8th Grade American History Curriculum Map

Year-long Plan
Content and Standards:
1st 9 Weeks: (38 Instructional Days)
Unit 1: Thinking Like A Historian (5 total
days)

Unit 2: Exploration, Colonization and

Settlement
(12 total days)
TEKS: 8.1a 8.2a 8.3a 8.10b 8.10a, c 8.11a
8.12a, b, d 8.15a 8.23a 8.1b, c 8.2b; 3b, c
8.11b, c; 20a 8.21a 8.23c, d 8.24a 8.25a, b
8.26a, b 8.26c 8.29a,b,c,i, j; 30a,b,c,d
Part 1-Mid-Semester Review (2 total days)
Unit 3: Freedom Week/U.S. Constitution

(4 total days)

TEKS: 8.15c 8.19a,b, f 8.25c 8.21b 8.26,b

2nd 9 Weeks: (40 Instructional Days)

Complete Unit 4 American Revolution
(10 total days)
TEKS: 8.1a ; 4a,c; 15c ; 9a,b,c ; 4b ; 10a ;
8.20a,b, c 8.21b,c 8.22b 8.23e 8.26a,b 8.26c
8.29a,b,c; .29f,g,h,9i 8.30a,b,c,d ; 31a,b
Unit 5: Establishing A New
Nation--Governing and Adopting a New
Constitution (22 total days)
TEKS: 8.1a,b,c 8.4e 8.5a 8.6a 8.15a 8.15c
8.15d 8.16a 8.16b 8.17a; 19a, 8.4d; 15b
8.18b,c 8.19c,d, e,f 8.20b; 21a,b,c 8.25c 8.26b
8.29a,b 8.29c,d 8.29e,f,g,h; 30a,b,c,d
Final Semester Review and Exam (3 total
days)

Unit 4: American Revolution (13 total

days)
TEKS: 8.1a 8.4a 8.4c 8.15c 8.19a 8.1b,c 8.4b
8.10a 8.20a,b 8.20c 8.21b,c 8.22b; 23; 8.26a
8.26c 8.29a,b,c,d 8.29f,g,h, i; 30a,b,c,d; 31a,b
Part 2-Mid-Semester Review (2 total days)
3rd 9 Weeks: (47 Instructional Days)
Unit 6: A New and Young Nation (13 total
days)

4th 9 Weeks: (47 Instructional Days)

Unit 10: Reform (4 total days)

TEKS: 8.1a 8.5a,c,e,b 8.10c 8.12a,b,d 8.23a

8.1b,c 8.5b,d 8.6c,e 8.11c 8.13a 8.14a,b
8.18b 8.20b 8.20c 8.22a,b 8.23e 8.26a,b,c
8.27a 8.27b,cd 8.28a,b 8.29a,b,c 8.29d,e
8.29h,i,j 8.30a,b,c, d

Unit 7: Common Peoples Democracy of

Andrew Jackson and Pre-Civil War (15

total days)
TEKS: 8.1a,b 8.6b 8.7c 8.12b,d 8.13b 8.17b
8.18a .5b,f,g 8.6c 8.7a,b,d 8.10a 8.12a 8.14a
8.18b,c 8.21a 8.22a,b 8.23c,d 8.24a
8.29a,b,c,d,ef,g, h, j 8.30a,b,c,d
Unit 8: Manifest Destiny (4 total days)
TEKS: 8.1a 8.6b 8.6a,c,d,e
Unit 9: Industrial Age: Economic Growth
(15 total days)
TEKS: 8.1a, 8.12d 8.13b 8.23a 8.27a,b 8.1b
8.11a 8.12a,c 8.13a 8.14a,b 8.23b,e 8.27c
8.27d 8.28a 8.28b 8.29a-j 8.30a,b,c,d 8.31a,b

TEKS: 8.1a 8.20c 8.22b 8.23a 8.23b 8.23c

8.23d 8.23e. 8.24a 8.24b 8.25b 8.26a 8.26b
8.26c
Unit 11: Civil War, Peace, and
Reconstruction
(19 total days)
TEKS: 8.1a 8.8b 8.9c 8.10b,c 8.11a 8.12b,d
8.16b 8.17b 8.1b,c 8.8a,c 8.9a,b,d 8.10a 8.11b

8.12a 8.21a 8.22a,b 8.26a,b 8.26c

8.29a,b,c,d,e,f h 8.30a, b,c,d 8.31a,b
STARR Preparation and Test (15 total
days)
Unit 12: Connections to World Geography
(9 total days)
TEKS: 8.10b,c 8.15a 8.10a 8.11a,b,c 8.14b
8.20c 8.21b,c 8.23b,c 8.29a 8.29b,d,e,h,j
8.30a 8.30b,c,d

Assessment Types:
On-going formative (warm-ups, exit slips, quizzes)
Homework assignments
Individual self-evaluations
Diagnostic tests
Standardized tests
Major cumulative projects
Group projects
Presentations

Unit Tests
Semester Exam
Essay Writings
Games
Skills:
Compare and contrast
Critical thinking and problem solving
Application of knowledge
Transfer of skills and knowledge
Creativity
Communication and collaboration
Analyze and evaluate
Debate
Media literacy
Research and cite

Investigate
Employ technologies for research and project development
Integrate visuals and texts to support knowledge or claims
Express in writing and verbally key concepts, similarities and differences, and opinions
Use text to support opinions
Illustrate
Identify
Establish goals and track progress
Activities/Instructional Strategies:
Cooperative learning
Accountable talk
Homework and practice
Hands-on learning
Problem-Based Learning
Extended Learning Activities
Socratic Seminar
Cues, questioning, activating prior knowledge
Project-based learning

Direct instruction
Flexible/strategic grouping
Modeling
Word Wall
Academic vocabulary and language
Real-world simulations
Debate
Music and songs
Peer-teaching/collaboration
Role plays
For additional reflection on Texas State standards, please visit:
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter113/ch113b.html
District resources also include: textbooks and online educational resources