25% Tests, Finals and long term projects 25% Homework 25% Class Participation/Classwork

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1 Course Description: Class Policies: 8 TH GRADE AMERICAN HISTORY CURRICULUM MAP Unit One: Development of Industrial America Unit Two: The Emergence of Modern America Unit Three: The Depression and World War II Unit Four: Postwar United States Unit Five: Contemporary United States It is the student s responsibility to obtain and complete work missed due to absences. Tests and quizzes missed will be made up on the first day back, barring an extended absence Extra help is available daily during lunch, prep or after school upon request Grading: Curriculum Mapping 25% Quizzes and short term projects 25% Tests, Finals and long term projects 25% Homework 25% Class Participation/Classwork Greenburgh North Castle UFSD has made every attempt over the recent years to enhance curriculum. It has been our initiative to offer our students a comprehensive curriculum that is parallel to the NYS core curriculum in each content area. In 2006/2007 curriculum teams were formed to create curriculum guides complete with course outlines, core curriculum, glossaries and course descriptions. A component that we are adding is curriculum mapping. This should provide teachers, administrators, parents and most importantly the student with a road map as to what to expect in each course. This map is a suggested guide to be used as a reference. All parties involved should be aware that the teachers are obligated by individual student needs to modify curriculum and instruction to best suit each student. Adding these curriculum maps will provide more structure to delivery of instruction and help to better prepare our students for exams, college and most importantly life.

2 Course Outline: I. Unit One: One week review of 7 th grade curriculum II. Unit Two: Development of Industrial America (6 weeks; 4 quizzes & 1 test or project) 1. Settling the Western Frontier 1862 to 1890 how pioneers traveled West and the transcontinental railroad the Homestead Act life on the frontier the westward movement affected the Indians the help Congress gave the Indians and the end of the frontier 2. Becoming an Industrial Giant 1870 to 1900 industrial expansion & changes in the economic patterns the main industrial giants (Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt) the steel industry, the petroleum industry big business new industries and inventions 3. A Nation of Cities 1882 to 1900 the growth of cities immigration; countries of origin, push and pull factors, general experiences of major groups NYC tenements & general conditions for immigrants working conditions in factories discrimination creation of Jim Crow laws Plessey vs. Ferguson early government 4. Chapter 21: A New Spirit of Reform 1872 to 1897 Gilded Age new kinds of political corruption & political bosses Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall the role of labor unions in reform & helped workers the Sherman Antitrust Act the populist movement III. Unit Three: The Emergence of Modern America

3 (7 weeks; 3 quizzes & 1 test or project) 1. America Becomes a World Power Imperialism in the US (ethnocentrism, increase in foreign trade, manifest destiny, expansion potential, perceived moral obligation to extend American way of life etc.) Spanish American War America expansion in the Pacific the Open Door Policy & the Boxer Rebellion President Theodore Roosevelt & Progressive movement the Muckrakers Jane Addams, women s suffrage, Ida Tarbell major accomplishments of Theodore Roosevelt s presidency (big business reform, environmental conservation laws, foreign policy in Latin America, Panama Canal major accomplishments of Taft s presidency (16 th Amendment, Dept. of labor) the election of Woodrow Wilson 2. World War I 1913 to 1920 major accomplishments of Wilson s presidency (Federal Reserve Act, 17 th Amendment) the factors & events in Europe that caused WWI formation of the Allied and Central powers, and the countries that formed each US Neutrality the events that led to the United States involvement in WWI (Zimmerman Telegraph, sinking of the Lusitania) Changes in home life in the US Wilson s 14 Points Paris Peace Conference Treaty of Versailles & problems; US Congress refusal to ratify Formation of countries after WWI 3. The Roaring 20 s 1920 to 1929 the economic, social, and political development of America in the period between WWI and WWII Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge automobile, radio women s rights cultural developments: jazz, Harlem Renaissance, flappers, speakeasies, Ku Klux Klan, communism, prohibition the 1929 stock market crash IV. Unit Four: The Depression and World War II (6 weeks; 4 quizzes & 2 tests or projects)

4 1. The Depression and the New Deal 1930 to 1939 the Great Depression; factors and impact the Dust bowl New Deal policy & some problems how the New Deal changed the governments role (WPA, Wagner Act) fantasy/escapism of popular culture (Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, etc) heroes of popular culture (Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Jesse Owens, Amelia Earhart, Shirley Temple) 2. World War II 1939 to 1945 origins of WWII (the rise of totalitarianism; expansionism and persecution; the rearming of Germany; Isolationism, the Failure of the League of Nations) the appeasement of Hitler German aggression attack on Poland the Allied and Axis powers; and the countries that form them the events that brought the US into the war (Japanese expansionism and why it attacked Pearl Harbor) the war in Europe the attack on Pearl Harbor and the war in the Pacific life in the United States during WW II; role of women, rationing, war bonds Japanese internment Atomic bombs holocaust/human rights violations; human losses of war changed geography of Europe including the division of Germany, Nuremburg Trials, United Nations V. Unit Five: Postwar United States (6 weeks; 4 quizzes & 2 tests or projects 1. A Time of Challenge and Change United States economy after WW II US leadership post WWII formation of the United Nations, the Fair Deal program, and the election of 1948 the Cold War the Marshall Plan NATO & the Warsaw Pact America in the 1950 s; McCarthyism, civil rights movement, family life, invention of the television, the space race 2. Support for Freedom 1960 to 1969 U.S. space exploration the election of 1960 communist expansion (Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam) John F. Kennedy, his presidency and assassination Lyndon Johnson

5 Vietnam war \the civil rights movement; the woman s movement, the concerns of Hispanics and young people, Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka the 1968 election Civil Rights Leaders - Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, etc the assassination of MLK Jr. VI. Unit 6: Contemporary United States (7 weeks; 4 quizzes & 2 tests or projects) 1. America in a Changing World 1970 to 1980 the end of the Vietnam relations with China and the Soviet Union Richard Nixon & his accomplishments the Watergate scandal Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter the Iran hostage crisis Afghanistan and the Soviet Union 2. The 1980 s 1980 to 1989 the Reagan administration& Reaganomics problems in the middle east & the Iran-Contra Scandal relationship with Soviet Union Apartheid the Bush administration & the economic deficit 3. The 1990 s 1990 to 1999 the end of the Soviet Union the first Persian Gulf War the Clinton administration economy and trade Serbia Describe the beginning of the new millennium and the election of The 21 st Century Begins 2001 to Present September 11, 2001 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; the United States involvement and the affects on the United States the presidential election of 2004 Describe life in the United States at the beginning of the 21 st century