PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 1 - Colonization
Days: 10
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning:
In this unit we will learn about the colonization of North America.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How did English colonization of America shape our founding
father's view of an independent America?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Early Colonies
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
5.1.9.A, 5.1.9.B, 5.1.9.E, 5.1.9.J, 7.3.9.A, 8.1.9.B
7.3.9.B, 8.1.9.C, 8.1.9.D, 8.1.9.A
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Why did Jamestown settlement succeed? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did the natural resources affect the
economy of colonial New England? (A)
Why did the Puritans settle in North America?
(A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did geography of the middle colonies
affect the regions economy? (A)
What were the ethnic groups that settled in the
middle colonies? (A)
What role did religion play in founding these
early colonies? (A)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Southern Colonies
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did geography of the southern colonies
affect the regions economy?
(A)
What were the factors that led to the growth of
slavery? (A)
Vocabulary:
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2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 1 - Colonization
Subject(s):
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
Days: 10
Grade(s):
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 2 - Colonial Resistence
Days: 6
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning:
In this unit we will learn about the growing conflict in the American Colonies.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How does conflict grow in the American Colonies?
Concept:
Concept:
The French and Indian War
Colonial Resistance
5.3.9.G
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What was the importance of the French and Indian War? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Why did the British government establish new policies after the French
and Indian war? (A)
How do the colonists respond to increased British control? (A)
How did the British government react to the actions of the colonists? (A)
What colonial actions resulted from the First Continental Congress? (A)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 3 -The American Revolution
Days: 10
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning:
Americans declare, fight and win a war for independence from Great Britain.
Unit Essential Question(s):
Why do Americans declare, fight and win a war for independence
from Great Britain?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
The Second Continental Congress
The Declaration of Independence
The Revolutionary War
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Why did the American colonies declare
independence? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What were significant battles in the
Revolutionary war?
How did the Declaration of Independence force
the colonists to choose sides during the war?
(ET)
(A)
8.3.9.A, 8.3.9.B, 5.4.9.A
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did the events of the battles of Lexington
and Concord jump start our American
Revolution? (ET)
What caused the Second Continental Congress
to meet? (A)
How did Lancaster, PA become our nation's
capital for one day?
(A)
What foreign nations provided help to aid the
colonies in the American Revolution? (A)
Vocabulary:
Loyalist, Tories, Militia, Minutemen, Rebel,
Mercenaries, Whigs, Tyrant, Traitor, Patriot
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Additional Information:
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Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Vocab Report for Topic:
Unit 3 -The American Revolution
Subject(s):
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
Days: 10
Grade(s):
Concept:
The Second Continental Congress
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 4 - The Articles of Confederation
Days: 7
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning:
In this unit we will learn about the Articles of Confederation and the plan for a new Constitution.
Unit Essential Question(s):
Why were the Articles of Confederation replaced with a new
Constitution for the United States?
Concept:
Concept:
The Articles Of Confederation
A New Plan of Government
5.1.9.C, 5.1.9.I, 5.2.9.D, 5.2.9.E
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did different interests and concerns separate the delegates at the
Constitutional Convention? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What were the provisions in the Virginia Plan? (A)
What were the provisions in the New Jersey Plan? (A)
What kind of government was created by the Articles of Confederation?
(A)
What problems did the government face under the Articles of
Confederation?
(ET)
What were the compromises reached during the Constitutional
Convention? (A)
How did leaders reshape the government?
(ET)
How was the Constitution ratified? (ET)
How did experience under British rule shape our new government and
state Constitutions? (ET)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Additional Information:
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 5 - The Constitution & Bill of Rights
Days: 10
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning:
In this unit we will learn about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How does the Constitution and Bill of Rights shape our government?
Concept:
Concept:
Our United States Constitution
The Bill Of Rights
5.1.9.E, 5.3.9.B, 5.3.9.E
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How was the Constitution effective in creating a democratic form of
government?
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution? (A)
What basic rights are protected in the Bill of Rights? (ET)
(ET)
What are the basic principles of government set forth in the Constitution?
