Checking up on History

If you had to grade yourself on how well you are understanding social studies this year what grade would you give yourself? After writing your grade I want you to have three reasons why you would give yourself that grade based on how well you are getting social studies. How can you make it an A+?

Putting things back

together

We will look at what will

be on tomorrow and

Wednesday’s Benchmark

Short recap of each major

standard

Break into groups and show

off what you know

The Standards

SS8CG2 Legislative Branch

Around pages 80-81 of the

first interactive notebook

Main ideas are Congress in the

National government and

GGA in the State government

Make sure you know the chart

that should be on pages 78-79

describing senators and

representatives

Think about how a bill

becomes a law

SS8CG5 Local Government

Can be found around pages

96-99 in first interactive

notebook

Compare the difference

between county and city

governments

Look at how each step

interacts with others

There are people who serve

particular roles in a county

and look at the form of mayor

each group has

SS8CG6 Juvenile Justice

Pages 6-9 and 102-103 in

the first interactive

notebook

Breakdown the difference

between delinquent and

unruly behavior

Understand the rights of a

juvenile

Look at the steps of the

juvenile justice process

SS8E4 The Budget

Should be pages 100-101 in first interactive notebook

Look at special purpose governments like MARTA

Look at local and state taxes that are used for particular

reasons

Look at how the government balances what comes in and

what goes out

SS8H3 American Revolution

About pages 48-61 in the first interactive notebook

Think of the who’s who in the American Revolution

Look at what caused the Revolution (F & I war, taxes, and intolerable acts)

Loyalists VS. patriots (know some names)

Major battles of the War (creek and siege)

Look at the Declaration of Independence

SS8H5 Antebellum Georgia

Pages 6-21 in the current

interactive notebook

How Georgia had to rebuild

after the American

Revolution (UGA, Church,

and Louisville)

Look at how land is

distributed, land lottery and

Yazoo land fraud

Impact of cotton gin

Trail of Tears

SS8H6 Civil War and Reconstruction

Pages 30-48 in the current

interactive notebook

Understand the compromises of the

time

Look at the causes; Slavery vs States

Rights, Tariffs and Election of 1860

Understand the major battles in

Civil War from Fort Sumter to

Appomattox FAEGCAMA

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

Sharecropping vs Tenant

Black legislators and rise of KKK

Activating the Knowledge

I want you and two friends to think about one of the standards

You will have three minutes to fully present one of the

standards, find a creative way to talk about each standard

We will go around and figure out which standards are repeated