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Social Studies: Reconstruction/A Changing Society
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September
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8.1 Reconstruction: Reconstruction and the New South
- As the Civil War ended, Americans faced the problem of how to reunite the nation
- Disagreements over Reconstruction led to conflict in the government and in the South
- With the end of Reconstruction, African Americans in the South lost many of the rights they had gained
8.2 A Changing Society: The West Transformed
- Miners and railroad builders helped bring new settlers to the West and link it to the rest of the nation.
- As settlers poured into the West, Native Americans struggled to maintain their way of life.
- An extensive cattle industry developed in the West to provide meat for the nation.
- Many western settlers took up farming and adapted their lives to meet many new challenges.
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Reconstruction: Reconstruction and the New South
What were the short-term and long-term effects of the Civil War?
- How did the government try to solve key problems facing the nation after the Civil War?
- How did disagreements over Reconstruction lead to conflict in government and in the South?
- What were the effects of Reconstruction?
Changing Society: The West Transformed
How did the growth of big business affect the development of the West?
- How did mining and railroads draw people to the West?
- What were the consequences of conflict between the Native Americans and white settlers?
- What factors led to boom and bust in the cattle industry?
- How did farmers on the Plains struggle to make a living?
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SS.8.1 |
RECONSTRUCTION: Regional tensions following the Civil War complicated efforts to heal the nation and to redefine the status of African Americans. |
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SS.8.2 |
A CHANGING SOCIETY: Industrialization and immigration contributed to the urbanization of America. Problems resulting from these changes sparked the Progressive movement and increased calls for reform. |
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SS.I.1 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York. |
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SS.I.5 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation. |
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College, Career, and Civil Life (C3) Skills
Dimension 1: Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries
- D1.5.6-8. Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of views represented in the sources.
Dimension 2: Applying Discliplinary Concepts and Tools
- Civics D2.Civ.8.6-8. Analyze ideas and principles contained in the founding documents of the United States, and explain how they influence the social and political system.
- Civics D2. Civ.10.6-8. Explain the relevance of personal interests and perspectives, civic virtures, and democratic principles when people address issues and problems in government and civil society.
- Economics D2.Eco.6.6-8. Explain how changes in supply and deomand cause changes in prices and quantities of goods and services, labor, credit, and foreign currencies.
- Geography D2.Geo.2.6-8. Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions, and changes in their environmental characteristics.
- Geograpy D2. Geo7.6-8. Explain how changes in transporation and communication technology influence the spatial connections among human settlements and affect the diffusion of ideas and cultural practices.
- History D2.His.15.6-8. Evaluate the relative influence of various causes of events and developments in the past.
- History D2.His.16.6-8. Organize applicable evidence into a coherent argument about the past.
Dimension 3: Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence
- D3.4.6-8. Develop claims and counterclaims while pointing out the strenghts and limitations of both.
Dimension 4: Communicating Conclusions & Taking Informed Action
- D4.2.6-8. Construct explanations using reasoning, correct sequence, examples, and details with relevant information and data, while acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of the explanations.
National Council for the Social Studies: Essential Skills for Social Studies
- Use chapter and section headings, topic sentences, and summary sentences to select main ideas
- Detect cause and effect realtionships
- Use context clues to gain meaning
- Recognize and understand an increasing number of social studies terms
- Use various parts of a book (index, table of contents, etc.)
- Evaluate sources of information-print, visual, electronic
- Use annotations to prepare summaries
- Listen for information
- Follow directions
- Locate places on map and globe
- Interpret graphs
- Note cause and effect relationships
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8.1 Reconstruction: Reconstruction and the New South
- amnesty
- freedman
- black codes
- scalawag
- carpet bagger
- impeachment
- poll tax
- literacy test
- grandfather clause
- segregation
- sharecropper
8.2 A Changing Society: The West Transformed
- vigilante
- subsidy
- transcontinental railroad
- travois
- tepee
- reservation
- open range
- cattle drive
- vaquero
- cow town
- cattle kingdom
- homesteader
- sod
- sodbuster
- sooner
- grange
- exoduster
- farm cooperatives
- inflation
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- Do Nows
- Socrative entrance/exit tickets
- Polls
- Interative readings
- Graphic organizers
- Thinking maps
- Common Core Protocols
- Comprehension Checks
- Writing Assessments
- Map Quiz
- Section Quiz
- J. Dodge differentiated activities
- Chapter test
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- 25 Quick Formative Assessments - Judy Dodge
- America: History of our Nation - Prentice Hall
- A Short History of Reconstruction- Eric Foner
- New York State K-12 Social Studies Field Guide- Example Unit Reconstruction
- Common Standards for ELA & Literacy in History/Social Studies- Text Exemplar- Whitman, Walt. "O'Captain! My Captain!"
- Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Theories http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln74.html
- Reconstruction Junction Chester Comix
- "Cause of Attack: None Whatever" Primary Source Activity
- West Transformed Chapter Collage
- "I will fight no more." Chief Joseph
- "Gold Seekers Changed the Lives of Natives Forever" Don Baumgart
- Quizlet
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