Welcome to Opening Day
in 8th Grade U.S. History!
TalkinBaseball Original Version.mp3
“In our Sunday perambulations of late,
through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we
have observed several parties of
youngsters playing ‘base’, a certain
game of ball. Let us go forth awhile and
get better air in our lungs. Let us leave
our closed rooms…The game of ball is
glorious!” -Walt Whitman, 1846
Please rise for our national
anthem!
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O say can you see
By the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight’s last
gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and
bright stars,
thro’ the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched
Were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets red glare
The bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the
night
That our flag was still
there.
O say, does that starspangled
Banner yet wave?
O’er the land of the free
And the home of the
brave?
And the rockets red glare
The bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled
Banner yet wave?
O’er the land of the free
And the home of the brave?
PLAY BALL!
Eighth grade begins with a study of the political
principles and major events that led to the
founding of our nation’s government.
From there, we will study the
divergent paths people took…
…and their political,
economic, and
physical
challenges they
faced and their
lasting
contributions to
our nation.
We will take a look at
the BIG HITTERS from
six teams that cover
different eras of
America’s past.
Colonies Team
John Smith
Pocahontas
William Bradford
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
John Winthrop
John Peter Zenger
Nathaniel Bacon
Pocahontas
John Smith
Nathaniel Bacon
Revolution Team
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Patrick Henry
George Washington
Mercy Otis Warren
Abigail Adams
John Hancock
Paul Revere
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Constitution Team
John Adams
John Adams
James Madison
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Gouverneur Morris
James Wilson
George Mason
Alexander Hamilton
Edmund Randolph
Daniel Shays
Daniel Shays
James Madison
Manifest Destiny Team
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
Sam Houston
Stephen Austin
Tecumseh
Narcissa Whitman
John C. Fremont
Brigham Young
Andrew Jackson
Brigham Young
Tecumseh
Civil War Team
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
Robert E. Lee
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
George Pickett
Ulysses S. Grant
George McClellan
William T. Sherman
Mathew Brady
Clara Barton
John Wilkes Booth
Ulysses S. Grant
Frederick Douglass
Robert E. Lee
Industry Team
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
John Pierpont Morgan
Jay Gould
Leland Stanford
Eugene V. Debs
Samuel Gompers
Theodore Roosevelt
Ida Tarbell
Theodore Roosevelt
Leland Stanford
Samuel Gompers
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
"Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game.
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Jack Norworth (1908)
•one of the most widely sung songs in America.
•inspired when he was riding a New York City subway train
and he spotted a sign that said:
"Ballgame Today at the Polo Grounds."
•some baseball-related lyrics popped into his head
•later set to some music by Albert Von Tilzer
DID YOU KNOW? Neither Norworth
nor Tilzer had ever been to a baseball
game at the time the song was written!
Programs!
Get your programs!
Let’s take a look at the
Rules of the Game in 8th grade
U.S. History.
Don’t forget to return your
signature page tomorrow.
Your turn to play…
• Directions: Each member of your
team will pick one player and create
a trading card for that player. Your
team will share your set of cards
with the class.
front of card:
Optional team
Team Name
logo
1. Portrait here
2. Name and life dates
Front of card:
Constitution Team
Name
life dates
back of card:
3) Player’s accomplishments;
why important to team ( 3 or
more).
Optional:
“Did You Know…?” fun fact
back of card:
Don’t forget to
add your name
and period at the
bottom.
Accomplishments
Subject
Stats
Date(s)
Louisiana
Purchase
Jefferson
made deal
with
Napoleon
of
France…
1803
Lewis and
Clark
Expedition
Successful
mapping,
esp. of
Columbia
…
1804-07
Mexican
Fought
1846-48
Did
You Know?
Americans
American
over land
War
SW afteracres from
bought
500inmillion
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France for only
dispute…
cents per acre!
(Your name and Period Here)
Do your best work!
You team will work together in class on
Wednesday.
Finish for homework
Due Thursday, ready for group
presentation.