Purple 8 Year-at-a-Glance
August
Language
Arts
September
October
Year-long Essential Question:
How does one affect change?
Articles of the Week
Basic Writing Skills
Annotating
Summary Writing - SCRIBE, editing (grammar)
Reading Process
Author Analysis – Edgar Allan Poe,
Review Basic Story Elements
November
December
Essential Question:
How do our experiences help define who
we are, who we become?
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Assessment – Narrative Non-Fiction –
Topic: An Experience that Changed You
Novel Study – A Christmas Carol – class
oppression
January
February
March
Essential Question:
How can a deeper understanding of
self and others influence choices?
Research Paper
Civil Rights Movement – racial
oppression
Novel Study – The Pearl – class
oppression
Women’s Suffrage – gender
oppression
American Civil War Interdisciplinary
Unit
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April
May
Essential Questions:
How can choice(s) impact an outcome?
How does one use knowledge or power to impact those
around him?
Novel Study – The Giver or The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Final Assessment: Students will answer the Year-Long
Essential Question through:
Memory Book
Artistic Piece
Assessment - Debate
Science
Exponents
Scientific Notation
Algebraic Linear Equations
Science Methods/measurement/graphing
Heat and Temperature
Density
Gas Laws
1st quarter project: Individual Science Experiment 9/15
Social
Studies
United States History
Essential Question: What is history and is it true?
Math
Historical Thinking Skills: Sourcing, Close Reading,
Corroboration, and Contextualization
Review: Early America, European Exploration, Causes
of the American Revolution
Establishing America: Constitution, 3/5ths
Compromise, Great Compromise, Separation of
Powers, Checks and Balances, Federalism, Alien and
Sedition Act, American Slavery Begins
Graph of Linear Equations
Systems of Linear Equations
Elements
Periodic Table
Molecules/Compounds
Chemical/Physical Changes
Acids and Bases
2nd quarter project: Atom Presentation
and Tile 12/8
Functions
Pythagorean Theorem
Geometric Transformations
Waves
Sound
Light
Electricity and Magnetism
Radiation
3rd quarter project: Homemade
Instrument 4/2
United States History
Essential Question: How can a nation be
united and divided at the same time?
United States History
Essential Question: Is war ever
acceptable?
Louisiana Purchase
Taking the Land: War of 1812 and Native
American last stand, Indian Removal,
Tecumseh, Missouri Compromise, Market
Revolution, Canals, Railroads, Cotton,
Slavery, Westward
Expansion/Imperialism, MexicanAmerican War, Women’s Rights
Movement
March to War: rise of the
abolitionists, slave revolts, popular
sovereignty, expansion of slavery
and compromises, Bleeding Kansas
Civil War and Reconstruction: Key
Leadership, total war, black soldiers,
major battles, Emancipation
Proclamation, military technology
and medicine, the “end” of slavery.
Statistics/Probability
Motion
gravity, force, acceleration, 3wfriction
Newton’s Laws
Simple Machines
Energy
4th quarter project: Group Roller Coaster or Rube Goldberg
project 5/4-5/15
*Science Fair Extra Credit
*Showcase
Kansas History
Essential Question: What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Native Americans and Geography
Exodusters; Populism; Women’s Suffrage and Reform
Movements
Dust Bowl and Great Depression
Brown v. Board