(A)
What powers do the State governments and the National government
have? (ET)
What are the three branches of government and what do they do? (A)
How can the Constitution be changed? (A)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Additional Information:
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Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Vocab Report for Topic:
Unit 5 - The Constitution & Bill of Rights
Subject(s):
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
Days: 10
Grade(s):
Concept:
Our United States Constitution
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 6 - The New Republic On Trial
Days: 7
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning:
In this unit we will learn about our new nation under the Constitution.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How does our new nation develop?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Our new Government
Our National Bank
Early Challenges
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What were the contributions of President
Washington and the first United States
Congress? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did the economy develop under the
guidance of Alexander Hamilton? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What challenges on the frontiers did the new
government face? (A)
What setbacks did Hamilton have and how did
this affect the nation? (ET)
Why did Washington want to remain neutral in
foreign conflicts? (A)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What important events happened during the
presidency of John Adams? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
How did differing opinions lead to the first
political parties? (A)
John Adams as President
Additional Information:
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 7 - The Age Of Jefferson
Days: 10
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning:
In this unit we will learn how the United States changes between 1800-1820.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How does the United States change in the early 1800s?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
The Louisiana Purchase
Problems at Home & Abroad
War of 1812
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did Spain and France play a role in
Americans moving west? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did Chief Justice Marshall help shape the
Supreme Court?
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Why did the United States declare war against
Great Britain?
(A)
What were the goals of the Lewis and Clark,
and Pike expedition? (A)
(A)
What were the main success and failures of the
What conflicts were happening in the west? (A) war? (A)
What effect did European wars in the early
1800s have on the United States?
(A)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Additional Information:
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 8 -Growth and Expansion
Days: 10
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning:
In this unit we will be learning how the United States grows and changes.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How did the United States grow and change after the War of 1812?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Transportation West
Changes in manufacturing and
farming
Monroe's Presidency
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What was life like on the frontier in the early
1800s?
(A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did American manufacturing change
during the early 1800s?
(A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did the country change after the War of
1812?
(A)
What helped increase the movement of people
and goods going west?
(A)
How did farming change in the early 1800s?
(A)
How did Supreme Court decisions affect the
nation?
(A)
8.1.9.A
What was the Missouri Compromise and why
was it important? (A)
What was the Monroe Doctrine and why was it
important? (A)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Additional Information:
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Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Vocab Report for Topic:
Unit 8 -Growth and Expansion
Subject(s):
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
Days: 10
Grade(s):
Concept:
Transportation West
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 9- The Age Of Jackson
Days: 10
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning:
In this unit we will be learning about the Jacksonian Democracy, conflicts over land and the
National Bank.
Unit Essential Question(s):
What were the changes to America during the time
of Andrew Jackson?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Jacksonian Democracy
Conflicts over land
Jackson and the bank
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Why were native Americans forced to abandon
their land and move west?
(A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What events occurred when President Jackson
forced the National Bank to close? (A)
8.1.9.A
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What new ways of campaigning appeared
during the election of 1824 & 1828? (A)
What actions taken by Jackson increased his
power as President? (ET)
Vocabulary:
Why did some Native Americans resist
settlement? (A)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Additional Information:
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 10 - The Age Of Reform
Days: 10
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning: In this unit we will be learning about early reform movements in the United States.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How did Americans try to reform society in the early 1800's?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Social Reform
African Americans & Slavery
Women's movement
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What was the life of slaves and free blacks like
in the early 1800's? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
In what ways did the womans movement grow?
8.1.9.A
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What were some of the major reform
movements during the Second Great
Awakening?
(A)
(A)
How did the abolition movement fight to end
slavery? (A)
What achievements did women make during
this time? (A)
How did Northerners and Southerners react to
the abolitionists?
(ET)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Additional Information:
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 11- Age of Expansion
Days: 12
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning:
This unit will explore how the United States grows past the Mississippi River and the concept of
Manifest Destiny.
Unit Essential Question(s):
Why do Americans head west and how does this impact the United
States?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Heading West
Texas Revolution
Oregon Country
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Why did Americans migrate west?
(A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did Texas become a state?
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Why did Americans want to control the Oregon
County?
