1. 8th GRADE US II Overview
WELCOME BACK!

2. HOW DOES 8TH GRADE CHANGE FROM 7TH GRADE?
There will be more reading then last year.
We will use excerpts from the online textbook “American YAWP” and certain chapters from Zinn’s A People’s History.
I will attempt to do more things on Google classroom (including test)
You will have more writing to do.
Test will be slightly harder.
We will do a lot more research.
My goal for you is to be fully prepared for advanced high school classes.
Remember 8th grade matters! Your first and second quarter grades could mean the difference between going to the high school of your choosing.

3. What are my expectations of you?
Be prepared for every class!
Last year we were not successful at this.
Be respectful to me and your peers.
Hand everything in on time.
I will attempt to put more assignments online so there is no excuse for losing paper.
Be ready to talk!
Try your best.
You must set the the example for the rest of the school!!!

4. What will we be learning?
Before We Start:
School year EQ: How does history shape our world?
We will also look at:
What is history?
How do we do history?
Chapter 1: Reconstruction
We will pick off were we left off after Lincoln’s assignation.

5. What will we be learning?
Chapter 2: Capital and Labor
The rise of the Labor movement in the United States.
Women fight for the right to vote.
Chapter 3: Conquering the West
The trains continental railroad.
The Indian Wars.

6. What will we be learning?
Chapter 4: Life in Industrial America
With America completing manifest destiny life for the average American changed. So for the better, so for worse.
Chapter 5: The American Empire.
America becomes an imperial power like the European nations.

7. What will we be learning?
Chapter 6: The Progressive Era
Suffrage for women.
Jim Crow leads to black flight.
Wilson becomes president.
Chapter 7: World War I

8. What will we be learning?
Chapter 8: The New Era
Republicans dominate after World War I.
Chapter 9: Great Depression

9. What will we be Learning
Chapter 10: World War II
Chapter 11: The Cold War

10. What will we be learning?
Chapter 12: Affluent Society
The 1950’s.
Eisenhower leads American into its most prosperous time.
Chapter 13: The Sixties
The Civil Rights movement.
The Vietnam war.

11. What will we be Learning
Chapter 14: The Unraveling
Nixon to Carter: America stumbles.
Chapter 15: The Rise of the Right
Reagan leads a revolution for the Republican Party.

12. What will we be Learning
Chapter 16: Recent History