DRAFT Georgia History Curriculum Map- 1st Nine Weeks

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Standards

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Big Idea

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Enduring Understandings

(The students will understand…) /

Essential Questions

(How and why) /

Skills and Knowledge

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Basis’s for Assessments

(Movies and Books)
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SS8G1

SS8G2

SS8E1

SS8E2

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(Geography of Georgia)

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Map Skills

Climate
Transportation
Environment
Regions
Free Trade / Tour of Georgia
Where Am I? – Maps
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SS8H1

SS8E1

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(PreH, Native Am. & Early Exploration)

/ Pottery
Myths
Explorer Timeline Notebooks
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SS8H2

SS8E1

SS8E2

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(Colonial Period)

/ Who Am I
Diary/Journal
Investigations
City Planning of Savannah

DRAFT Georgia History Curriculum Map– 2nd Nine Weeks

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Standards

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Big Idea

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Enduring Understandings

(The students will understand…) /

Essential Questions

(How and why) /

Skills and Knowledge

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Basis’s for Assessments

(Movies and Books)
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SS8H3

SS8H4

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(Amer. Rev & Early Statehood)

/ (Johnny Tremain)
(Paul Revere’s Ride)
Rewrite Preamble
Tax Exercise
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SS8H4

SS8CG1

SS8CG2

SS8CG3

SS8CG4

SS8CG5

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(Foundations of State and Nat’l Gov’t)

/ Video
Newspaper Ex.
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SS8H5

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(Westward Expansion

Indian Removal) / Analyze Source Doc. For YazooLand Fraud
(Ed. Of Little Tree)
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SS8H5

SS8H6

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(Antebellum GA)

/ Slave Diaries
Fashion Scrapbooks
Underground Railroad Escape

DRAFT Georgia History Curriculum Map– 3rd Nine Weeks

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Standards

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Big Idea

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Enduring Understandings

(The students will understand…) /

Essential Questions

(How and why) /

Skills and Knowledge

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Basis’s for Assessments

(Movies and Books)
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SS8H6

SS8CG2

/ Causes of the Civil War / ?? / Timeline
Cause and Effect Chart
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SS8H6

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Civil War

/ Battle Projects
(Soldier’s Heart)
(Across 5 Aprils)
(Killer Angels)
Posters
Regimental Flags
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SS8H6

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Reconstruction

/ Venn Diagrams
Sharecroppers/Tenant Farmers
Old/New South
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SS8H7

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1 Party System

Old & New South / Power Point
Capital – Growth of Atlanta
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SS8H7

/ Turn of Century
Segregation
Disenfranchisement / Black History Month Project
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SS8H7

SS8H8

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WWI

Roaring 20’s

/ Jazz Age
Inventions Project
(All Quiet on the Western Front)
(Cheaper by the Dozen)

DRAFT Georgia History Curriculum Map– 4th Nine Weeks

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Standards

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Big Idea

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Enduring Understandings

(The students will understand…) /

Essential Questions

(How and why) /

Skills and Knowledge

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Basis’s for Assessments

(Movies and Books)
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SS8H8

SS8H9

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Great Depression

New Deal
WWII / Historical Accounts
Rewriting History
Research Primary Docs
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SS8H10

SS8H11

SS8E3

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Post War Growth

Civil Rights / (Roll of Thunder)
(Grapes of Wrath)
(Anne Frank)
(Night)
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SS8H11

SS8H12

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Influential Georgians Cultural Achievements of Modern Georgians

/ Assume Identity
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SS8CG5

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Local Gov’t

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SS8CG1

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Political. Parties

Civic Responsibilities

/ Exploring County Website
Write to a local politician
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SS8E1

SS8E2

SS8E3

SS8E4

SS8E5

/ GA Econ
Current Events / JA
Chamber of Commerce

Georgia History – History Strand

SS8H1

Native American cultures and the impact of European exploration and settlement

a. Evolution of Native American cultures prior to European contact.

  1. Paleo
  2. Archaic
  3. Woodland
  4. Mississippian

b. Impact of European contact on Native American cultures

  1. Spanish missions along the barrier islands
  2. Explorations of Hernando DeSoto

c. Reasons for European exploration and settlement of North America
(emphasizing the interests of the following on the southeastern area)

  1. French
  2. Spanish
  3. British

SS8H2

Georgia’s Colonial Period

a. The importance of:

  1. James Oglethorpe
  2. Charter of 1732
  3. Reasons for settlement
  4. Charity
  5. Economics
  6. Defense
  7. Tomochichi
  8. Mary Musgrove
  9. City of Savannah

b. The Trustee Period

  1. The Salzburgers
  2. The Highland Scots
  3. Malcontents
  4. The Spanish Threat from Florida

c. Development of Georgia as a royal colony with regards to:

  1. Land ownership
  2. Slavery
  3. Government
  4. Impact of royal governors

SS8H3

The Role of Georgia in the American Revolution

a. The immediate and long-term causes of the American Revolution and their impact on Georgia

