2. ●The student will investigate family history and heritage; create a visual representation of family; trace physical movement of family members over time; and explore family connections to historical and geographical content in the 8 th grade curriculum.

3. ● origins ● migration ● immigration ● ancestors ● genealogy ● heritage ● dialect ● archives

5.  Learning about our ancestors, their lives and culture, helps us understand more about ourselves.

6.  The study of how persons and families descend from their ancestors.

8.  People  Organizations  Governments All keep records of important events.

9.  Birth Certificates  Hospital Records  Marriage Licenses  Military Records  Newspaper Clippings  Pictures  Obituaries  Birth Announcements  Family Bible  Letters, Diaries, Journals  Personal Announcements, Invitations, or Programs  Census Records  Church Records  Tombstones, Funeral Homes, or Cemetary Records  Immigration Records

10.  Gather information about yourself.

11.  TALK TO YOUR PARENT(S) OR GUARDIAN AND ASK THEM IF YOU CAN DO THIS ACTIVITY.  IF YOU DECIDE NOT TO, IT’S OKAY. YOU MAY RESEARCH A FAMOUS GEORGIANS HERITAGE INSTEAD…

13.  Shows a family’s ancestors.  Also called a lineage chart or pedigree chart.  Copy the information from your birth certificate onto your pedigree chart.  Make copies of important records and keep them with your family tree.

14.  Interview living relatives.  When interviewing, write your name, the name of the person being interviewed and the date and place where the interview is held.

15.  What is your full name?  When and where were you born?  When and where were married?  What are the names of your brothers and sisters?  What are your parents’ full names?  When and where were they married?  Ask about favorite things and memories too. **Remember to get copies of documents if you can.

16.  County Courthouse  Local Historical Society  Department of Vital Statistics  Internet  Immigration and Naturalization Service  US Census Records  National Archives  Social Security Administration

17. Family Tree

18. My Name: John Kevin Holland Date of Birth: 2-21-1963 Birth Place: Atlanta, Georgia Standards’ Connection: Mother’s Name: Betty Lucile Brandon Date of Birth: 1-10-33 Birth Place: Paragould, Arkansas Standards’ Connection: Father’s Name: Richard Dwight Holland Date of Birth: 10-4-1931 Birth Place: New York, New York Standards’ Connection: William B. Hartsfield 1 st Generation

19. Grandmother’s Name: Rachel Elisabeth Smith Date of Birth: 7-9-1912 Birth Place: Craighead County, Arkansas Standards’ Connection: Mother’s Name: Betty Lucile Brandon Date of Birth: 1-10-33 Birth Place: Paragould, Arkansas Standards’ Connection: Grandfather’s Name: Emmett Elbert Brandon Date of Birth: ? 1911 Birth Place: Paragould, Arkansas Standards’ Connection: 2 nd Generation

20. Father’s Name: Richard Dwight Holland Date of Birth: 10-4-1931 Birth Place: New York, New York Standards’ Connection: Mother’s Name: Dellah May Devoll Date of Birth: 5-18-1902 Birth Place: Paragould, Arkansas Standards’ Connection: Sharecropping Father’s Name: James Cull Holland Date of Birth: 9-16-1901 Birth Place: Lowes, Kentucky Standards’ Connection: Sharecropping 2 nd Generation

21. Grandmother’s Name: Rachel Elisabeth Smith Date of Birth: 7-9-1912 Birth Place: Craigshead County, Arkansas Standards’ Connection: Grandmother’s Mother’s Name: Date of Birth: Birth Place: Standards’ Connection: Grandmother’s Father’s Name: Date of Birth: Birth Place: Standards’ Connection: 3 rd Generation

22. Grandfather’s Name: Emmett Elbert Brandon Date of Birth: ? 1911 Birth Place: Paragould, Arkansas Standards’ Connection: Grandfather’s Mother’s Name: Date of Birth: Birth Place: Standards’ Connection: Grandfather’s Father’s Name: Date of Birth: Birth Place: Standards’ Connection: 3 rd Generation

23. Grandmother’s Name: Delluh May DeVoll Date of Birth: 5-18-1902 Birth Place: Paragould, Arkansas Standards’ Connection: Grandmother’s Mother’s Name: Ella Emma Dollins Date of Birth: 9-3-1873 Birth Place: ? Standards’ Connection: Grandmother’s Father’s Name: John Anderson DeVoll Date of Birth: 6-3-1867 Birth Place: ? Standards’ Connection: 3 rd Generation

