5.8th+Grade+U.S.+Social+Studies

An interdisciplinary Unit with ELA **Sub-Questions:** What is discrimination? To what extent can laws change customs or how people think? When is violence justified? When does peaceful conflict resolution work? **Historical Themes/Key Content:** Civil disobedience, Amendments 14, 26, Harlem Renaissance, W.E.B. Dubois, B.T.Washington, Gandhi, Malcolm X, MLK Jr., SNCC, Union leaders for all colors, women leaders for peaceful conflict resolution Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, etc., **C.C.S.S.:** ELA Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of two civil rights leaders in their philosophy toward changing racial inequality. Write and Argumentative essay to say which leader's view is more effective in __Warriors Don't Cry.__ SS Info/Explanatory to Persuade on significance of the leader's biography
 * media type="youtube" key="GGMJkrBRGk0" height="219" width="294" align="left"1.Reconstruction and its Legacy in the Civil Rights Movement **
 * Women as Leaders of Reform **

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**Readings:** __Warriors DOn't Cry,__ Speeches of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi;  biographies of women reformers for peaceful change, including Sojourner Truth, Claudette Colvin, Helen Keller, etc.

**Sub-Questions:** What makes economies grow? What is the difference between socialism, communism, and capitalism? **Historical Themes/Key Content:** The Gilded Age, unions, immigration, industrialization Great Depression federal programs, stock market rise and crash, consumerism boom and bust, roaring 20s, red scare and communism, Hull House, Lillian Wald, Jane Adams, Mother Jones)) **C.C.S.S.:** Persuasive Writing Comparing Texts <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Readings:** "Walmart accused of exploiting overseas workers," Gospel of Wealth and Social Darwinism (Seminar) biographies of robber barons (Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller), Tarbull
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">2.Gap Between Rich and Poor: How far Should the Government go to Help? **

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Sub-Questions:** What is a Just War? What is nuclear energy vs. nuclear weapons? Who decides global policies? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Historical Themes/Key Content:** Cold War events, timeline of nuclear arms race and foreign policy reactions, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">3.Cold War Legacy and Nuclear Weapons Today **

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**C.C.S.S.:** Info/Explanatory with Persuasion on Best Policy to adopt RHIST1&2&6/R8.1,8.3 Text support for key ideas and connections, Point of View; RHIST3,8,9/R8.8,8.9 Critique and compare texts’ conflicting arguments; RHIST4 Vocabulary; RHIST7 Info. In graphs; WHIST8.1,8.2 Content Argument and Informative Explanation, RHIST7 Info. In graphs; W8.4;8.5 Clear writing with support <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Readings:** Roy's "End of Imagination"; Hersey's __Hiroshima,__ documents and speeches on arms race policy during Cold War and today; St. Augustin's Just War Theory (Seminar); "Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism Today" <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Supplemental primary sources [|Cold War and Nuclear Weapons Today] [|Decision to use the 1st atom bomb] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism]

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Historical Themes/Key Content Topics:** Watergate, Impeachment, reaganomics, environmentalism, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**C.C.S.S.:** Persuasive writing, reading speeches for inference and values, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Readings:** biographies of Lincoln, J.F.Kennedy, Gettysburg Address, J.F.K.'s "1st Inaugural Address," Obama's speech before the Democratic Convention, Reagan's "Evil Empire" speech, Article on the lessons of Watergate. Supplemental primary source documents [|Increased Pentagon Spending]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">4.Best and Worst Modern Presidents and First Ladies **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">Sub-Questions: **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Define the criteria and responsibilities of the executive branch. How have priorities changed? How important is make up of the political party of the majority of congress?

//<span style="background-color: #00ff79; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 200%;">*Exit Project research and work on-going for presentations in February. //

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 180%;">**5. Forensics Anthropology**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Sub-Questions:** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px;">What do forensics anthropologists do in their study of artifacts and biological evidence?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">You are a forensic anthropologist whose dog has found a body. Give an explanation for three steps you will take and two people you will consult. Use evidence from this unit. Use words and phrases that clarify relationships among steps and ideas and include information and vocabulary that a forensic anthropologist would use in an explanation. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**ELA Key Content Topics:** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px;">What methods do writers of informative text use to convey complex ideas and information? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**C.C.S.S.:** Informational/Explanatory Essay <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">RL8.1,8.2,8.3;RIB8.1,8.2,8.5,8.6;RI8.1,8.2,8.5,8.6,8.9;W8.1,8.4,8.9;SI8.1,8.3, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Readings:** What is Forensic Anthropology? by R.U. Steinberg, Dead Men Talking:Solving Crimes Through Science by David Kohn, Identifying with the Victim by Angela Libal, Giving Faces to the Lost by Angela Libal,