Welcome to Mr. Sach's 8th Grade Social Studies Class Page !

SS Assignment for Thurs. June 11th - I have posted two Debate Articles on ActivelyLearn.com, titled, "Are mobile devices helping or harming us?" & "Should phones be allowed in schools?". Both are about technology, specifically smartphones, and how they may be helping or hurting us in the classroom as well as in life in general. You can click on the links underneath this post, or click the following links:
https://read.activelylearn.com/#student/reader/1962367/notes
https://read.activelylearn.com/#student/reader/1962368/notes

I think you all will find these articles and these research studies very interesting.  Enjoy your last full day as 8th Graders!

SS Assignment for Wed. June 10th - Please be sure to read the article from yesterday on ActivelyLearn.com. We will not be having an 8th Grade SS & Religion Zoom meeting today, Wed. June 10th.

SS Assignment for Tuesday June 9th - I know today is 8th Grade pickup/dropoff day at HNOM, and I will be there to say hello! I found an article on ActivelyLearn.com about racism, discrimination, and the long history of racist policing, violence and inequality. You can find the article by clicking on the following link: https://read.activelylearn.com/#student/reader/1958145/notes

I think it is a really good read for you guys and girls in 8th Grade.

SS Assignment for Monday June 8th - The end of T3 is approaching quickly! Please use today, Monday June 8th, as a day to make up any SS work you may have fell behind on. Be sure to use this day wisely, and make up your work! Your grades are due soon! Once you have completed any late work, please share it with me or turn it in to me. If you have any questions please email me!

SS Assignment for Friday June 5th - Happy Friday & Happy World Environment Day! Today we are going to take a virtual tour of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. Please watch the 2 virtual tour videos by clicking on the following links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSalGjLeSqA&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qxNc8dbIkI&feature=youtu.be

 The first one takes you on a virtual tour of the memorial. The second one focuses on the wall with all of the names of the soldiers that gave their lives in the Vietnam War, and the mementos and memorial items that people leave at the wall to honor the memory of these fallen soldiers. Once you have watched, make a 2-3 sentence comment under the virtual tour post on our 8th Grade SS Google classroom "Stream" page about what you found most interesting about the virtual tours, or what you learned that you did not previously know. 

Be sure to check out our 8th Grade Religion Google classroom page where the assignment for today is to take a virtual field trip to the city of Jerusalem. This is an amazing virtual field trip to all of the important sites in the city. 

This is your last Friday in 8th Grade, make it a good one! Enjoy these two amazing virtual tours/virtual field trips.

SS Assignment for Thurs. June 4th - Please complete the assignment titled, "The Strain of Vietnam" on our 8th Grade SS page on ActivelyLearn.com. You can find the assignment and link posted on our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. 

In America's quest to fight the spread of communism all over the world after WW2, the next conflict took us to Vietnam. It was a very controversial war, with protests and anti-war demonstrations happening all over the USA. Many historians believe that America "lost" this war. What do you think?

Please complete this assignment by the end of the day today, Thurs. June 4th. 

SS Assignment for Wed. June 3rd - We will be having a 8th Grade SS & Religion Zoom meeting today, Wed. June 3rd at 12 Noon. Please do not be late! I will send everybody the meeting link email around 11:45-11:50am. See you soon!

SS Assignment for Mon. & Tues June 1st & 2nd - HNOM Virtual Field Day 2020! Have Fun!!!!

SS Assignment for Friday May 29th - Happy Friday! Today we will take a Virtual Field Trip to the President Eisenhower National Historic Site Virtual Museum Exhibit. You can find the virtual museum by clicking on the following link:
https://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/eise/index.html

With this multi-media exhibit from the National Park Service, we will learn more about our 34th President, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

When arriving at today’s link, read through the brief introduction then select from the following to view artifacts, see images, read concise informational texts and more: 

Military
Presidency
Mamie
Farm
Pop Culture

Under this section there is another section of features. It is here that you will find the links to the virtual tours of Eisenhower’s Gettysburg Home and cattle operation. Choose one and a new window will open to the tours. For the house tour, use the floor plan map to see the rooms. There are alternate views of the rooms also available on the pages and you can zoom in and out of the room to look more closely. The farm tour provides a labeled colorful drawing of its layout and a few photos of the farm.

