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Exploring US History: 8th Grade Overview & Interactive Notebook

Welcome 8th-grade parents! Learn about our US History curriculum covering 7 units ranging from the nation's formation to civil rights and cold war. Get your child ready for high school with a focus on reading, writing, primary sources, evidence, and current events. Our interactive notebook is central to learning and will be graded throughout the trimesters. Stay engaged with class participation, tests, projects, and research papers. Stay updated on assignments via the planner and Edlio. Encourage your child and subscribe to Edlio for important updates. Contact us with any concerns at alebenzon@stmarkschool.com. Washington, D.C. trip details to be announced soon. Explore historical figures like Bartolome de las Casas and Christopher Columbus, understanding differing viewpoints in history. Embrace primary source analysis to grasp various perspectives on significant events.

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Exploring US History: 8th Grade Overview & Interactive Notebook

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  1. US History 8th grade Welcome Parents

  2. A bit about US History 7 units • Formation of the USA • The Constitution • The launching of the USA • The expanding nation • The Civil War • Industry • Civil Rights/Cold War

  3. Skills: Get ready for High School! • Reading and interacting with the text • Writing, writing, writing and citing • Primary sources • Using evidence • Current events • Research paper

  4. The Interactive Notebook • One stop place for all work • Bring to school everyday • Checked often at first • Graded 2x per trimester

  5. Text • Student centered • Common Core aligned • Text stays at school • Codes for online access sent home soon

  6. Grading Categories • Interactive Notebook • Class participation • Tests/quizzes • Projects— in class! • Writing • Completion • Last trimester: Research writing • Homework—not too much, 2x per week

  7. How you can help • Where is the homework assignment? • In the planner and on Edlio • Insist your child uses the planner • Subscribe to Edlio! • Contact me anytime to discuss concerns alebenzon@stmarkschool.com

  8. Washington, D.C. • There is still time to sign up! • There will be an information meeting • Date and time TBD • Prices go up September 30! • Please contact me with any questions

  9. A great time was had by all!

  10. An Explorer and a Priest Bartolome de las Casas: Catholic Priest He arrived as a colonist, made his fortune and later became a priest. He knew Columbus, admired him and even copied Columbus’ log for posterity. He wrote TheDevastation of the Indies: A Brief Account, first published in 1552. Christopher Columbus: Explorer Columbus’ diary describes his encounter with the Tiano people on October 12, 1492.

  11. Examining differing points of view: Why do points of view of the same event often differ? • As you read the two primary sources which detail the encounters between the Spanish and the indigenous people of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries, keep these questions in mind: • What is the main difference in the point of view of the Spanish in these two accounts? • What audience was Columbus writing for? • Does this influence his point of view? • Who was de Las Casas writing for? Does it influence his point of view? • Why do points of view of the same event often differ?

  12. Primary Source Analysis Columbus Las Casas “into this land of meek outcasts there came some Spaniards who immediately behaved like ravening wild beasts, wolves, tigers, or lions that had been starved for many days…. The common ways mainly employed by the Spaniards who call themselves Christian and who have gone there to extirpate those pitiful nations and wipe them off the earth is by unjustly waging cruel and bloody wars…. “ “I want the natives to develop a friendly attitude towards us…I therefore gave red caps to some and glass beads to others. …And they took great pleasure in this and became so friendly it was a marvel. They traded and gave everything they had with good will, but it seems to me that they have very little and are poor in everything. I told my men to take nothing from the people without giving something in exchange.”

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