eras
Exploration
&
Colonizatio
n
8.1 A –
Major Eras
Exploration
&
Colonizatio
n
Religious Freedom
8/28/19
Establishment of the 13
Colonies
Southern Colonies
Religious Freedom
8/29/19
13 Colonies
- Push & Pull Factors
8/30/19
Skills test
Activities
Lesson Launch Video
13 Colonies Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjbA
OU-YPeE
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Breakdown of New England’s
Religions, Economics and Social
factors using a fill in chart along
with PowerPoint.
Lesson Launch Video:
Discovering America
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Breakdown of the Middle
Colonies’ Religions, Economics
and Social factors using a fill in
chart along with PowerPoint.
8.1 A –
Lesson Launch Video:
Major Eras
Exploration Start It Up….13 Colonies
&
Colonizatio
 Breakdown of the Southern
n
Colonies’ Religions, Economics
and Social factors using a fill in
chart along with PowerPoint.
 ESP chart
 13 Colonies Doodle Notes
Using textbook on page 125
Under each colony, students will
list the reason for being founded,
who settled and the major
religions.
8.29 – All
SLO Pretest – All 8th grade
levels
 H-TEG’s test taking instructions
via PowerPoint
9/2/19
Student Holiday
9/3/19
9/4/19
Significant Dates
1607
1620
8.1 C
9/5/19
Groups that settled in America
8.11C
8.23 A
SLO Pretest – All 8th grade
- H-TEG’s test taking instructions
via PowerPoint
- Review and Discuss Answers
- Lesson Launch
- Mayflower Compact WS
- Jamestown & Plymouth Chart
- Questions Cubes
 Lesson Launch
9/6/19
-Immigrants
 French
 British
 Dutch
 Swedes
 Spanish
 African Americans
8.25 A
Groups that settled in America
8.11C
8.23 A
8.25 A
-Religious
 Separatists/Pilgrims
 Quakers
 Catholics
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EQ Questions and Reading in
Pairs
Fill In Charts will Reading
Lesson Launch Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egjNh
XhkRmE
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Colonies Map Quiz
Colonies packet –Religious Charts
EQ Charts – Completion
Colonies packet –Mercantilsim
Life as a Colonist – PowerPoint
and Outline Notes
Daily Life WS-Homework
9/9/19
Mercantilism
8.4A
9/10/19
(Location) Physical and human
geographic factors
8.10 ABC
8.11 A
8.12AD
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8.12ABC
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8.7BC
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Population Distribution
Economic Differences
9/11/19
9/12/19
Slavery Expands due to
-Transatlantic slave trade
-Triangular Trade
Slaves vs. Free Blacks during
the Colonial Era
The First Great Awakening
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8.25 B
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9/13/19
Growth of Representative
Government
8.3ABC
8.20A
8.25 A
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Magna Carta
Parliament
Virginia House of Burgesses
9/11 Video Clip– A day of
Remembrance
Slavery in Colonial America
PowerPoint and Outline Notes
Daily Life Graphing Skills WS
History Now Activity
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/co
ntent/great-awakening
Baggie Sequencing of Events
Roots of Representative in
America PowerPoint and Outline
Notes
Essential Questions
Growth WS
Civic Virtue
9/16/19
Constitution
Week
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut
8.3ABC
8.20A
8.25 A
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Celebrate Freedom Video
Declaration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=SvMos3iODw8
Declaration Doodle Note
Same as above
9/17/19
Constitution
Week
Pep Rally
Key People in Government
Ideas
John Locke
Charles de Montesquieu
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8.3ABC
8.20A
8.25 A
st
9/18/19
Constitution
Week
9/19/19
Constitution
Week
9/20/19
Constitution
Week
9/23/19
Study Guide & Review
All from 1
Six Weeks
Study Guide & Review
No school weather day
All from 1st
Six Weeks
Colonization Exam
No school weather day
All from 1st
Six Weeks
All from 1st Six Weeks
9/24/19
Pep Rally
9/25/19
Six Weeks Review
9/26/19 – Lane
Absent
Character Counts
September: Focus - Trust
All from 1st
Six Weeks
All from 1st
Six Weeks
All from 1st
Six Weeks
Non
Specific
9/27/19 – Lane
Absent
End of Six
Weeks
Six Weeks Benchmark
District Mandate
Create a visual representation of 8.29G
historical information from data
provided.