Once you have completed the virtual tour, please comment underneath this post on our 8th Grade SS Google classrom page "Stream" with your thoughts, what you found interesting, and your favorite part of the virtual tour. Please make sure your comment is 2-3 sentences long. Your comments is how you receive credit for these virtual field trips, so please do not forget! I have enabled student comments, and will disable them again on Sunday night. 

SS Assignment for Thurs. May 28th - Please be sure to complete the assignment on "The Cuban Missile Crisis", from yesterday's Zoom meeting. This assignment is due by the end of the day today, Thurs. May 28th. Share it with me or turn it in to me through our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. You can also email it to me directly.

SS Assignment for Wed. May 27th - We will be having a n 8th Grade SS & Religion Zoom meeting today at 12 Noon. Please do not be late! I will be giving you the assignments for today during our meeting. I will send out the meeting link email at around 11:45-11:50am. See you then!

SS Assignment for Tuesday May 26th - Please read the Primary Source, President Eisenhower's Farewell Speech from 1961 which I have assigned on ActivelyLearn.com. As you read, answer the questions throughout. After Eisenhower, came one of the most famous Presidents of all time, John F. Kennedy. We will talk about JFK tomorrow during our Zoom meeting. The link to the primary source for today's assignment can be found here:
https://read.activelylearn.com/#student/reader/1923495/notes

SS Assignment for Friday May 22nd - Happy Friday! MDW is here! Today we will take a virtual tour of the Korean War Veterans Memorial. Here is the website link:
https://www.koreanwarvetsmemorial.org/home/

Once at the site, you can click on the links at the top of the page. "Wall of Remembrance", and "The Memorial" are the two that you need to focus on. The "Wall of Remembrance" has photos and a paragraph about the wall and its building. "The Memorial" has more photos and explanations of each part of the exhibit, located in Washington D.C.. 

Once you have explored the memorial, please comment under the Korean War Veterans Memorial Virtual Field Trip "Stream" post on our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. Write a sentence about what you found most interesting, or something you didn't know about the Korean War. I have enabled student comments, so don't forget to comment! I will disable student comments again on Monday night, May 25th. 

SS Assignment for Wed. May 20th - We will be having an 8th Grade SS & Religion Zoom Meeting today, Wed. May 20th at 12 Noon! Please do not be late! I will be giving you your SS & Religion assignments for today in our meeting. I will send the link email around 11:45-11:50am. See you soon!

SS Assignment for Tues. May 19th - Please be sure to complete the "Cold War Foreign Policy" assignment on Actively Learn.com. This assignment is due by the end of today, Tues. May 19th. We will be having an 8th Grade SS & Religion Zoom Meeting tomorrow, Wed. May 20th.

SS Assignment for Monday May 18th - Today we begin our next topic, which is "The Cold War". The Cold War is what the period of time after WW2 ended came to be called. It was a symbolic "war" of competing ideas, philosophies, and governments between the world's two superpowers, the USA and Russia/Soviet Union. 

I have been using a new learning tool and it is called actively learn.com. You will need to create an account and join our 8th Grade SS class. Please click on the link below:
https://read.activelylearn.com/ 

You will need to create an account, so sign up using your school email address. Once you have signed up, join our 8th grade SS class by using the code vlebpmu . Then click on "Assignments", and go to the assignment titled, "Cold War Foreign Poiicy". Read and answer the questions throughout the reading. There are many interesting learning tools throughout the reading so please check them out! Pictures, maps, political cartoons etc...

I have made this assignment due tomorrow, Tuesday May 19th.

SS Assignment for Friday May 15th - Happy Friday! Lets take another Virtual Field Trip! Today we are going to combine SS and Religion a bit, and take a trip to the Vatican! The websites below will take you on a tour of the Vatican, The Sistine Chapel and St. Peters Basilica in Italy.

