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8.2.CC Extender

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

From Sparks to Surrender: The French and Indian War

Lesson

Grades: 4, 6, 8

Students use History in a Nutshell videos Part 1 and Part 2 to trace how tension in the Ohio Valley ignited a wider war, how leadership shifts turned the tide, and how the Treaty of Paris created...

Cherokee Reservation, Fort Gibson, Arkansas | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

Photo

Grades: 4 8

The Cherokee nation was gradually pushed out of the western Piedmont by the expanding European encroachment on their lands. The Cherokees in South Carolina had been hard hit by the attacks of Andrew...

Lemmon Hill Plantation, Part 5

Episode 5

Video

Grades: 6 7 8

Project Discovery visits a restored plantation from the 1790s, built in Winnsboro, in Fairfield County.

Lemmon Hill Plantation, Part 1

Episode 1

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Project Discovery visits a restored plantation from the 1790s, built in Winnsboro, in Fairfield County.

Lemmon Hill Plantation, Part 2

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 6 7 8

Project Discovery visits a restored plantation from the 1790s, built in Winnsboro, in Fairfield County.

Settling the Backcountry

Lesson

Grades: 8

South Carolina began as a proprietary colony, but in order to attract more settlers, the proprietors gave some of their political control to the landowners. This, however, did not mean that they...

Life and Culture in the New States | Conversations on SC History

Episode 10

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History. Life and culture in the New States is discussed in four lessons: Post Revolutionary War in SC South Carolina's...

Winds of Discontent | Conversations on S.C. History

Episode 7

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History. Dr. Edgar discusses the winds of discontent in SC in three lessons: Pre-Revolutionary Conflicts and Issues...

Family Across the Sea, Part 4 | SCETV Specials (1990)

Episode 4

Video

Grades: 6 7 8

Family Across the Sea, Part 4 Like the Black Seminoles who fled white civilization, blacks began to return to Africa in the 19th century. Historian Alpha Bah has studied the return of blacks to Sierra...

Family Across the Sea, Part 3 | SCETV Specials (1990)

Episode 3

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Family Across the Sea, Part 3 Anthropologist Joe Opala has studied the history of slavery from the African side of the ocean. He has tracked a remarkable series of connections that end in Charleston...

Family Across the Sea, Part 2 | SCETV Specials (1990)

Episode 2

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Family Across the Sea, Part 2 A young black scholar named Lorenzo Turner began to research Gullah culture and language. Folklorists and historians who had studied this culture before Turner and...

William Gilmore Simms | S.C. Hall of Fame

Video

Grades: 4 8

William Gilmore Simms was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a poet, novelist, and historian whose work was a major force in antebellum Southern literature. He was called one of America’s best...

Avery Research Center | Project Discovery Revisited

Video

Grades: 4 8

Charleston, South Carolina, is a city rich in African American culture. Sullivan’s Island, once an entry port from Africa for the slave trade, was considered the gateway to the United States. The...