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Celebrate Freedom Video
Key influences on early
government PowerPoint and
Outline Notes
Exit Quiz
Celebrate Freedom Video
Recap Great Awakening
Study Guide
Celebrate Freedom Video
Study Guide – Review Answers
Colonization Jeopardy
Celebrate Freedom Video
Unit Exam
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Unit Exam – Day 2
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Colonization Kahoot
Student to BYOD
Test in class
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Character Counts
Video
WS packet
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Making a Colony Activity
Unit 3: American Independence – 10 days
Date
9/30/19 – Lane
Absent
Staff
Development
10/1/19
Pep Rally
Objective
Character Counts
October: Focus – Courage
District Mandate
10/2/19
French & Indian War – 2 day
lesson
TEKS
Non
Specific
Activities
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NO Sub needed
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Character Counts
Video
WS packet
Review Checkpoint
Data Collection
French and Indian War PowerPoint
and Notes
Pass out late grade parent signature
sheets
French and Indian War Causes &
Effects Worksheets and Reading
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10/3/19
10/4/19 – Early
dismal
Homecoming
10/7/19
Causes of the American
Revolution
- Introduction
Causes of the American
Revolution
 Proclamation of 1763
 Intolerable Acts
 Stamp Act
 Mercantilism
 Lack of
Representation in
Parliament
 Civil Disobedience
 Boston Tea Party
 Boston Massacre
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https://bevillems.pwcs.edu/common/
pages/UserFile.aspx?fileId=7292778
https://www.nps.gov/teachers/classr
ooms/upload/The-French-andIndian-War-1754-1763-Unit-6.pdf
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Same as above
Tax and Tea Song with lyrics
Cheat Sheets with PowerPoint
8.4A
8.20AB
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Reader’s Theatre Packets
Causes of the Revolution = Fill In
chart
10/8/19
Key people and their roles
during the American
Revolution
 Abigail Adams
 John Adams
 Wentworth Cheswell
 Samuel Adams
 Mercy Otis Warren
 James Armistead
 Benjamin Franklin
 Crispus Attucks
 King George III
 Patrick Henry
 Thomas Jefferson
 Marquis de Lafayette
 Thomas Paine
 George Washington
 Henry David Thoreau
 John Paul Jones
8.4B
8.20B
8.22AB
8.23E
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Key People of the Revolution
PowerPoint and Fill In Chart
10/9/19
Same as above adding
8.29DE
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Kahoot Key People Review –BYOD
day
10/10/19
Identify Bias and Point of
Views
Explain issues surrounding
events of the American
Revolution
8.4C
8.15C
8.19A
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TPT Declaration of Independence
Activity – students will discover the
key phrases and elements
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Declaration of
Independence
Unalienable Rights
Civic Virtue
8.20A
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WS Packet with simplified
vocabulary used in the DOI
8.4C
8.29H
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Video Lesson
Notes while viewing
Battles of the Revolution Ladders
Identify colonial grievances
listed in the Declaration of
Independence
10/11/19
Explain issues surrounding
events of the American
Revolution
 Declaration of
Independence
 Battles of Lexington
& Concord
 Battle of Saratoga
 Battle of Yorktown
 Valley Forge
 Treaty of Paris 1783
Geographic locations of
battles
10/14/19
Differentiate between, locate
and use valid primary and
secondary sources, such as
media and news services,
biographies, interviews and
artifacts to acquire
information about the US.
8.29A
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American History Document Based
Questions - What Led to the
American Colonists Declaring Their
Independence from Great Britain?
10/15/19
Pep Rally
8.29B
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Road to Revolution Timeline and
Protests Posters
8.29C
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Road to Revolution Timeline and
Protests Posters – Day 2
Too Late to Apologize Activity
10/17/19
Analyze information by
applying absolute and
relative chronology through
sequencing, categorizing,
identifying cause and effect,
compare/contrasting, main
idea, summarizing,
predictions, and inferences.
Organize and interpret
information from outlines,
reports, databases, and
visuals. (Maps, graphs and
charts).
Review of Unit
10/18/19
Unit 3 Checkpoint
All TEKS
listed
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Study Guide
Kahoot It Review
BYOD
Test
10/16/19
All TEKS
listed
Unit 4: Writing the Constitution & Creating a Nation – 10 days
All process TEKS used: 8.29ABCDEFGH 8.30ABC
Date
10/21/19
10/22/19
10/23/19
10/24/19
10/25/19
10/28/19
10/29/19
Pep Rally
10/30/19
10/31/19
8.31A
Objective
TEKS
Summarize the strengths
and weaknesses of the
Articles of Confederation
Analyze the issues of the
Constitutional
Convention of 1787,
including the Great
Compromise and 3/5
Compromise
Identify how colonial
grievances listed in the
Declaration of
Independence were
addressed in the US
Constitution and Bill of
Rights.
8.15B
Analyze how the US
Constitution reflects the
principles of limited
government,
republicanism, checks
and balances, federalism,
separation of powers,
popular sovereignty and
individual rights.
Same as above
Analyze the arguments of
the Federalist and AntiFederalists, including
those of Alexander
Hamilton, Patrick Henry,
James Madison and
George Mason.
Summarize the purposes
for amending the US
Constitution
Define and give
examples of Unalienable
Rights, summarize rights
guaranteed in the Bill of
Rights; the impact of the
1st Amendment on the
American way of life.