Heres the website for the Vatican Museum Tour:  http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/tour-virtuali-elenco.html   (If you do not have Java, the Vatican Museum tour may not work on your computer, so just move on to St. Peters Basilica)

St. Peters Basilica:
http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/san_pietro/vr_tour/index-en.html

The Sistine Chapel:
http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/index_sistina_en.htm

The seven virtual tours regard the Sistine Chapel, the Pio Clementino Museum, the Chiaramonti Museum, the New Wing, Raphael’s Rooms, the Niccoline Chapel, and the Room of the Chiaroscuri. Once inside, you can explore each of these environments, moving in every direction and focusing on even the smallest detail of the individual works, all of which are reproduced in high definition.

Once you are done with our Virtual Field Trip to the Vatican, St. Peter's Basilica & The Sistine Chapel, please write a sentence or two comment about your thoughts on the tours underneath the virtual field trip post on the "Stream" of our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. I have enabled you to post comments, but only for a short time. So please do not forget to post your comments, or you will not receive credit. Student posts will be disabled again at 11:59pm on Sunday night, May 17th. Remember, you posting your comments is how you receive credit for these virtual field trips! I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

SS Assignment for Thurs. May 14th - Once you have completed yesterday's assignment from our Zoom meeting, please watch the videos I have posted on our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page under "Classwork". The first 3 are funny parody song remakes that have to do with WW2. The 4th video is about the Nuremberg Trials that we talked about yesterday. The 3 song videos are very funny and clever, and the Nuremberg video is very informative. I enjoyed them all and I hope you do too!

SS Assignment for Wed. May 13th - We will be having an 8th Grade SS & Religion Zoom meeting today, Wed May 13th at 12 Noon. Please do not be late! I will send everybody the meeting email around 11:45-11:50am. See you soon!

SS Assignment for Tuesday May 12th - Please make sure you have finished the readings from yesterday, and completed the "Manhattan Project & Hirsohima/Nagasaki" Question sheet.

SS Assignment for Monday May 11th - We are almost at the end of WW2. We have discussed D-Day, the invasion of Europe, and the Fall of Nazi Germany. After Germany fell, it allowed the Allies to focus their armed forces fully on the one opponent left fighting, Japan. The Japanese, while knowingly losing the war, were going to fight until the last man died on the battlefield. The only way, the Allied Commanders thought, to make them surrender was to invade Japan. So they put scientists to work to come up with another way to get them to surrender that would not cost the many lives of American soldiers that invading Japan would. Today, we will read about one of those ways named, "The Manhattan Project". The second reading selection is titled, "Hiroshima & Nagasaki", and explains how Japan was forced into surrender. Please read both of these 2 page readings, and answer the questions on the question sheet. I put both sets of questions on one question sheet. Once you have read and answered the questions, please share the question sheet with me or turn it in to me through our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. You can also email it to me directly. I have posted the readings in pdf format, and the question sheet in docx. If you need the question sheet in pdf, please email me. This will be due by the end of the day tomorrow, Tuesday May 12th. But keep in mind, we will have a new assignment tomorrow, so please plan out your time wisely and efficiently.

SS Assignment for Friday May 8th - Friday is Virtual Field Trip day! Lets take a journey today to the house where Anne Frank and other Jewish families hid from the Nazi's in the 1930s-1940s.  A sub-site of the larger AnneFrank.org website, presented by the Anne Frank House Museum, interactively wander around the Secret Annex where the Frank family, the van Pels, and Fritz Pfeffer hid from the Nazis for more than two years. Here is the website:
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex/

When you arrive at the website, you may wish to watch the brief introductory video that sets the scene for the circumstances leading to the decision to go into hiding. Then select the “Enter the 3D house” link in the top navigation bar or the “Go straight inside” image link to the left of the video to enter the annex. Be sure to have your sound turned on to hear explanations, narrative and commentaries of the various rooms. Use your mouse to navigate through the rooms. Use the floor plan icon to visit a particular room. Rooms you are able to visit include:

* The Ground Floor- Prinsengracht, Landing, Warehouse front, Warehouse back, Extension, Garden

* The Third Floor- Front attic, Room Peter van Pels, Room van Pels Family

* The Fourth Floor – Attic secret Annex

When you are finished exploring the hiding place, return the home page to learn more about the house and its inhabitants by selecting “The Outcome”, “About the house”, or “Who’s who?”. This fascinating interactive presentation filled with interesting audios, videos, texts, and images gives visitors a real feel that they have stepped into the world of Anne Frank and her housemates.