(A)
(A)
Why was the Republic of Texas an independent What was life like along the Oregon Trail?
nation for ten years?
(A)
(A)
How did the migration west impact the lives of
Native Americans?
(ET)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Mexican War & Manifest Destiny
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How does Manifest Destiny impact the
migration west?
(ET)
Why did war break out between the United
States and Mexico?
(A)
Vocabulary:
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Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 11- Age of Expansion
Subject(s):
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
Days: 12
Grade(s):
Additional Information:
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 12 - The Growing Crisis
Days: 10
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning:
This unit will explore the growing tensions between the North and the South and issues in the
West.
Unit Essential Question(s):
What are the growing issues between the North and South?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
California Gold Rush
Slavery Issues
Secession
8.1.9.A
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did the discovery of gold help California?
(A)
What was the Compromise of 1850 and why
was it important? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What political compromises were made because What was the importance of the election of
of slavery?
1860?
(A)
(A)
How did abolitionists resist the fugitive slave
laws?
(A)
What cultural differences divided the North and
the South? (A)
What was the importance of the attack at Fort
What was the importance of Harpers Ferry? (A) Sumter? (A)
How did Lincoln and Douglas play a role in teh
challenges to slavery?
(A)
Vocabulary:
Forty-Niner, Homestead
Vocabulary:
Abolistionist, Underground Railroad
Vocabulary:
Additional Information:
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Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Vocab Report for Topic:
Unit 12 - The Growing Crisis
Subject(s):
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
Days: 10
Grade(s):
Concept: California Gold Rush
Forty-Niner Homestead -
Concept: Slavery Issues
Abolistionist Underground Railroad
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 13 - The Civil War
Days: 15
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning: In this unit we will be leaning how the civil war starts, the major battles of the war, and how the
war ends.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How does the Civil War start, what are the major battles and what
are the results of the Civil War?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
The Two Sides
Early years of the War
Emancipation
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What were the resources of the North and
South? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What was learned at the battle of Bull Run?
(A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What was the effect of the Emancipation
Proclamation?
(A)
How are the leadership of Lincoln and Davis
different and why? (ET)
Why did President Lincoln support General
Grant in the West?
(A)
8.1.9.A
What role did the Navy play in this war?
(A)
What was the role of free blacks during the
Civil War? (A)
What did the 13th Amendment do and why was
it important?
(A)
How did the battles in the East affect both the
Confederacy and the Union? (ET)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 13 - The Civil War
Days: 15
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Concept:
Concept:
Life during the War
The Wars Final Stages
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did life change during the Civil War?
(A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Why were Vicksburg & Gettysburg a turning
point in the war for the North? (A)
Concept:
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What was life like for an ordinary soldier during Why did Lee surrender at Appomattox? (A)
the war?
How did the Civil War change the United
(A)
States?
What was the role of women during the war?
(ET)
(A)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Additional Information:
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PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
2009 Pequea Valley SD Curriculum
Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 14 - Reconstruction
Days: 10
Subject(s):
Grade(s):
Key Learning: Reconstruction was a time of great change after the Civil War.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How did American life change in the period
following the Civil War?
Concept:
Planning Reconstruction
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What were Lincoln's, Johnson's and Congress's
plan for Reconstruction? (A)
Concept:
Concept:
Congress in Control
Governing the South
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Why did Congress pass the 14th & 15th
Amendment?
(A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How were the Southern states changed during
Reconstruction?
(A)
Why was President Johnson impeached and
why is this important?
(A)
why does segregation start in the South?
(A)
Why did Johnson's plan anger Congress? (A)
How did some white southerners resist
Reconstruction and what did Congress do about
it? (A)
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Post Reconstruction
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did Democrats regain control of Southern
governments?
(A)
How did industry and farming change in the
south after Reconstruction?
(A)
How were blacks in the south deprived of rights
and segregated?
(A)
Vocabulary:
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Course: Social Studies 8
Curriculum:
Topic:
Unit 14 - Reconstruction
Subject(s):
PENNSYLVANIA
Date: February 22, 2013 ET
Days: 10
Grade(s):
Additional Information:
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