MS US History Curriculum Map 2018-2019

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Organizing Principle 12: The Civil War was caused by historic differences between the North and April: 1.5 weeks
South (economic, social, political, and sectional) that were emotionalized by the slavery issue. April 15 – April 26

Measurement Topics Curriculum Standards Benchmarks Content Language

Analyze charts, graphs, maps, photographs and timelines; analyze political SS.8.A.1.2 arsenal
cartoons; determine cause and effect. SS.8.A.1.7 Bleeding Kansas
SS.8.A.4.1 Civil War
View historic events through the eyes of those who were there as shown in Confederate States of America
their art, writings, music, and artifacts. Dred Scott decision
Fugitive Slave Act
Examine the causes, course, and consequences of United States westward martyr
expansion and its growing diplomatic assertiveness (Wilmot Proviso, popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act, Lincoln-Douglas Debates). secession
Some examples of success criteria may include: states’ rights

• Examine the economic, political, and social impact of the SS.8.A.4.2
westward expansion of the United States.
Road to Civil War
• Examples: sectionalism, slavery.
SS.8.A.4.8
Describe the debate surrounding the spread of slavery into western SS.8.A.5.1
territories and Florida. SS.8.A.5.2
Some examples of success criteria may include:

• Describe how the Kansas-Nebraska Act affected the spread of
slavery in the western territories.

• Examples: abolitionist movement, Missouri Compromise, Bleeding
Kansas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850.

Describe the influence of individuals on social and political developments
of this era in American History.

• Examples: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Roger B. Taney,
Dred Scott, John Brown, Jefferson Davis

Explain the causes, course, and consequence of the Civil War
(sectionalism, slavery, states' rights, balance of power in the Senate).
Some examples of success criteria may include:

• Describe the economic and social environment of the North and
South and explain how they contributed to the Civil War.

Analyze the role of slavery in the development of sectional conflict.
Some examples of success criteria may include:

• Identify and describe the key individuals and goals of the
abolitionist movement. (John Brown)

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• Examples: Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas- SS.8.A.5.4
Nebraska Act, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, SS.8.A.5.7
raid on Harper’s Ferry, Presidential Election of 1860, Southern
secession.

Identify the division (Confederate and Union States, Border states,
western territories) of the United States at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Some examples of success criteria may include:

• Identify the Border states.

• Identify whether a state was Confederate or Union.

• Prepare a labeled map of the western territories, Border,
Confederate, and Union states.

Examine key events and peoples in Florida history as each impact this era
of American history.
Some examples of success criteria may include:

• Describe the political motivations behind the passing of Florida’s
1861 Ordinance of Secession.

• Examples: slavery, influential planters, Florida’s secession and
Confederate membership

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Resources Road to Civil War

Textbook HMH United States History Module 17 pgs.538-565
Safari Montage
Causes of the Civil War (Schlesinger) 32:04 John Brown’s Holy War (PBS) 1:22:00
Websites
The Civil War: The Cause (PBS) 1:40:00 Civil War Journal: The Conflict Begins-John Brown’s War (A&E) 45:43
DBQ Binder/History Alive
The West: Death Runs Riot (PBS) 1:26:00 Civil War Journal: The Conflict Begins-Destiny at Fort Sumter(A&E) 45:45
Teacher Hints
America: The Story of Us: Division (A&E) 43:58
CPALMS Resources
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/
Assessment
Florida Literacy Standards Kahoot: Road to Civil War: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/ddc692e6-66c0-46a1-8d1d-97b53a1f38ae
Reading 7
(LAFS.68.RH.3.7) Jeopardy Labs: Chapter 16 - Towards Civil War https://jeopardylabs.com/play/chapter-16-jeopardy-upper-school-us-history

Writing 1 DBQ: What Caused the Civil War?
(LAFS.68.WH.1.1) Ordinary Americans Teacher’s Guide:

• Lesson 3, Sectional Crisis & Civil War
History Alive!

• United States: Civil War and Reconstruction (Section 1 Contrasting North and South)

• United States: Manifest Destiny in a Growing Nation (Section 5 A Case Study of Reform)

FOCUS: state’s rights; describing the debate surrounding the spread of slavery into western territories; explaining the causes and
effects of the Civil War; identifying the division of the United States at the outbreak of the Civil War

URL: http:www.cpalms.org/public/search/Search

SS.8.A.4.1- Lesson Plan SS.8.A.4.8- Lesson Plans SS.8.A.4.11- Lesson Plans

SS.8.A.5.1- Lesson Plans, Teaching Idea, tutorial SS.8.A.5.2- Lesson Plans SS.8.A.5.4- Lesson Plans

HMH Module Test:

Module 17 Assessment pgs. 564-565

Activities

Political Cartoon – Draw a political cartoon that illustrates Lincoln’s statement: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

DBQ: What Caused the Civil War?

