Welcome to Social Studies 8

Scroll down ⬇️ for our most recent work. Here are the Socials 8 Big Ideas:

• Contacts and conflicts between peoples stimulated significant cultural, social, political change.

• Human and environmental factors shape changes in population and living standards.

• Exploration, expansion, and colonization had varying consequences for different groups.

• Changing ideas about the world created tension between people wanting to adopt new ideas and those wanting to preserve established traditions.

If you missed class, or you've lost resources, you'll find some copies here!  It is here that you will be able to find brief reminders about homework, digital copies of many assignments and whole host of other course material. 

Oct 21st

History of Halloween 

Students wrote their quiz on Democracy. 

Then we read an article on the history of halloween and students annotated it with notes & comments as they read. 

HW: Finish reading and making hand-written notes on the article "History of Halloween." 

Oct 19th

Quiz on Democracy on Wednesday

Students participated in the Student Vote and continued taking notes on Canadian Democracy. 

Students are allowed to bring one page of handwritten notes for our Quiz on Canadian democracy on Wednesday Oct 21st. 

Oct 8th

Using our 6 Small Tasks assignments, students started crafting their arguments

Today, we began preparing for and writing up an in-class essay where students used their ranking of the 6 different events from the dark ages and justified which was most important (with evidence). We will continue crafting our arguments on Tuesday. Have a great long-weekend everyone!

Oct 6th

6 Small Tasks to demonstrate my understanding

Today, students independently completed 6 tasks step by step to come to a deeper awareness of the historical significance of these events. 

For homework, students have to complete all 6 tasks for the beginning of Thursday class. Feel free to come to PLT Thursday if you need additional assistance. 

Oct 2nd

Ranking Historical Significance from Primary & Secondary Sources

As a class, we continued working through the document package on ranking historically significant events from the middle ages. 

For Homework students have to: 

• Finish ranking worksheet. 

• Point Proof Explanation - Choose ONE of the 6 events we're looking at & make a point (an argument) about the event's significance. Then, choose one of these 6 events, I want you to record one point ranking the event’s significance. Then have one sentence (minimum) of proof straight from the primary or secondary source documents and have one point (minimum) to explain how your proof justifies your perspective.

September 29th 

Students did an in-class Literacy assessment. 

September 22nd

Historical Significance

Read the first 4 pages of historically significant events in your package. 

September 18th

Rome - a Synopsis

Today we finished watching "The Entire History of Rome" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV3r6BINlsM (we are only watching to 33 mins, not the full 44).

Then we did a collective brainstorm on what we know & have learned about Rome.
Then we watched Crash Course World History about Rome and completed a short quiz. 

Crash Course video is available here: 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oPf27gAup9U&t=93s 

For Homework, students were given some optional Rome crossword/wordsearch activities. Have a great weekend everyone! 

September 16th

Rome - a Brief Overview

Today we had a little "get to know you" donut party and continued learning more about Rome. Students completed some worksheets on Rome and then we started watching this video as an overview of Rome. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV3r6BINlsM (we are only watching to 33 mins, not the full 44).

Students will complete the last 10 minutes of the video and we will go over the worksheets on Friday. 

Then they will have a brief quiz on Rome (in which they are allowed to use hand-written notes). 

September 14th

Class Expectations & Intro to the Dark Ages

As a class we talked about kindness, patience, hard work, diligence & personal responsibility in learning (both for students and the teacher). 

Our class outlined the following basic principles for students & teachers: 

Teacher

Be helpful

Be positive

Be understanding

Be encouraging

Give students first hand experiences

Patient

Treat students equally

Teacher should teach!!!

Students

Pay attention

Stay respectful / be respectful

Be polite

Student shouldn’t use label on anyone

Be positive

Be patient

Be nice

Arrive on time

Help others

Do their work

Should copy down notes

Complete homework!!

Remember teachers rules

Be happy

Growth mindset

Be kind

We then dialogued through what we know about history and how we can understand the Dark ages. We had a very brief introduction to the middle ages but focused primarily on setting the stage for our class (what the Roman Empire was all about and how we can understand it's fall). 

We then watched this video as a brief window into life during the "Dark Ages" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g