8th Grade

• Students at Hughes MS and Kerr MS have access to Lexia. Never logged in, here is a video to help. If you have questions, email your teacher.

• NewsELA- Current event articles that are age appropriate and relevant for all learners.

• Scholastic has free resources to keep kids engaged and learning at home, for students in grades 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th.

• No redInk- Online resources to practice writing and editing skills. Class code near sand 15

• Readtheory- Reading comprehension activities for students in all grades.

• Edmentum - Worksheet Bundles for all grade levels all core subjects

• https://openlibrary.org/search?q=young+adult&sort=new&m=edit&has_fulltext=true - free online books

• http://esl-bits.net/ - free online text with audio for a variety of categories. Audio can be sped up or slowed down by reader preference.

• Khan Academy Reading

• Khan Academy Grammar

Printable Resources:

• “A Nation Divided: North vs South”

• “President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address”

• Five Reasons Why Being Kind Makes You Feel Good - According to Science

• Excerpt from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

• Geometric transformations

• Graphing proportional relationships

• Slope

• Writing slope-intercept equations

• Solving equations

• Equations and word problems

• Formula chart (please use if needed)

Balanced and Unbalanced Forces/Newton's Three Laws of Motion (current curriculum learning topic)

• Read about balanced and unbalanced forces and complete the graphic organizer to process the information as you read.

• Math Connections: Complete the math assignment to practice calculating net force on an object.

• Guided practice assignment. These activity cards can be used to fill in the columns.

• Read about Newton’s Three Laws

• Video about Newton’s laws.

• Online Phet Interactive Simulation. These lab sheets can help you if you do the interactive simulation (Lab sheet 1, Lab sheet 2, Lab sheet 3)

• Vocabulary: “Cloze-ing in on science”

Online Resources for Enrichment

• Filament Games online simulations for multiple contents

• Discovery Education (requires log in)

• 3M Young Scientists Challenge

• Science Buddies STEM projects and other labs/activities

• Smithsonian Online

The Nation Breaks Apart

• Compromise of 1850

Read the article for the Compromise of 1850 above. Consider the following questions as you read the article

1. Who do you think got the better deal in the Compromise of 1850, the North or the South? Why?

2. How did the Compromise of 1850 amplify the threat of disunion?

• Slavery and the Missouri Compromise

View the video for the Slavery and Missouri Compromise and consider the following as you watch : How did westward expansion exacerbate tensions over the institution of slavery?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act and Party Realignment

Read the article for the Kansas Nebraska Act and consider the following as you read

1. Imagine you were a Northern abolitionist when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. How would you respond?

2. Explain how the two-party system shifted at the end of the 1850s.

3. How did the new party system differ geographically from the Second Party System?

• Sectional Conflict - Regional Differences

Watch the video and think about the following as you watch: How did regional differences between the North and South related to slavery lead to tensions in the years leading up to the Civil War?

• Dred Scott vs. Sanford , Dred Scott, the Lincoln Douglas Debates and the Election of 1860

The Nation Breaks Apart and the American Civil War

• Secession: Firing on Fort Sumter and the Start of the US Civil War

Watch the video linked above and consider the following question as you watch: Explain the events that led to the firing on Fort Sumter and the events that took place afterward

• Early Phases of the Civil War and Antietam

Watch the video linked above and consider the following as you watch: Describe the significance of the early events of the US Civil War including the Battle of Antietam

• The Battle of Gettysburg and The Gettysburg Address - Full Text Analysis

View the videos above and think about the following : Describe the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg and the impact of the Gettysburg Address

• The Emancipation Proclamation

Read the article linked above and consider the following question: Explain the long and short term impacts of the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Later Stages of the Civil War - Appomattox Court House and Lincoln's Assassination

View the video linked above and think about the following question as you watch: Explain the significance of Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln