8th Grade Social Studies SS08 Jillian Lowe jalowe@mpsaz.org 480-472-8361 Tutoring Times: Posted every Monday
Course Overview 1st semester: American Revolution Government Economics Great Depression 2nd Semester World War II Cold War Civil Rights Movement Contemporary World
Materials: Yellow folder Pencils and pens Homework Not every night Finish projects Retakes All assessments may be retaken Additional tutoring required (supporting materials completed)
First Project: Patriot Cards Trading Cards on topics from the American Revolution 5 X 8 cards Picture on the front Information on the back
Photo Board Answers
USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, HI
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA
JFK Eternal Flame, Arlington National Cemetery, VA
Monticello, Charlottesville, VA
Washington Crossing the Delaware, painting by Emanuel Leutze
Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre
Celebrating the Golden Spike, Promontory Summit, UT
Devils Tower, WY
Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD
McPherson Farm, Gettysburg, PA
Robert E. Lee
Fidel Castro
Abraham Lincoln
Benjamin Franklin, Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Dred Scott, painting by Louis Schultze
John Brown
Field near Shanksville, PA
Fort Necessity, Farmington, PA
The Declaration of Independence, painting by John Trumbull
Lewis and Clark route
Jackie Robinson
Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Paul Revere, painting by John Singleton Copley
John Wilkes Booth
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, photograph by Joe Rosenthal
Frederick Douglass
Adolf Hitler
The Battle of Bunker Hill, painting by Howard Pyle
Crater Lake, OR
Mount Rushmore, Keystone, SD
John Wayne
Thomas Jefferson, painting by Rembrandt Peale
William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberty Bell, Philadelphia, PA
Mount Vernon, painting by Edward Savage