When finished exploring, please comment on the virtual field trip on the "Stream" virtual field trip post our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. Write a sentence or two comment about what you found interesting, or did not know about The Holocaust. I have turned student comments on and will leave them enabled until Sunday night. Please make sure you comment by then! Enjoy the trip!

SS Assignment for Thurs. May 7th - Please be sure to finish the "Kindertransport" Online Activity that I posted yesterday after our Zoom meeting. It is due by the end of today, Thurs. May 7th. Once complete, please either share it with me or turn it in to me through our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. You can email it to me directly as well.

PS- Some students have had trouble with the links working in the Google Chrome browser. If thats the case for you, then try using either Firefox or Safari, as they will work in either of those other two browsers.

SS Assignment for Wed. May 6th - We will be having an 8th Grade SS & Religion Zoom Meeting today, Wed. May 6th at 12 Noon. Be there! Please do not be late! I will be giving you your SS and Religion assignments for today at our meeting. See you then!

SS Assignment for Tues. May 5th - Happy Cinco de Mayo! Now we know how the Allies prepared for the D-Day invasion. Today, we will read about the actual invasion. Please read the 2 page reading titled, "The D-Day Landing". Once you have read the 2 pages, please answer the questions on the question sheet. I have posted both the readings and question sheet on our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. I will not make this due until tomorrow, Wed. May 6th. But keep in mind, that at our 8th Grade SS & Religion Zoom meeting on Wednesday at 12 Noon, we will be starting another assignment. So please plan out the use of your time wisely and efficiently. Once completed, please share it with me, turn it in to me, or email it to me directly.

SS Assignment for Monday May 4th - We are nearing the end of the war! Once the United States entered the war, we were helping England and Russia fight Germany and Italy in Europe, and we were fighting Japan in Asia/the Pacific. Today we are going to focus on a huge event that occurred in Europe, the D-Day invasion of France. France had surrendered to Nazi Germany in the early days of the war, and had been occupied ever since. American and British leaders knew the only way to defeat Germany was to invade France, and start taking countries back from the Nazi's, one by one. I have attached a two-paged reading sheet on our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page that explains some of the preparations that went into this massive invasion. Please read the two pages, and complete the question sheet, that I have also posted. The two pages of reading is in pdf form, and the question sheet is in docx. If you need the question sheet in pdf, please email me. Once complete, please share it with me or turn it in to me through our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. You can also email it to me directly. This will be due by the end of the day today, Monday May 4th.

SS Assignment for Friday May 1st - Happy May Day. Sorry about that last virtual field trip website. But lets still try. Go to the following website:
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/distance-learning/k-12-distance-learning/electronic-field-trips

Scroll about halfway down the page, and watch the electronic field trip video titled, "Remember Pearl  Harbor: How Students Like You Experienced The Day Of Infamy". 

The video is about 50 minutes long, but I think by the time you watch 20-30 minutes of it you should have seen enough to make your comment on what you found interesting. So once you are finished watching, please comment on the electronic field trip video post on the "Stream" of our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. 

SS Assignment for Wed. April 29th - We will be having an 8th Grade SS & Religion Zoom Meeting today at 12 Noon. Please do not forget! I will be giving you your SS and Religion assignments during our Zoom meeting today. See you at Noon!

SS Assignment for Tues. April 28th - Please complete the Pearl Harbor Stations Activity Question sheet that was assigned yesterday. Once complete, please share it with me or turn it in to me though out 8th Grade SS Google classroom page.

Ps- We will be having an 8th Grade SS & Religion Zoom Meeting tomorrow, Wed. April 29th at 12 Noon. 

SS Assignment for Monday April 27th - We have covered what was happening in Europe before and during World War 2. Now we are going to hop to the other side of the world, and cover what was happening in the Pacific. Mainly Japan, and the event that made the U.S. join the war, the attack on Pearl Harbor. Similar to the Trench Warfare "Stations Activity" that we did in class, we will now do a Pearl Harbor "Stations Activity". Please read the 6 Pearl Harbor "Stations" readings, and answer the stations questions on the question sheet I have posted on our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. We spent 2 class periods on the Trench Warfare "Stations Activity" in class, so I will give you until tomorrow, Tuesday April 28th, to complete this assignment. I was only able to post the readings in pdf form on our Google classroom page, but they can also be found in a Googledoc by clicking on the following link:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WlWIyOt8pv2Y8zTwpkffy_N5piZs6wll4x1u7VQMk5w/edit?usp=sharing

PS - If you did not comment on the virtual fieldtrip from Friday, I highly suggest that you write your comments in a Googledoc and send it to me ASAP for half credit.