Identify examples of
responsible citizenship,
8.15D
8.4D
8.15 C
8.17A
8.16A
8.19AB
8.25C
8.19C
Activities
including obeying rules
and laws, staying
informed on public
issues, voting and serving
on juries.
Review of Unit Topics
All Unit TEKS
11/1/19
American Revolution
Quiz
Unit 5: Early Republic – Addressing Challenges– 10 days
Date
Objective
TEKS
Activities
11/4/19
Staff Development
11/5/19
All from 2nd Six Weeks
All from 2nd Six Weeks
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11/6/19
11/7/19
Six Weeks Benchmark
Six Weeks Benchmark
All from 2nd Six Weeks
All from 2nd Six Weeks
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11/8/19
End of Six Weeks
11/11/19
11/12/19
Describe major domestic
problems faced by the
leaders of the New
Republic, including
maintaining national
security, creating a stable
economic system, and
setting up the court
system.
Summarize arguments
regarding protective
tariffs, taxation, and the
banking system.
8.5A
8.5B
11/13/19
Early Dismissal
11/14/19
11/15/19
Unit 6: Age of Jackson – Democracy Expands 1820s-1830s – 10 days
11/18/19
11/19/19
11/20/19
11/21/19
11/22/19
Colonization
Kahoot
Student to BYOD
Test in class
Test in class –
Day 2
Review test and
data check
12/2/19
12/3/19
12/4/19
12/5/19
12/6/19
Unit 7: Westward Expansion – 8 days
12/9/19
12/10/19
12/11/19
12/12/19
12/13/19
12/16/19
12/17/19
CMS Choir and Band
Christmas Showcase
12/18/19
12/19/19
12/20/19
Early Dismissal & End of
Semester
Unit 8: Industrialism & Reform – 12 days
Date
1/6/20
Staff Development
1/7/20
1/8/20
1/9/20
1/10/20
1/13/20
1/14/20
1/15/20
Early Dismissal
1/16/20
Band All Region
1/17/20
Band All Region
1/20/20
Staff Development
1/21/20
1/22/20
1/23/20
1/24/20
Objective
Skills test
TEKS
8.29 – All levels
Activities
SLO Mid Term – All 8th
grade
Unit 9: Sectionalism – Growing Division – 10 days
1/27/20
1/28/20
1/29/20
1/30/20
1/31/20
Band Solo & Ensemble
2/3/20
2/4/20
2/5/20
2/6/20
2/7/20
Unit 10: Civil War – 10 days
Date
Objective
TEKS
Activities
Objective
TEKS
Activities
2/10/20
2/11/20
2/12/20
2/13/20
2/14/20
2/17/20
Staff Development
2/18/20
2/19/20
2/20/20
2/21/20 End of Six
Weeks
Unit 11: Reconstruction – 10 days
Date
2/24/20
2/25/20
2/26/20
2/27/20
2/28/20
Jazz Band Concert
3/2/20
3/3/20
3/4/20
Early Dismissal
3/5/20
3/6/20
Skills test
8.29 – All levels
SLO Pretest – All 8th
grade
STAAR Review Week – Exploration & Colonization
Date
Objective
TEKS
Activities
TEKS
Activities
3/16/20
3/17/20
3/18/20
3/19/20
3/20/20
STAAR Review Week – American Revolution & Independence
3/23/20
3/24/20
3/25/20
3/26/20
3/27/20
3/30/20
3/31/20
Band UIL Concert &
Sight Reading
4/1/20
Early Dismissal
Band UIL Concert &
Sight Reading
4/2/20
Band UIL Concert &
Sight Reading
4/3/20
STAAR Review Week – Constitution & Early Republic
Date
Objective
4/6/20
4/7/20
STAAR Math
4/8/20
STAAR Reading
4/9/20 End of Six Weeks
4/10/20
Student Holiday
4/13/20
Staff Development
4/14/20
4/15/20
4/16/20
4/17/20
STAAR Review Week Westward Expansion & Reform
Date
Objective
TEKS
Activities
TEKS
Activities
TEKS
Activities
4/20/20
4/21/20
4/22/20
4/23/20
Honors Band UIL @
NHS
4/24/20
STAAR Review Week Civil War & Reconstruction
Date
Objective
4/27/20
4/28/20
4/29/20
4/30/20
Honors Band Out @ CY
Falls HS
5/1/20
STAAR Review Week
Date
Objective
5/4/20
5/5/20
5/6/20
5/7/20
Science STAAR
5/8/20
Social Studies STAAR
Unit 12: Rights & Responsibilities
Date
Objective
TEKS
Activities
Date
Objective
TEKS
Activities
5/11/20
5/12/20
5/13/20
5/14/20
5/15/20
5/18/20
5/19/20
5/20/20
5/21/20
5/22/20
Date
5/25/20
Student Holiday
5/26/20
5/27/20
5/28/20 End of Final
Semester
Objective
TEKS
Activities