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Standard C

C - Communication

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Year: 2015

Content Type
Understanding Cause and Effect During the Tillman Era

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  • 8
Understanding Cause and Effect During the Tillman Era

Every day we are all bombarded with events, that together, form our daily lives. These events affect our lives in small and large ways. Often, simultaneous events overlap, which compound the effect of...

The Roaring Arts

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  • 8
The Roaring Arts

Students will research and analyze changes across the nation and in South Carolina during the 1920’s. They will then in small groups prepare exhibits for a “Roaring Arts Museum”. The museum will...

Voting Rights Act of 1965

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  • 8
Voting Rights Act of 1965

Students have studied the Fifteenth Amendment, which was supposed to have granted African-American male citizens the right to vote, as well as the Nineteenth Amendment which expanded voting rights to...

The Solid South Shifts

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  • 8
The Solid South Shifts

Students will research and describe the events and historical figures that were integral to the Solid South’s shift from supporting the Democratic Party to supporting the Republican Party. Students...

Skyping Through Colonial Settlements

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  • 8
Skyping Through Colonial Settlements

The influences of European nations that settled North America as well as the geographic landscape of each region were two of the most impactful factors that led to how the original thirteen colonies...

Colonists Wanted!

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  • 8
Colonists Wanted!

As a result of the explorations of the Spanish, French, and English, there was much competition to settle permanent colonies in the New World. There were many hardships (such as disease, climate...

What Can I Say To Convince You?

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  • 8
What Can I Say To Convince You?

In this lesson students will explore FDR’s New Deal program. They will then put themselves in the position of being strategists for a presidential campaign today. In doing so they will need to...

Commemorating the "War to End All Wars"

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  • 8
Commemorating the "War to End All Wars"

In this unit students will review the events leading up to the United States’ involvement in World War I, analyze President Wilson’s speech to Congress asking them to vote favorably for war, explore...