Module 1: Finding Home: Refugees
Module Focus: Becoming a close reader and writing to learn
Book (s) read for the Module: Inside Out & Back Again
Description: Students consider the challenges of fictional and real refugees. They read the novel Inside Out & Back Again, analyzing critical incidents that reveal the dynamic nature of Ha, a 10-year-old Vietnamese girl whose family flees during the fall of Saigon. They also read complex informational texts to learn more about the history of war in Vietnam, the historical context of Ha’s family’s struggle, and the universal themes of refugees’ experiences of fleeing and finding home. Students consider how Ha’s experience represents the universal refugee experience of being turned “inside out” and then coming “back again.”
Vocabulary: All definitions can be found in the Reading Vocabulary Notebook
gist, inference, panic, tone, incidents, lunar, foretells, fate, witness, vow,
evidence, historical fiction, infer, determine, desperately, appeal,
quantities, clashes, hasty, poignant, affidavit, consulate, free verse
poetry, central idea, point of view, fiction, perspective, objective, wary,
spurned, tend, misread, “the time is ripe”, tumult, assertive, kindle,
“to no avail”, committed, contain, backed, symbol, symbolism, rations,
stranded, communism, totalitarianism, regret, universal, inexorable,
stringent, emigration, evacuees, persecuted, repatriation, refugees,
sanctuary
evidence, historical fiction, infer, determine, desperately, appeal,
quantities, clashes, hasty, poignant, affidavit, consulate, free verse
poetry, central idea, point of view, fiction, perspective, objective, wary,
spurned, tend, misread, “the time is ripe”, tumult, assertive, kindle,
“to no avail”, committed, contain, backed, symbol, symbolism, rations,
stranded, communism, totalitarianism, regret, universal, inexorable,
stringent, emigration, evacuees, persecuted, repatriation, refugees,
sanctuary
**Please make sure that you have done the required reading and any articles in your reading folder. Bring your reading folder and books for this Module with you for the Exam. _______________________________________________________
Module 2: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Comedy of Control
Module Focus: Working with Evidence (Drama)
Book(s) read for the Module: Midsummer’s Night Dream
Description: Students read and analyze Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, focusing primarily on the theme of control. Students examine why the characters seek control, how they try to control others, and the results of attempting to control others. They build background knowledge as they explore the appeal and authorship of Shakespeare and read much of the play aloud in a Drama Circle. Students analyze differences between a film version of the play and Shakespeare’s original script. They also study how Shakespeare drew upon Greek mythology as he crafted the play within the play.
Vocabulary: All definitions can be found in the Reading Vocabulary Notebook
universal appeal, images, advantages, disadvantages, lure, cite, claims,
supporting details, central claim, anonymous, perspective, conflicting
viewpoints, counter-claims, courtier, patron, rudimentary, evaluate,
surmise, incoherence, vulgar, reconciling, speculation, dialogue, vexation,
cunning, beseech, relent, comedy, tragedy
supporting details, central claim, anonymous, perspective, conflicting
viewpoints, counter-claims, courtier, patron, rudimentary, evaluate,
surmise, incoherence, vulgar, reconciling, speculation, dialogue, vexation,
cunning, beseech, relent, comedy, tragedy
**Please make sure that you have done the required reading and any articles in your reading folder. Bring your reading folder and books for this Module with you for the Exam.
Grade 8 Social Studies Study Guide
Module 1: Division and Reunion 1840-1877
Concepts to Know:
1. Causes and results of the Civil War
2. The many problems that the Nation faced rebuilding the South.
3. As the settlers moved west, the western landscape was transformed.
4. Conflict between Native Americans and the U.S. Government occurred over western land.
5. New communities and political groups were created by the settlers on the Great Plains.
Vocabulary, Events, and Important People: All definitions can be found in the Social Studies Class Notebook. Study all notes in the class notebook and use your textbook for further explanation.