  1. French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
  2. Proclamation of 1763
  3. Stamp Act
  4. Intolerable Act
  5. Declaration of Independence

b. Significance of people and events in Georgia on the Revolutionary War

  1. Loyalists
  2. Patriots
  3. Elijah Clarke
  4. Austin Dabney
  5. Nancy Hart
  6. Button Gwinnett
  7. Lyman Hall
  8. George Walton
  9. Battle of Kettle Creek
  10. Siege of Savannah

SS8H4

The impact of events that led to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights

a. Strengths and weaknesses of:

  1. Georgia Constitution of 1777
  2. Articles of Confederation (weaknesses in the Articles required revision)

b. Role of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention of 1787

  1. Abraham Baldwin
  2. William Few
  3. Reasons Georgia ratified the Constitution

SS8H5

Georgia between 1789 and 1840

a. Establishment of:

  1. University of Georgia
  2. Louisville
  3. Spread of Baptist and Methodist churches

b. Land policies

  1. Headright system
  2. Land lotteries
  3. Yazoo land fraud

c. Technological developments

  1. Cotton gin
  2. Railroads

d. Events leading to the removal of the Creeks and Cherokees

  1. Alexander McGillivray
  2. William McIntosh
  3. Sequoyah
  4. John Ross
  5. Dahlonega Gold Rush
  6. Worcester v. Georgia
  7. Andrew Jackson
  8. John Marshall
  9. The Trail of Tears

SS8H6

Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Georgia

a. Importance of the key issues and events that led to the Civil War

  1. Slavery
  2. State’s rights
  3. Nullification
  4. Missouri Compromise
  5. Compromise of 1850
  6. Georgia Platform
  7. Kansas-Nebraska Act
  8. Dred Scott Decision
  9. Election of 1860
  10. Debate over secession in Georgia
  11. Role of Alexander Stephens

b. Importance of key events in the Civil War

  1. Antietam
  2. Emancipation Proclamation
  3. Gettysburg
  4. Chickamauga
  5. Union blockade of Georgia’s coast
  6. Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign
  7. Sherman’s March to the Sea
  8. Andersonville

c. Impact of Reconstruction on Georgia and other southern states

  1. Freedman’s Bureau
  2. Sharecropping and tenant farming
  3. Reconstruction plans
  4. 13th Amendment
  5. 14th Amendment
  6. 15th Amendment
  7. Henry McNeal Turner
  8. Black legislators
  9. Ku Klux Klan

SS8H7

Key political, social and economic changes in Georgia between 1877 and 1918

a. Impact during this period of:

  1. Bourbon Triumvirate
  2. Henry Grady
  3. International Cotton Exposition
  4. Tom Watson and the Populists
  5. Rebecca Latimer Felton
  6. 1906 Atlanta Riot
  7. Leo Frank case
  8. County unit system

b. How rights were denied to African-Americans through:

  1. Jim Crow laws
  2. Plessy v. Ferguson
  3. Disenfranchisement
  4. Racial violence

c. The roles of:

  1. Booker T. Washington
  2. W.E.B. DuBois
  3. John and Lugenia Burns Hope
  4. Alonzo Herndon

d. Reasons for World War I and Georgia’s contributions

SS8H8

Important events following World War I and their impact on Georgia

b. Impact of boll weevil and drought on Georgia

c. Economic factors that resulted in the Great Depression

d. Effect of the New Deal in terms of:

  1. Civilian Conservation Corps
  2. Agricultural Adjustment Act
  3. Rural electrification
  4. Social Security

SS8H9

Impact of World War II on Georgia’s development economically, socially, and politically

a. Impact of events leading up to American involvement in World War II

  1. Lend-lease
  2. Pearl Harbor

b. Importance of:

  1. Bell Aircraft
  2. Military bases
  3. Savannah and Brunswick shipyards
  4. Richard Russell
  5. Carl Vinson

c. Impact of the Holocaust on Georgians

d. President Roosevelt’s ties to Georgia and his impact on the state.

SS8H10

Developments in Georgia from 1945 - 1970

a. Impact of the transformation of agriculture on Georgia’s growth

b. Development of Atlanta and how it contributed to the growth of Georgia

  1. Mayor William B. Hartsfield
  2. Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr.
  3. Major league sports

c. Impact of Ellis Arnall

SS8H11

The role of Georgia in the modern Civil Rights movement

a. Developments during the 1940’s and 1950’s

  1. Herman Talmadge
  2. Benjamin Mays
  3. The 1946 governor’s race and the end of the white primary
  4. Brown v. Board of Education
  5. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  6. 1956 state flag

b. 1960’s and 1970’s

  1. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
  2. Sibley Commission
  3. Admission of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to the University of Georgia
  4. Albany Movement
  5. March on Washington
  6. Civil Rights Act
  7. Election of Maynard Jackson as mayor of Atlanta
  8. Lester Maddox

c. Impact of Andrew Young

SS8H12

Significant social, economic, and political developments since 1970

a. Consequences of the end of the county unit system and reapportionment

b. Jimmy Carter as state senator, governor, president and past president

c. Impact of the rise of the two-party system in Georgia

d. Effect of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta

e. Importance of new immigrant communities to the growth and economy of Georgia

Georgia History – Geographic Understanding

SS8G1

Location and physical features of Georgia

a. Locate in relation to:

