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Standard I

I Inquiry-Based Literacy Standards

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Year: 2015

Fort Lamar: Ordnance- Historical Photograph Analysis

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Grades

  • 8
  • 11
Fort Lamar: Ordnance- Historical Photograph Analysis

In this lesson, students will analyze historical photographs of Fort Lamar and the Battle of Secessionville to understand the role of artillery during the Civil War. By comparing visuals with a...

MEDIA ARTS CAREERS:  Film Production

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  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
MEDIA ARTS CAREERS: Film Production

There are many jobs that go under the heading of FILMMAKER...learn about writing, planning, directing, editing, set decoration, costuming, filming "on location", and the other exciting challenges that...

Riding the Waves of Sound

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  • 8
Riding the Waves of Sound

This lesson focuses on investigating sound, both volume and pitch by engaging students through investigation activities. Along with these activities, direct instruction, and 1:1 activities are...

Prosperity for South Carolina

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  • 8
Prosperity for South Carolina

In this series of learning experiences, students will gather information from primary source documents and media in order to develop an understanding of how early South Carolinians used their natural...

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...

Loyalists and Patriots

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  • 8
Loyalists and Patriots

In these lessons, students will investigate the points of view of colonists who supported remaining loyal to Britain and those of colonists who supported breaking ties with Britain.

A New Nation and State

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  • 8
A New Nation and State

The Constitutional Convention was a gathering of state delegates to rewrite the Articles of Confederation and create the Constitution. Nine of the Thirteen colonies were needed to ratify the...

Cotton Becomes King - Cotton Gin

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  • 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.