Class: Social Studies

Grade: 8
Valley
Text: Glencoe CA seriesDiscovering Our Past The American Journey

Teacher:

Elmer

School: Pleasant

Curriculum Pacing Calendar 2016-2017

UnitCh.

School Calendar

Section & Standards

Assessments

Additional
Activities

August 2016

22

23

29

30

31

25

Geography

26

Getting to know
you.

Become a Historian

September

Section 1: WH7.11 & WH7.11.1

1

1-1

1-1

12

13

14

15

16

1-2

19

20

21

22

23

1-2

26

27

28

29

30

1review

Section 2: WH7.11.2 , WH7.11.3 , WH7.11.4

Section 3: WH7.11.4 , WH7.11.5 , WH7.11.6
Section 1: US8.1 , US8.1.4
Section 2: US8.1 , US8.1.1 , US8.1.4
Section 3: US8.1 , US8.1.4
Section 4 : US8.1 , US8.1.2 , US8.1.3
Declaration of Independence

Cause & Effect chart

Assigned reading: The
Witchcraft of Salem
Village by Shirley
Jackson
self-check quiz
Ch. 1 Test
Summary Writing
CA 8WA2.3 , 8RC2.4
self-check quiz
Ch. 2 Test
Persuasive Writing
CA HR4 , 8WA2.4

Parent
Conferences

October

2-3

10

11

12

13

14

2-3,
review

17

18

19

20

21

2-4

24

25

26

27

28

2-4,

Page 1 of 2

Section 1: US8.2, US8.2.2, US8.3, US8.3.1, US8.3.2,

US8.9, US8
Section 2: US8.2, US8.2.2, US8.2.3, US8.3, US8.3.5,
US8.9, US8.9.2.9.3
Section 3: US8.2, US8.2.1, US8.2.2, US8.2.3, US8.2.4,
US8.3
Section 1: US8.2, US8.2.2, US8.2.4, US8.2.6, US8.2.7,
US8.3, US8.3.3
Section 2: US8.2, US8.2.6
Section 3: US8.2, US8.2.5, US8.2.6, US8.3, US8.3.6,
US8.3.7

2016-2017

Assigned reading:
Guns for General
Washington by
Seymour Reit
self-check quiz
Ch. 3 test
constitution supplement

Drafting a class
constitution
self-check quiz
Ch.4 Test

Columbus

Class: Social Studies

Grade: 8
Valley
Text: Glencoe CA seriesDiscovering Our Past The American Journey

Teacher:

Elmer

Constitution: US8.2.6
2review

31

UnitCh.

School Calendar

School: Pleasant

Unit wrap-up
PowerPoint summary
of constitution
constitution supplement

Section & Standards

Assessments

Additional
Activities

November

10

11

14

15

16

17

18

21

22

23

25

28

29

30

3-5

3-6

Section 1: US8.3, US8.3.4, US8.4

Section 2: US8.3, US8.3.5, US8.4, US8.4.1, US8.4.2
Section 3: US8.3, US8.3.4, US8.4, US8.4.1
Section 1: US8.4, US8.4.1, US8.4.2, US8.4.3
Section 2: US8.4, US8.4.1
Section 3: US8.4, US8.4.1, US8.4.4
Gratitude/ Thanksgiving

Editorial demonstrating
bias
self-check quiz

Ch. 5 test
Assigned Reading:
SAC-A-JA-WEA
self-check quiz

Ch. 6 Test
Gratitude Letter/journal

Veterans
Trimester Ends
Thanksgiving

3-7

Section 1: US8.5, US8.5.1, US8.5.3

3-7

Section 2: US8.5, US8.5.1

December

1
5

3-7,
review

12

13

14

15

16

4-8

19

20

21

22

23

4-8

26

27

28

29

30

Section 3: US8.5, US8.5.1, US8.5.2

Section 1: US8.6, US8.6.1
Section 2: US8.6, US8.6.2
Geography Moving West

self-check quiz

Ch.7 Test
Unit wrap-up
Section quiz 8-1
Section quiz 8-2
Project
Christmas

January 2017

10

11

12

13

4-8

Section 3: US8.6, US8.6.1, US8.6.3, US8.6.4

Martin Luther King Lesson

Assigned reading:
Rebels Against Slavery
by McKissack

16

17

18

19

20

4-8

Section 4: US8.6, U8.6.5, US8.6.7

self-check quiz

Page 2 of 2

2016-2017

Martin Luther

Class: Social Studies

Grade: 8
Valley
Text: Glencoe CA seriesDiscovering Our Past The American Journey

23

24

30

31

25

26

27

4-9
4-10
UnitCh.