24. Grandfather’s Name: James Cull Holland Date of Birth: 9-16-1901 Birth Place: Lowes, Kentucky Standards’ Connection: Grandfather’s Mother’s Name: Winnie Elizabeth Goin Date of Birth: 10-13-1884 Birth Place: Fancy Farm, Kentucky Standards’ Connection: Grandfather’s Father’s Name: James Buckhannan Holland Date of Birth: 10-24-1858 Birth Place: Barren Plain, Tennessee Standards’ Connection: 3 rd Generation

25. Analyze the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Georgia. ● Slavery ● States’ rights ● Missouri Compromise ● Compromise of 1850 ● Georgia Platform ● Kansas-Nebraska Act ● Dred Scott case ● Election of 1860 ● Secession in Georgia ● Alexander Stephens ● Antietam ● Emancipation Proclamation ● Gettysburg ● Chickamauga ● Union blockade ● Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign ● Sherman’s March to the Sea ● Andersonville ● Reconstruction ● Freedmen’s Bureau ● sharecropping and tenant farming ● 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments ● Henry McNeal Turner ● Ku Klux Klan Name of Family Member(s) alive during this period of history: Ella Emma Dollins John Anderson DeVoll James Buckhannan Holland Georgia Performance Standards’ Topics 8 th Grade Social Studies

26. Georgia Performance Standards’ Topics 8 th Grade Social Studies Evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia between 1877 and 1918. ● Bourbon Triumvirate ● Henry Grady ● International Cotton Exposition ● Tom Watson and the Populists ● Rebecca Latimer Felton ● 1906 Atlanta Riot ● Leo Frank Case ● County unit system ● Jim Crow laws ● Plessy v. Ferguson ● disenfranchisement ● Racial violence ● Booker T. Washington ● W. E. B. DuBois ● John and Lugenia Burns Hope ● Alonzo Herndon ● World War I Name of Family Member(s) alive during this period of history: Winnie Elizabeth Goin Dellah May DeVoll James Cull Holland

27. Georgia Performance Standards’ Topics 8 th Grade Social Studies Analyze the important events that occurred after World War I and their impact on Georgia. ● Boll weevil ● Drought ● Great Depression ● Eugene Talmadge ● New Deal (Civilian Conservation Corps, Agricultural Adjustment Act, rural electrification, and Social Security) Describe the impact of World War II on Georgia’s development economically, socially, and politically. ● World War II ● Lend-Lease ● Pearl Harbor ● Bell Aircraft ● Military bases ● Savannah and Brunswick shipyards ● Richard Russell ● Carl Vinson ● Holocaust ● President Roosevelt Name of Family Member(s) alive during this period of history: May DeVoll, Cull Holland, Rachel Smith, Emmett Brandon Name of Family Member(s) alive during this period of history: May DeVoll, Cull Holland, Rachel Smith, Emmett Brandon

28. Georgia Performance Standards’ Topics 8 th Grade Social Studies Evaluate the role of Georgia in the modern civil rights movement. ● Civil rights ● Herman Talmadge ● Benjamin Mays ● 1946 governor’s race ● End of the white primary ● Brown v. Board of Education ● Martin Luther King, Jr. ● 1956 state flag ● Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) ● Sibley Commission ● Hamilton Holmes/Charlayne Hunter ● Albany Movement ● March on Washington ● Civil Rights Act ● Maynard Jackson ● Lester Maddox ● Andrew Young Name of Family Member(s) alive during this period of history: Dellah May DeVoll James Cull Holland Richard Dwight Holland Betty Brandon

29. Georgia Performance Standards’ Topics 8 th Grade Social Studies Evaluate key post-World War II developments of Georgia from 1945 to 1970. ● Agriculture ● Development of Atlanta ● William B. Hartsfield ● Ivan Allen, Jr. ● Major league sports ● Ellis Arnall Explain the importance of significant social, economic, and political developments in Georgia since 1970. ● Jimmy Carter ● Two-party system ● 1996 Olympic Games ● Immigrant communities Name of Family Member(s) alive during this period of history: Richard Dwight Holland, Betty Brandon, Kevin Holland Name of Family Member(s) alive during this period of history: Richard Dwight Holland, Betty Brandon, Kevin Holland

37. ● Self Assessment ● Family Tree ● Oral Presentation ● Maps ● Curriculum Ties