Class Agenda

1.  Mrs. Butler, our 8th Grade Counselor, will be visiting Social Studies classes today for a "meet and greet" and to share some important information about 8th grade.

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Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Do pg. 1...this will be a good review for the test.  Use concrete examples.
2.  TEST:  Reconstruction
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Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Do Q's on pg. 28.  How were Southern African-Americans negatively impacted after the Civil War?

2.  Sharecropping discussion:  Why is sharecropping sometime referred to as "the ghost of antebellum South?"

3.  Vocabulary Review (pgs 4-5).  Class Activity - in your groups identify and summarize the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.  Your summary must be 5 words or less!  Draw a picture to represent each amendment.  Divide a piece of notebook paper into thirds...using one section for each amendment.

HW - Study for Reconstruction test tomorrow!
(pgs. 4, 5, 29)
- Click for Vocab Flashcards

Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Review - What were Jim Crow Laws?
2.  Roots of Segregation (pg. 27 notes).  Have you ever broken a rule at home?  Do you have any rules at home that have "loopholes?"  Bridge discussion to Jim Crow/segregation laws in the South.
3.  Plessy v. Ferguson:  What role did this case play in segregation?

HW - Do pg. 20....&....Remember that we have a test Wednesday

Class Agenda

Note:  Mr. Law is absent today

1.  Bellringer:  As a pre-read exercise, complete the True/False questions on pg. 21.
2.  Group-Read-Activity:  Read article on the Jim Crow South (pg. 22-26).
3.  Go back to pg. 21 and check/correct your T/F responses...for each question, provide "Evidence" at the bottom of the page for why the response is true or false.  What statement in the reading helped you draw your T/F conclusion?
4.  Review answers as a class.
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Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  View video clip (reviewing the impeachment topic from yesterday) and answer the questions below:

• What power did President Johnson use to block legislation from Congress?  
• How did Congress react?

2.  KKK - "A Failed Revolution" view last 2 minutes of clip (above) - discuss and view powerpoint.  What was the role of the KKK in the "New South?"  What kind of impact did they have?  

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Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Which is best...A)  SU Football   B) SU Basketball  C)  SU Lax  D) None of the above
Introduce concept of bias - favoring one side or another.  Bridge concept to the political bias now, and post-Civil War...
2.  Contrast Moderate and Radical plans for Reconstruction (pg. 8...use pg. 6 to help complete pg. 8)
3.  Impeaching a President (pg. 13-17; Questions 1-3 at Top)
HW - finish pg. 18 (Questions 1-4 at bottom...use these charts to help)