Q4W1: March 20-24

SS.8.A.4.1 Examine the causes, course, and consequences of United States westward
expansion and its growing diplomatic assertiveness (Texas Annexation,
Manifest Destiny, Oregon Territory, Mexican American War/Mexican
Cession, California Gold Rush, Gadsden Purchase).

SS.8.A.4.3 Examine the experiences and perspectives of significant individuals and
groups during this era of American History.

Students 

• Explain the economic and social aspects of Antebellum southern society

Monday:

Bellringer

Vocab – Unit 7 Vocab

• Trade Union – a group of workers with the same skill
• Strike – stopping work as a form of protest
• Famine – an extreme shortage of food
• Nativist – a person opposed to immigration
• Literacy – the ability to read and write
• Yeoman- a farmer with a small farm
• Emancipation – Freeing slaves
• Abolitionist – someone who wants to end slavery
• Civil Disobedience – refusing to obey unjust laws
• Suffrage – the right to vote
• Reform – to make changes in something to make it better

Tuesday:

Southern Notes – Notes taken on Cornell Notes

South Lesson 1 Read Through

Wednesday:

South Lesson 2 Read Through

Gradventure Info – Gradventure Letter

Thursday/Friday – 

Southern Society Quiz