SS Assignment for Friday April 24th - Lets take a Virtual Field Trip! The website below will take you on a virtual tour of the FDR Presidential Library and Museum. PLEASE READ THIS WHOLE POST SO YOU KNOW HOW TO NAVIGATE THE WEBSITE AND WHAT YOU MUST DO AFTER TO RECEIVE CREDIT!

heres the website link: http://fdrlibraryvirtualtour.org/index.asp 

This website not only takes you on a virtual tour through the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, but it also offers a great opportunity to learn more about the 32nd President of the United States, the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II.

When clicking on the link and arriving at the webpage, click the “Launch Now” button on the screen. There are multiple ways to explore the museum. You may use the “Back” and “Next” arrows to work through the slides, or you could expand the “Explore the Museum” button at the top right then choose your destination. You could also use the map in the bottom right corner to select a location. Additionally, you can also access the site map from the “Explore the Museum” button which provides a great way to reach the topic of interest quickly. Location galleries include: 

Museum Lobby
America, 1932: A Nation in Fear
The Promise of Change
Foundations of a Public Life
A New Deal
FDR’s “Act of Faith”
War! (upper level)
War! (lower level)
Oval Office Desk/FDR’s Death
First Lady of the World
Legacy
Behind the Scenes

Each gallery provides a 360° tour that you can use your mouse to navigate around and examine. Some galleries include close-ups of artifacts, documents, as well as additional resource information, audios, and teachable moments. The teachable moments include brief video segments. Each gallery includes informational text beneath the presentation.  

This website is an excellent resource for our study of history and a wonderful insight into the life and world of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Once you are done with our Virtual Field trip, please write a sentence or two comment on the Virtual Fieldtrip post on our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page about what you found most interesting about the virtual tour around the FDR Presidential Library and Museum. I have enabled you to post your comments on this post, but only for today. So please do not forget to post your comments, or you will not receive credit. Student comments on posts will be disabled again at 11:59pm tonight. Remember, your posting your comments about the Virtual Fieldtrip post, not making a new post or commenting on another assignment!

SS Assignment for Thurs. April 23rd - Please complete the European Dictators(Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini) HyperDoc that I have posted. Similar to Webquest, please go to the websites provided, and either view the videos or read the text on the webpages. Then answer the corresponding questions. I have posted in in docx format. If you need it in pdf, please email me. Once complete, please share with me or turn in to me through our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. This will be due by end of the day tomorrow, Friday April 24th.

Additionally, I have posted the "Rise of the Dictators" Slides that we viewed yesterday in our Zoom Meeting. We covered the Hitler slides, but there are also slides for Mussolini and Stalin. View at your leisure, as there is much interesting information and many powerful pictures on the slides.

SS Assignment for Wed. April 22nd - Please be ready for our SS & Religion Zoom Meeting that will be taking place today, Wed. April 22nd at 12 noon. Have the worksheet that you completed yesterday ready on your computer so we can go over it. Once we go over it, I will show you what we will be doing next. I will send you the meeting details around 1130am.

SS Assignment for Tues. April 21st - Please complete the reading and questions on the worksheet titled, "Steps to War". I know the worksheet says "Chapter 27", but just ignore that, WW2 is Chapter 24 in our textbook, and we will keep calling it Chapter 24. Please read the study guide sheet and complete the 5 questions on the sheet. The questions you have to answer are numbered 1-5. You do not have to fill in the timeline, or answer the questions posed at the beginning of each section of reading. The questions you must answered are numbered 1-5 and in bold type. Once you have completed the reading and answered the 5 questions in a separate Google doc, please share it with me or turn it in to me through out 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. I have only posted the document in pdf form. 

