8th Grade Yearly Plan (Work in Progress)
Scope and Sequence
John Sedgwick Junior High/Ms. Herl/2014-2015
Dates
(tentative)
Historical Thinking
Skills
Content/Topic
Chapters/Suppleme
-ntary Texts
Assessments
September
Historical Argumentation:
Mini DBQ – begin thesis
writing/questioning/argument
ative writing
Classroom Routines
Unit 1 – American Society
in the Making

Early
Exploration and
competition to
control
Americans by
European
Countries

Establishment
of 13 colonies
(Jamestown,
Roanoke),
American
Culture
(Puritanism,
work ethic,
colonial life)
Unit 2 – Road to
Independence: From
Loyalists to
Revolutionaries

Growing
Religious
Pluralism

Proclamation of
1763 and the
acts and events
that it led to
(Stamp Act,
Boston
Massacre, Tea
Act, Boston Tea
Party,
Intolerable Acts

First
Continental
Congress 1774

Battles of
Lexington and
Concord 1775

Second
Continental
Congress 1775

Declaration of
Independence
1776
Chapter 2/Center For
learning supplementary
Chapter 3/Center For
Learning supplementary
Formatives for
Chapter 2/3
Mini DBQ – one
source, essential
question write up
Chapter 6/Center For
Learning supplementary
Formatives for
Chapter 6
Mini DBQ – one
source, essential
question write up
Unit 3 - The War for
Independence

The American
Revolution
1776-1783

Continental
Chapter 7/Center For
Learning supplementary
Pieces of Chapter 8
Formatives for
Chapter 7
Mini DBQ – one
source, essential
question write up
Historical Interpretation and
Synthesis:
Relevant and reliable sources,
ability to describe, analyze,
evaluate, and create diverse
interpretations of the past
EX: What is appropriate
historical evidence?
How has immigration changed
from early exploration to the
time period of the 13 colonies?
October
Historical Argumentation:
thesis
writing/questioning/argument
ative writing
Historical Causation:
cause and effect, patterns over
time, periodization (analyze,
identify, describe and evaluate
turning points in history
EX: What was the turning point
for colonists that lead to the
First Continental Congress?
Historical Interpretation and
Synthesis:
Relevant and reliable sources,
ability to describe, analyze,
evaluate, and create diverse
interpretations of the past
(point of view)
Historical Comparison and
Contextualization:
Ability to describe, compare
and evaluate multiple historical
developments and perspectives
End of
October/Beginning
of November
EX - Whats going on in history
when these events take place
EX: What was going on in
colonies when Boston Massacre
occurred?
Historical Argumentation:
thesis
writing/questioning/argument
ative writing
Historical Causation:
cause and effect, patterns over
time, periodization (analyze,
identify, describe and evaluate
turning points in history
Historical Interpretation and
Synthesis:
Relevant and reliable sources,
ability to describe, analyze,
evaluate, and create diverse
interpretations of the past
(point of view)



Congress
Tories,
Loyalists,
Patriots
Treaty of Paris
Issues after the
war – Shays
Rebellion/lead
into Unit 4
EX: What was the turning point
for Patriots/Continental Army
that lead to the British defeat at
Yorktown? Or What were the
factors that lead to the end of
the Revolutionary War?
What factors contributed to a
culture of challenge after the
end of the Revolutionary War?
November/Decem
ber
Historical Argumentation:
thesis
writing/questioning/argument
ative writing
Historical Interpretation and
Synthesis:
Relevant and reliable sources,
ability to describe, analyze,
evaluate, and create diverse
interpretations of the past
(point of view)
Historical Comparison and
Contextualization:
Ability to describe, compare
and evaluate multiple historical
developments and perspectives
January/February
Unit 4 – The Birth of the
United States

Continental
Congress

Articles of
Confederation –
weaknesses

Constitutional
Convention
1787

Ratification of
the
Constitution –
Federalist
Papers

Bill of Rights

The
Constitution
and the Seven
Principles
Finish Unit 4 CBA (before
Christmas Break –
students chose essential
question and
research/After break –
final paper/brochure)
Unit 5 –
Washington/Adams and
Jeffersonian Eras

Economics –
national bank
and Hamilton

Challenges for
the new
government –
interpreting the
constitution/

Alien and
Sedition Acts

Westward
expansion and
the Louisiana
Purchase

Lewis and Clark
Chapter 8/Center For
Learning supplementary
Formatives for
Chapter 8
Summative –
Small content
assessment and
CBA –
Constitutional
Issues
Chapter 9/10/Center For
Learning supplementary
Formatives for
Chapter 9/10
Mini DBQ –2 to 3
sources, essential
question write up

February/March
End of March
April
May/June
foreign policy from revolution
(avoidance) to
(British
interference)
War of 1812
Unit 5 –National and
Regional Growth, Slavery,
Jacksonian Era (removal
and reform), states rights

Early Industry
– free
enterprise and
factories

Improvements
in Farming
technology –
cotton gin

Slavery –
expansion, life
of slave

Nationalism vs
Sectionalism:
Missouri
Compromise
and the Monroe
Doctrine –
impact and
implications

Jacksonian Era
– changes in
democratic
ideas from
early nation to
Jackson era
-policies
toward native
americans –
trail of tears

Debate over
states rights,
sectional
differences
Unit 6 – Manifest Destiny
and the movement west –
impact and implications

Oregon Trail

Texas/Mexico

California Gold
Rush
Unit 7 – New Wave of
Immigration and Reform

Hopes of
immigrates

Migration

Waves of
reform

Womens right
movement

Abolition
movement –
underground
railroad
Unit 8 – The Breaking of a
Nation and the Civil War

Causation –
leading up to
Chapter 11/Center For
Learning supplementary
Chapter 12/Center For
Learning supplementary
Formatives for
Chapter 11/12
Mini DBQ –2 to 3
sources, essential
question write up
– mini essay
Chapter 13/Center For
Learning supplementary
Formatives for
Chapter 13
Mini DBQ –3 to 4
sources, essential
question write up
– mini essay
Chapter 14/Center For
Learning supplementary
Formatives for
Chapter 14
Mini DBQ –3 to 4
sources, essential
question write up
mini essay
Chapter 15/16/17/Center
For Learning
supplementary
Formatives for
Chapter
15/16/17
Mini DBQ –6
the conflict
Time Allows – Unit 9
Reconstruction
sources, essential
question write up
– essay