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Standard C.LCS

C.LCS Language, Craft, and Structure

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Year: 2015

Content Type
Careers in Advertising

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  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
Careers in Advertising

Do you enjoy seeing a clever commercial on tv, on a billboard, or online? If you enjoy creativity using images and wordplay, you may be suited to a career in advertising. In this lesson, learn the...

Diving Deeper into Conflict

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  • 8
Diving Deeper into Conflict

This lesson falls at the beginning of a 3-week children's book writing unit. It is meant to get students thinking about all the different types of conflict that they can pull from later when they...

Settling the Backcountry

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  • 8
Settling the Backcountry

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...

Resisting Slavery - Oral Histories

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  • 8
Resisting Slavery - Oral Histories

In this series of lessons, students will examine primary source documents and oral histories of the Stono Rebellion. Students will then create and record their own “oral history” as a South Carolinian...

Cotton Becomes King - Cotton Gin

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Grades

  • 7
  • 8
Cotton Becomes King - Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin and in turn changed the path of America and its fortune. Read this excerpt from his obituary: Judge Johnson, of South Carolina, speaking of this invention, in 1807...

Crisis of 1850 (Secession)

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  • 8
Crisis of 1850 (Secession)

As sectionalism arose from racial/societal tension many events occurred that led to South Carolina’s secession from the Union. Students will create an interactive timeline of the Road to Civil War.

The Progressive Movement Continues?

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Grades

  • 8
The Progressive Movement Continues?

The Progressive Movement marked a period of great change in society and increased involvement of American government in the regulation of American society. Today, people still debate the role of...

Understanding Cause and Effect During the Tillman Era

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Grades

  • 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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Grades

  • 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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Grades

  • 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...

Skyping Through Colonial Settlements

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Grades

  • 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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Grades

  • 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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Grades

  • 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...