SS Assignment for Monday April 20th - On to Chapter 24 and the final stretch of the school year! Please define the new vocabulary words for Chapter 24, which focuses on World War 2. When defining, please keep in mind the overall theme of the chapter, in this case World War 2. The definitions needs to make sense in the context of World War 2. I have posted the vocabulary sheet in docx and pdf format. When you have completed the definitions, please share with me or turn it in to me through out 8th Grade SS Google classroom page.

SS Assignment for Wed. April 8th - Please complete the Chapter 23 Assessment. Please make sure you follow the directions and complete all 3 parts. Part 1 tells you to complete the questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES! If you choose not to, you will lose points. I have posted the assessment in docx form only. If you need it in pdf please email me and I will send it to you in pdf form. Once complete, share it with me or turn it in to me through out 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. This assignment will be due by Thursday April 9th at 11:59pm. Have a happy and healthy Holy Week & Spring Break!

SS Assignment for Monday April 6th - Please read and complete the 2 primary source worksheets that I have attached on our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page.. One is about FDR and his fireside chats that he was doing frequently during the Great Depression, and the other is a viewpoint comparison about FDR's New Deal laws that aimed to get the U.S. out of the Great Depression. Please create a separate Google Doc and record your answers for each worksheet on that Google Doc. Please make sure your answers are clearly labeled, and numbered. When complete, please share with me or turn it in to me. This assignment will be due on Tuesday April 7th, by 11:59pm.

*On Wed. April 8th, we are going to be having a short Chapter 23 assessment. This assessment will be similar to the one we took online for Chapter 22. Please prepare by knowing as much as possible about Chapter 23.*

SS Assignment for Friday April 3rd - Please finish Chapter 23 Section 4. Please read and answer "Reading Charts Skills Activity questions a & b on pg 792, and the "Check Your Progress" questions 1a, 1b, 2a, 4,5,6 on pg 793. When complete, please share with me or turn in to me before Sunday April 5th at 11:59pm.

SS Assignment for Thurs. April 2nd - For those of you who have finished yesterday's assignment, I have posted Chapter 23 Section 4. Please read and answer "Reading Charts Skills Activity questions a & b on pg 792, and the "Check Your Progress" questions 1a, 1b, 2a, 4,5,6 on pg 793. Record your answers on a Google Doc IN COMPLETE SENTENCES!. When you are finished, please share it with me or turn it in to me through our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. I have shared Chap 23 Section 4 in a docx and pdf file. This assignment will be due at or before Sunday April 5th at 11:59pm. 

SS Assignment for Wed. April 1st - For those of you who finished yesterdays assignment, I have posted our next assignment, titled "Voices of the Dust". Please read and complete the questions that follow. I have posted the document on our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page in docx and pdf format. When completed, please share it with me or turn it in to me through out 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. This assignment will be due Thurs. April 2nd at 11:59pm.

SS Assignment for Tues. March 31st - Go to the following website: https://allthatsinteresting.com/colorized-great-depression-pictures . If you click the website and it does not work, please try copying and pasting it. Once you are at the website, please either look through the gallery of Great Depression pictures at the top of the page, or watch the video which is about 3/4 of the way down the page. The video shows all the pictures as well. Please think about what was happening in these pictures. Once you have viewed all of the pictures, I want you to pick the 3 pictures that you felt were the most powerful & impactful. On a Google Doc, describe the picture, and tell me why you feel it was one of the most powerful and impactful. Once complete, please share it with me or turn it in to me. This will be due tomorrow, Wed. April 1st, 2020 at 11:59pm
The website link again: 
https://allthatsinteresting.com/colorized-great-depression-pictures

SS Assignment for Mon. March 30th - Please complete the Great Depression Webquest, if you have not done so already. If any of the websites in the Webquest do not work when you click on them, please try copying and pasting the web address into the address bar. Once complete, please share it with me or turn it in to me through our 8th Grade Google classroom page.

SS Assignment for Friday March 27th - Good Morning. I just wanted to thank all of you 8th graders who have been working hard everyday to keep up with all of your work, especially SS. I have noticed, however, that some of you have fallen behind. So for today, Friday March 27th, I want to give some of you a day (more like a weekend) to catch up. For those of you who are up to date and have completed all of the online work so far, I will post our next assignment, The Great Depression Webquest, on our 8th Grade SS Google classroom page. Please do not complete the Webquest until you have completed ALL of the other work from the last 2 weeks. The Great Depression Webquest will not be due until Monday March 30th at 11:59pm.