  1. Region
  2. Nation
  3. Continent
  4. Hemispheres

b. Five Geographic Regions

  1. Blue Ridge Mountains
  2. Valley and Ridge
  3. Appalachian Plateau
  4. Piedmont
  5. Coastal Plain

c. Importance of key physical features on the development of Georgia

  1. Fall Line
  2. Okefenokee Swamp
  3. Appalachian Mountains
  4. Chattahoochee and SavannahRivers
  5. BarrierIslands
  6. d. Impact of climate on Georgia’s development

SS8G2

How the Interstate Highway System, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Georgia’s deepwater ports help drive Georgia’s economy.

a. How the three transportation systems interact to provide domestic and international goods to Georgia’s consumers

b. How the three transportation systems interact to provide producers and service providers in Georgia with national and international markets

c. How the three transportation systems provide jobs for Georgians

Georgia History – Government/Civic Understandings

SS8CG1

The role of citizens under Georgia’s constitution

a. Basic structure of the Georgia state constitution

b. Separation of powers and checks & balances

c. The rights and responsibilities of citizens

d. Voting requirements and elections in Georgia

e. The role of political parties in government

SS8CG2

The role of the legislative branch in Georgia state government

a. Members of the General Assembly

  1. Qualifications
  2. Term
  3. Election
  4. Duties

b. Organization of the General Assembly

  1. Leadership
  2. Committee system

c. The legislative process as a bill becomes a law

SS8CG3

The role of the executive branch in Georgia state government

a. Governor and lieutenant governor

  1. Qualifications
  2. Term
  3. Election
  4. Duties

b. Organization of the executive branch emphasizing policy areas of state programs

SS8CG4

The role of the judicial branch in Georgia state government

a. Explain:

  1. Structure of the court system
  2. How judges are selected

b. Explain the difference between criminal and civil law

c. History of the juvenile court

d. Comparison of the juvenile justice system to the adult justice system

  1. Different jurisdictions
  2. Terminology
  3. Steps in criminal justice

e. Rights of juveniles when taken into custody

f. Ways to:

  1. Avoid trouble
  2. Settle disputes peacefully

SS8CG5

The role of local governments in the state of Georgia

a. City and county governments in Georgia

  1. Origins
  2. Functions
  3. Purposes
  4. Differences

b. Compare and contrast forms of city government

  1. Weak mayor-council
  2. Strong mayor-council
  3. Council-manager

c. Functions of special-purpose governments

Georgia History – Economic Understandings

SS8E1

Examples of goods and services produced in Georgia during different historical periods

SS8E2

Benefits of free trade

a. How Georgians have engaged in trade during different historical time periods

b.Georgia’s role in world trade today

SS8E3

Influence of Georgia’s economic growth and development

a. Profit and how it is an incentive for entrepreneurs

b. Entrepreneurs take risks to develop new goods and services in starting a new business

c. Importance of entrepreneurship in Georgia

  1. Coca-Cola
  2. Delta Airlines
  3. Georgia-Pacific
  4. Home Depot

SS8E4

Revenue sources and services provided by state and local governments

a. Sources of state revenue

  1. Sales tax
  2. Federal grants
  3. Personal income taxes
  4. Property taxes

b. Distribution of state revenue to provide resources

c. How choices are made given the limited revenues of state and local governments

SS8E5

Personal money management choices in terms of:

  1. Income
  2. Spending
  3. Credit
  4. Savings
  5. Investing

Georgia History – Reading Across the Curriculum

SS8RC1

Students will enhance reading in all curriculum areas by:

a. Reading in all curriculum areas

  1. Read a minimum of 25 grade-level books per year from a variety of subject disciplines and participate in discussions related to curricular learning in all areas.
  2. Read both informational and fictional texts in a variety of genres and modes of discourse.
  3. Read technical texts related to various subject areas.

b. Discussing books

  1. Discuss messages and themes from books in all subject areas.
  2. Respond to a variety of texts in multiple modes of discourse.
  3. Relate messages and themes from one subject area to messages and themes in another area.
  4. Evaluate the merits of texts in every discipline.
  5. Examine author’s purpose in writing.
  6. Recognize the features of disciplinary text.

c. Building vocabulary knowledge

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of contextual vocabulary in various subjects
  2. Use content vocabulary in writing and speaking
  3. Explore understanding of new words found in subject area texts.

d. Establishing context

  1. Explore life experience related to subject area content.
  2. Discuss in both writing and speaking how certain words are subject area related.
  3. Determine strategies for finding content and contextual meaning for unknown words.