Defend slavery from the Southern point of view

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Organizing Principle 13: The Civil War was a brutal conflict that resulted in tremendous loss of life April/May: 3 weeks
and property and led to major changes in the American way of life. April 29 – May 17th

Measurement Topics Curriculum Standards Benchmarks Content Language

The Civil War Analyze charts, graphs, maps, photographs and timelines; analyze political SS.8.A.1.2 border state
cartoons; determine cause and effect. SS.8.A.5.3 casualty
Explain major domestic and international economic, military, political, SS.8.A.5.4 contraband
and socio-cultural events of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. Copperheads
SS.8.A.5.5 cotton diplomacy
• Examples: sectionalism, states’ rights, slavery, Civil War, attempts draft
at foreign alliances, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg SS.8.A.5.6 Emancipation Proclamation
Address, suspension of habeas corpus, First and Second Inaugural SS.8.A.5.7 enlist
Addresses. entrench
flank
Identify the division (Confederate and Union States, Border states, greenback
western territories) of the United States at the outbreak of the Civil War. habeas corpus
Some examples of success criteria may include: ironclad
resistance
• Identify the Border states. strategy
total war
• Identify whether a state was Confederate or Union.

• Identify the reasons for the separation of West Virginia to form a
new state.

• Prepare a labeled map of the western territories, Border,
Confederate, and Union states.

Compare Union and Confederate strengths and weaknesses.
Some examples of success criteria may include:

• Discuss the advantage for the Confederacy of defending home soil
and better military leadership.

• Explain how the industrial strength gave the Union an initial
advantage.

• Examples: technology, resources, alliances, geography, and
military leaders—Lincoln, Davis, Grant, Lee, Jackson, and Sherman.

Compare significant Civil War battles and events and their effects on
civilian populations.

• Examples: Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Monitor v. Merrimack, Antietam,
Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Emancipation Proclamation, Sherman’s
March, and Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.

Examine key events and peoples in Florida history as each impacts this era
of American history.

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Some examples of success criteria may include: SS.8.G.6.2
• Describe the political motivations behind the passing of Florida’s SS.8.G.1.2
1861 Ordinance of Secession.
• Compare land use in Florida before the Civil War with land use
after the war.
• Examples: slavery, influential planters, Florida’s secession and
Confederate membership, women, children, pioneer environment,
Union occupation, Battle of Olustee and role of 54th
Massachusetts regiment, Battle at Natural Bridge.

Illustrate places and events in U.S. history through the use of narratives and
graphic representations.
Use appropriate geographic tools and terms to identify and describe
significant places and regions in American history.

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Resources The Civil War

Textbook HMH United States History Module 18 pgs.566-609
Safari Montage
The Civil War (Schlesinger) 32:20 The Civil War: The Better Angels of Our Nature (PBS) 1:17:00
Videos
Civil War Journal, Commanders: West Point Classmates; Civil War Enemies (A&E) The Civil War: Simply Murder (PBS) 1:02:00
Websites
46:44 The Civil War: Valley of the Shadow of Death (PBS) 1:09:00
DBQ Binder/History Alive
Civil War Journal, Commanders: Robert E. Lee (A&E) 46:06 The Civil War: Most Hallowed Ground (PBS) 1:12:00
Teacher Hints
CPALMS Resources Civil War Journal: The Conflict Begins—Battle of 1st Bull Run (A&E) 45:45 The Civil War: The Universe of Battle (PBS) 1:35:00
Assessment
Civil War Journal: The Conflict Begins—the 54th Massachusetts (A&E) 45:48 The Civil War: A Bloody Affair (PBS) 1:08:00
Florida Literacy Standards
Reading 1 (LAFS.68.RH.1.1) Civil War Journal, Commanders: Sherman and the March to the Sea(A&E) 46:37

History Channel: America & the Civil War:

Crash Course-US History: Battles https://youtu.be/25HHVDOaGeE?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s 7:24

Crash Course-US History: Civil War Part 1: https://youtu.be/rY9zHNOjGrs?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s 12:00

Crash Course-US History: Civil War Part 2: https://youtu.be/GzTrKccmj_I?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s 10:53

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Must create account (no fee involved)

American Civil War: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/poem-civil-war-death-only-private-killed-1861

African Americans & Emancipation: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/emancipation-proclamation

The Civil War website: http://www.civilwar.com/

National Park Service: The Civil War: https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/index.htm

Florida in the Civil War: https://www.floridamemory.com/onlineclassroom/floridacivilwar/

Jeopardy Labs: Chapter 17 - The Civil War https://jeopardylabs.com/play/the-civil-war-chapter-17-review

Mini-Q: North or South: Who Killed Reconstruction

Mini-Q: Why was the Battle of Gettysburg a Turning Point

Ordinary Americans Teacher’s Guide:

• Lesson 10, Sectional Crisis & Civil War

History Alive!