Manifest Destiny, Sectionalism, Missouri Compromise 1820, Compromise
1850, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision
Industrialization, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Border States,
Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Gettysburg,
Emancipation Proclamation, Clara Barton, total war, Appomattox
Courthouse, Reconstruction, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th
Amendment, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Black Codes,
Freedman’s Bureau, impeachment, Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, Hiram
Revels, Ku Klux Klan, Redeemers, Grandfather Clause, segregation,
sharecropping, Father Isaac Hecker, Sisters of Charity, New York
Foundling Hospital, Great American Desert, Comstock Lode, boomtown,
cattle drive, Great Plains, Chisolm Trail, Pony Express, Transcontinental
Railroad, Promontory Point, Reservations, Buffalo Soldiers, Sitting Bull,
Battle of Little Big Horn, Long Walk, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Homestead
Act 1862, sodbusters, “bread basket of the world”, National Grange,
Interstate Commerce Act 1887, Populist Party, Oklahoma Land Rush
1850, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision
Industrialization, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Border States,
Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Gettysburg,
Emancipation Proclamation, Clara Barton, total war, Appomattox
Courthouse, Reconstruction, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th
Amendment, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Black Codes,
Freedman’s Bureau, impeachment, Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, Hiram
Revels, Ku Klux Klan, Redeemers, Grandfather Clause, segregation,
sharecropping, Father Isaac Hecker, Sisters of Charity, New York
Foundling Hospital, Great American Desert, Comstock Lode, boomtown,
cattle drive, Great Plains, Chisolm Trail, Pony Express, Transcontinental
Railroad, Promontory Point, Reservations, Buffalo Soldiers, Sitting Bull,
Battle of Little Big Horn, Long Walk, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Homestead
Act 1862, sodbusters, “bread basket of the world”, National Grange,
Interstate Commerce Act 1887, Populist Party, Oklahoma Land Rush
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Module 2: An Industrial Society 1876-1900
Concepts to Know:
1. The Second Industrial Revolution led to new sources of power and advances in transportation and communication.
2. The growth of big business in 1800 led to the creation of monopolies.
3. Changes in the workplace led to a rise in labor unions and workers’ strikes.
Vocabulary, Events, and Important People: All definitions can be found in the Social Studies Class Notebook. Study all notes in the class notebook and use your textbook for further explanation.
Bessemer Process, Edwin L. Drake, Thomas Alva Edison, patent, Charles
and Frank Duryea, Henry Ford, implement, acquire, Wilbur and Orville
Wright, corporations, Andrew Carnegie, vertical integration, John D.
Rockefeller, horizontal integration, trust, Leland Sanford, Social
Darwinism, monopoly, Sherman Antitrust Act, conspiracy, specialization,
strike, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, Industrial
Workers of the World, collective bargaining, Haymarket Riot, Homestead
Strike, Pullman Strike 1894, Old Immigration, New Immigration, steerage,
Ellis Island, benevolent societies, tenements, sweatshops, Nativists,
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882, mass transit, Elisha Otis, Jacob Riis,
settlement houses, Hull House, Florence Kelly, motive, Gilded Age,
political machines, Progressives, Muckrakers, Ida B. Tarbell, Lincoln
Steffens, Upton Sinclair, 17th Amendment, initiative, recall, referendum,
regulations, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, socialism, temperance, suffrage,18th
Amendment, Alice Paul, 19th Amendment, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B.
Anthony, W.F.B. DuBois, NAACP, Pure Food and Drug Act, conversation,
Progressive Presidents, Federal Trade Commission, Archbishop John
McClosken, Father John Drumgoole, John Cardinal Gibbons, Mother
Francis Cabrini, Pope Leo XIII
and Frank Duryea, Henry Ford, implement, acquire, Wilbur and Orville
Wright, corporations, Andrew Carnegie, vertical integration, John D.
Rockefeller, horizontal integration, trust, Leland Sanford, Social
Darwinism, monopoly, Sherman Antitrust Act, conspiracy, specialization,
strike, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, Industrial
Workers of the World, collective bargaining, Haymarket Riot, Homestead
Strike, Pullman Strike 1894, Old Immigration, New Immigration, steerage,
Ellis Island, benevolent societies, tenements, sweatshops, Nativists,
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882, mass transit, Elisha Otis, Jacob Riis,
settlement houses, Hull House, Florence Kelly, motive, Gilded Age,
political machines, Progressives, Muckrakers, Ida B. Tarbell, Lincoln
Steffens, Upton Sinclair, 17th Amendment, initiative, recall, referendum,
regulations, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, socialism, temperance, suffrage,18th
Amendment, Alice Paul, 19th Amendment, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B.
Anthony, W.F.B. DuBois, NAACP, Pure Food and Drug Act, conversation,
Progressive Presidents, Federal Trade Commission, Archbishop John
McClosken, Father John Drumgoole, John Cardinal Gibbons, Mother
Francis Cabrini, Pope Leo XIII
