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Keys to Success in Class:

1. Regular attendance- call office and request homework when absent.

2. Maintain agenda and complete your assignments on time.

3. Ask questions and request to see me privately when necessary. (before school or during lunch)

4. Ask for help at home if needed, especially for long term projects.

5. Maintain an organized binder. Keep all returned assignments until the end of the class or year.

6. Good citizenship and participation in the classroom.

7. Use the appropriate heading on all papers turned in.

8. The best tip to good learning is to FOCUS and TAKE TIME to do the work!

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This is what we will be learning this year...

History 8 Content Standards

8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

8.2 Students analyze the political principles underlying the U.S. Constitution and compare the enumerated and implied powers of the federal government.

8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.

8.4 Students analyze the aspirations and ideals of the people of the new nation.

8.5 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy in the early Republic.

8.6 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced, with emphasis on the Northeast.

8.7 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the South from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.

8.8 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the West from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.

8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

8.11 Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.

8.12 Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.