School Calendar

Teacher:

Elmer

School: Pleasant

Section 5: US8.6, US8.6.5, US8.6.6

Ch. 8 Test

Section 1: US8.7, US.8.7.1

Section 2: US8.7, US8.7.3, US8.7.4
Section 3: US8.7, US8.7.2, US8.9, US8.9.1
Section 1: US8.8, US8.8.1

self-check quiz

Ch. 9 Test

Parent
Conferences

Sections & Standards

Assessments

Additional
Activities

Section 2: US8.8, US8.8.2

Section 3: US8.8, US8.8.1

Assigned reading: The

Great American Gold
Rush by Rhonda
Blumburg
Persuasive essay

King

February

4-10

10

4-11

13

14

15

16

17

4-11

20

21

22

23

24

4review

27

28

Section 1: US8.8, US8.8.2

Section 2: US8.8, US8.8.4, US8.8.5, US8.8.6
Section 3: US8.8, US8.8.2, US8.8.5, US8.8.6
Section 4: US8.8, US8.8.2, US8.8.3
Unit review activities

self-check quiz

Ch. 11 Test
US presidents test

Section 1: US8.9, US8.9.1

Assigned Reading:
Commander and Chief:
Abraham Lincoln and the
Civil War by Albert Marrin

Section 2: US8.9, US8.9.4, US8.9.5, US8.10, US8.10.1,

US8.10.3
Section 3: US8.9, US8.9.1, US8.9.5
Section 4: US8.9, US8.9.5, US8.9.6, US8.10, US8.10.4
Section 5: US8.10, US8.10.3, US8.10.4, US8.10.5,
US8.10.6
Section1: US8.10, US8.10.2, US8.10.5
Section 2: US8.10, US8.10.5, US8.10.6, US8.10.7
Section 3: US8.10, US8.10.4, US8.10.5, US8.10.6
Section 4: US8.10, US8.10.5, US8.10.7
Section 5: US8.10, US8.10.4, US8.10.5, US8.10.6,
US8.10.7

Biographical Essay
CA 8WA2.1.a

5-12

Presidents

March

5-12

10

5-12

13

14

15

16

17

5-13

20

21

22

23

24

5-13

27

28

29

30

31

5-13

April

Page 3 of 2

2016-2017

self-check quiz

Ch. 12 Test
Compare & Contrast
North and South
Expository Writing pg613
CA 8WA2.4
self-check quiz

Ch.13 Test

Trimester Ends

Class: Social Studies

Grade: 8
Valley
Text: Glencoe CA seriesDiscovering Our Past The American Journey

Teacher:

Elmer

African American History

3

10

11

12

13

14

17

18

19

20

21

24

25

26

27

28

5-14

Assigned Reading: The

Help by Kathryn
Stockett
Spring Break

5-14
UnitCh.

School Calendar

School: Pleasant

Section 1: US8.11, US8.11.1, US8.11.3, US8.11.5

Section 2: US8.11, US8.11.1, US8.11.3, US8.11.5
Sections & Standards

SBAC testing
Assessments

Additional
Activities

May

5-14

10

11

12

5-14,
Review

15

16

17

22

23

24

29

30

31

18

25

19

26

6- 15

6-16
6-17

Section 3: US8.11, US8.11.1, US8.11.3, US8.11.4

Section 4: US8.11, US8.11.1, US8.11.2, US8.11.3, US8.11.5
Complete Ch. 14
Unit Wrap-Up Activities
Section 1: US8.12, US8.12.1, US8.12.3
Section 2: US8.11, US8.11.2, US8.12, US8.12.1
Section 3: US8.12, US8.12.2
Section 4: US8.12, US8.12.8
Section 1: US8.12, US8.12.1, US8.12.4, US8.12.9
Section 2: US8.12, US8.12.1, US8.12.9
Section 3: US8.12, US8.12.1, US8.12.4
Section 4: US8.12, US8.12.6
Section 1: US8.12, US8.12.7
Section 2: US8.12, US8.12.5

SBAC testing
& MSP
self-check quiz

Ch. 14 Test
self-check quiz

Ch. 15 Test
self-check quiz

Ch. 16 Test

Memorial Day

June
1

6-17
6-17

12

13

14

15

Page 4 of 2

Section 3: US8.12, US8.12.7

Section 4: US8.12, US8.12.5, US8.12.6
Section 5: US8.12, US8.12.7
Recognize peers because we are all unique!!

2016-2017

self-check quiz

Ch. 17 Test
8th grade
Graduation