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Lesson Plans: 8th Grade Lessons
Classroom-tested American history lessons
The following multi-day and one day lesson plans were created using primary sources and the following textbook: United States History: Independence to 1914, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2006. Each standards-based lesson includes several guided reading strategies with worksheets for students and a scaffolded writing strategy.
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2010 - 2011: Grade 8 Yearlong Plan with Focus Questions and Teacher's Working Theses MS Word 2010 - 2011: Grade 8 Yearlong Plan that lists Academic Literacy Reading & Writing Skills *pdf*
California History Standards	Title of the Lesson	PDF version of the Lesson pdf	Word version of the lesson MS Word
8.1	The Thirteen Colonies One day lesson plan revised 08/12	Grade 8 Lesson Plan pdf	Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word Updated Resource MS Word
8.1	Geography and Colonial America Multi-day lesson plan revised 08/12		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.1	Boston Massacre Multi-day lesson plan		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word Summer 2010
8.1.1	Great Awakening 08/11		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.1.2	"Creating a Nation: The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution" NEW 09/12		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.2.1	The Mayflower Compact One day lesson plan revised 08/12		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.2.7, 8.3.1	State Constitutions Multi-day lesson plan	Grade 8 Lesson Plan pdf	Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.1, 8.1.4 8.2, 8.2.1, 8.2.2	The Articles of Confederation: Strengths and Weaknesses One day lesson plan		Not available
8.3	Hamilton vs. Jefferson Debate Multi-day lesson plan revised 05/13		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.3, 8.3.4	Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens One day lesson plan	Grade 8 Lesson Plan pdf	Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.3.4	Hamilton and Government Debt revised 09/12		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.4.1	Marbury v. Madison One day lesson plan	Grade 8 Lesson Plan pdf	Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.4 8.4.4	Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper Multi-day lesson plan		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word Summer 2010
8.6.1	Women’s Rights Multi-day lesson plan	Grade 8 Lesson Plan pdf	Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.7.2	The Triangle Trade 08/11		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.7 8.7.2	Antislavery Movements Multi-day lesson plan	Grade 8 Lesson Plan pdf	Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.7.2	Slavery: 02/10 Punishments and Resistance		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.8	The Gold Rush 08/11		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.8, 8.8.1	Jackson's Indian Policy Multi-day lesson plan	Grade 8 Lesson Plan pdf	Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.8.1	The Trail of Tears: Investigating President Jackson, Congress, and Native Americans Multi-day lesson plan		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.8, 8.8.6	Mexican-Americans Treaty of Guadalupe Multi-day lesson plan	Grade 8 Lesson Plan pdf	Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.9	John Brown revised 09/12		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.9, 8.9.1, 8.9.5 8.10	Civil War Multi-day lesson plan	Grade 8 Lesson Plan pdf	Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.9, 8.9.5	Missouri Compromise One day lesson plan revised 09/12		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.10 8.10.4	Lincoln: How a face tells the story of War Multi-day lesson plan		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word Summer 2010
8.11, 8.11.1 8.1.2, 8.1.3	Reconstruction Multi-day lesson plan	Grade 8 Lesson Plan pdf	Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.11	Economics of sharecropping 05/11 during Reconstruction		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.12.2	Indian Wars 08/11		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8.12.7	Immigration and Industrialization in the North revised 08/12		Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word
8	Art Inquiry Multi-day lesson plan	Grade 8 Lesson Plan pdf	Grade 8 Lesson Plan MS Word