SS Assignment for Thurs. March 26th - Please read chapter 23 section 2 pages 776-781. I have uploaded the section pages into a document(docx file) to be viewed, and if that does not work for you, I have also uploaded each page in pdf format. When done reading, complete the "Fireside Chat Critical Thinking:Linking Past & Present" question on pg 777, complete the 2 questions in the "Reading Political Cartoons Skills Activity" on page 780, and do the Section 2 "Check Your Progress" questions # 1a, 2a&b, & 3 on pg 781. PLEASE BE SURE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN COMPLETE SENTENCES! Please create a Google Doc answer sheet and record ALL of your answers on the Google Doc. Please be sure to label the Doc name with the assignment, or write the assignment on the top of the Google Doc. When done, please turn in to me or share it with me through our 8th grade SS Google Classroom page.

SS Assignment for Wed. March 25th - Please complete the Great Depression Cause & Effect sheet. List 3 causes from the Fact Bank under the Cause graphic, and list 3 effects from the Fact Bank under the Effect graphic. If you cannot write under the graphics, please just make a cause list & an effect list, either on that doc or on a new Google doc, and list the correct 3 causes and effects on their respectful lists. Once done, please share it with me or turn it in to me through out 8th Grade SS Google classroom page.

SS Assignment for Tues. March 24th - Complete the Chapter 23 Vocabulary sheet. Chapter 23 is about the Great Depression. Please keep this in mind while you are looking up the vocab words on the internet. Please make sure your definitions are relevant to the current chapter. When you have completed the vocab sheet, please turn it in or share it with me on our 8th grade SS Google classroom page.

SS Assignment for Mon. March 23rd - Please read chapter 23 section 1 pages 770-775. I have uploaded the section pages into a documen(docx file) to be viewed, and if that does not work for you, I have also uploaded each page in pdf format. When done reading, complete the "Critical Thinking:Linking Past & Present" question on pg 773, and do the Section 1 "Check Your Progress" questions # 1-6 on pg 775. PLEASE BE SURE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN COMPLETE SENTENCES! Please create a Google Doc answer sheet and record ALL of your answers on the Google Doc. Please be sure to label the Doc name with the assignment, or write the assignment on the top of the Google Doc. When done, please turn in to me or share it with me through our 8th grade Google Classroom page.

SS Assignment for Fri. March 20th - In recognition of Women's History Month, please conduct an interview with a woman in your life. I have posted a question sheet with questions to be asked and answered during the interview. Please complete the question sheet and share it with me or turn it in through our 8th grade SS Googleclassroom page. Those of you who record a video of your interview and share it with me will receive extra credit. I will be posting a video of my interview with my mother!

SS Assignment for Thurs. March 19th - Please read the short bios for Eleanor Roosevelt & Sonia Sotomayor & complete the reading comprehension questions that follow each bio reading. Please create an answer sheet document in GoogleDocs and record your answers for each set of questions on that doc. Once complete, please share it with me or turn it in to me through our 8th grade Google classroom page.

SS Assignment for Wed. March 18th - Complete the Reading titled "What is Women's History Month", and answer the questions that follow the reading. Once complete, please share it with me or turn it in to me through our 8th grade SS Google classroom page.

SS Assignment for Tuesday March 17th - Complete the Chapter 22 Assessment. Please be sure to read the directions! Complete each question in your own words and in complete sentences. When done, turn in to me or share with me on our SS class page in Googleclassroom. Additionally, make sure you finish Chapter 22 in your SS workbook!

Current Topic: Chapter 23 - The Great Depression

-All class notes will be posted both here, and on our class's GoogleClassroom page. 

-All future tests & quizzes will be posted here, and below in the event calander. You will have at least a week's notice before any test or quiz so there is plenty of time to study!

-I will note on this page about any WebQuests or Online Activitys that we do in class, but those will always be assigned on our GoogleClassroom page.

-If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please email me!

LETS HAVE A FUN & SUCCESSFUL YEAR!