• United States: Civil War and Reconstruction

FOCUS: Jim Crow Laws; 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments; Comparing the Union and Confederate strengths and weaknesses;

Comparing significant Civil War battles and events and their effects on the civilian populations

URL: http:www.cpalms.org/public/search/Search

HMH Module Test: Module 18 Assessment pgs. 608-609

Activities

Close Reading- Gettysburg Address and analyze the address by breaking down the sections
Chart – create a chart comparing battles won by the North and the South
Mini DBQ- The Battle of Gettysburg: Why was it a Turning Point?

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Organizing Principal 14: The United States faced many challenges after the Civil War and May: 1 week
attempts to meet those challenges had varying levels of success. May 20th – May 24th
May 28th- May 31st – Review for Final Exam

Measurement Topics Curriculum Standards Benchmarks Academic Language
SS.8.A.1.2
Analyze charts, graphs, maps, photographs and timelines; analyze political SS.8.A.1.7 Reconstruction
cartoons; determine cause and effect. SS.8.A.4.3 amnesty
radical
View historic events through the eyes of those who were there as shown SS.8.A.5.7 black codes
in their art, writings, music, and artifacts. override
impeach
Examine the experiences and perspectives of significant individuals and scalawag
groups during this era of American History. corruption
integrate
• Examples: Andrew Johnson, Radical Republicans, Carpetbaggers sharecropping
poll tax
Reconstruction literacy test
grandfather clause
segregation
lynching
commission

Examine key events and peoples in Florida history as each impacts this
era of American history.
Some examples of success criteria may include:

• Describe the political motivations behind the passing of Florida’s

1861 Ordinance of Secession.

• Compare land use in Florida before the Civil War with land use

after the war.

• Examples: slavery, influential planters, Florida’s secession and

Confederate membership, women, children, pioneer
environment, Union occupation, Battle of Olustee and role of

54th Massachusetts regiment, Battle at Natural Bridge.

Explain and evaluate the policies, practices, and consequences of
Reconstruction (presidential and congressional reconstruction, Johnson's
impeachment, Civil Rights Act of 1866, the 13th, 14th, and 15th

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Amendments, opposition of Southern whites to Reconstruction, SS.8.A.5.8
accomplishments and failures of Radical Reconstruction, presidential
election of 1876, end of Reconstruction, rise of Jim Crow laws, rise of Ku
Klux Klan).

• Discuss how white opposition to reconstruction led to the rise of
the Ku Klux Klan.

• Identify how the 14th Amendment addressed the aftermath of
the Civil War.

• Discuss conflicting positions on Reconstruction.

• Analyze changes made to Constitution and their immediate and
long-term impact.

Identify the evolving forms of civic and political participation from the SS.8.C.1.4
colonial period through Reconstruction.

• Differentiate between the meanings of political and civic
participation.

• Describe significant acts of civic and political participation from
the colonial period through Reconstruction.

• Evaluate how the social and political participation struggles of
women and minorities in America affected civics and politics
from the colonial period through Reconstruction.

Evaluate how amendments to the Constitution have expanded voting SS.8.C.1.6
rights from our nation's early history to present day.

• Determine which specific constitutional amendments address

voting rights.

• Describe how specific constitutional amendments have enabled a

broad array of Americans, including women and minority groups,

to participate in the political process of the United States.

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Resources Reconstruction

Textbook United States History -Module 19 – pgs. 610 - 637
Safari Montage
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War-Revolution (PBS) 1:27:00
Videos Reconstruction: The Second Civil War-Retreat (PBS) 1:27:00
Websites Reconstruction & Segregation (Schlesinger) 32:00
America: The Story of Us: Civil War
DBQ Binder/History Alive Crash Course: John Green: Reconstruction and 1876.
https://youtu.be/nowsS7pMApI?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s
Teacher Hints Gilder Lehrman Institute: Must create account (no fee involved)
CPALMS Resources
Assessment • Reconstruction:
• Reconstruction website: http://www.history.com/topics/reconstruction
Reconstruction: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/742ca09a-77c1-4a99-a826-9f53d6ed902c
Documents Teach (Reconstruction) http://docsteach.org/activities/8773
Jeopardy Labs: Chapter 18 - The Reconstruction Era https://jeopardylabs.com/play/chapter-18-the-reconstruction-era
Mini-Q: North or South: Who Killed Reconstruction
Ordinary Americans Teacher’s Guide:
• Lesson 11, Reconstruction
History Alive!
• United States: Civil War and Reconstruction
FOCUS: Jim Crow Laws; 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments; Explaining and evaluating the policies, practices, and consequences of
Reconstruction

URL: http:www.cpalms.org/public/search/Search

HMH Model Test: Module 19 – pgs. 636- 637

Florida Literacy Standards Activities

Writing 1 (LAFS.68.WH.1.1) Mini-Q: North or South: Who Killed Reconstruction
Reading 1 (LAFS.68.RH.1.1) Plessy v. Ferguson – Read and analyze the majority and dissenting opinions
Reading 1 (LAFS.68.RH.1.1)