Welcome to Mr. Sach's 8th Grade Social Studies Class Page!!!!

Current Topic - The Progressive Era

Week of 12/20 - On Monday we started a project, titled "Muckraker Magazine". This project has students working with a partner strickly online through a Google Doc. I assigned each pair a "muckraker" to research. They are to create a magazine with 8 different parts, to be presented to the class starting on Monday 1/10.

Week of 12/13 - This week we started an "Immigration & Urbanization" Webquest. On Friday we read a slection from Jacob Riis' book, "How The Other Half Lives" & answered questions on what we read.

Week of 12/6 - On Mon. we continued with the textbook section on "The Progressive Era", filling out our vocabulary worksheet as we went. 

Week of 11/29 - On Monday & Tues. we closed out the 2nd Industrial Revolution Age by answering the questions on textbook pg 645 #1-2, and 647 #11-17. This was handed in to be graded. On Wed. we began a new topic "The Progressive Era", by starting the topic in our textbook, pg 653, and defining vocab words from the topic.

Week of 11/22 - On Monday we watched a video on the Assembly Line, and how Henry Ford made interchangable parts. On Tuesday we had a day where students were given an opportunity in class to make up any incomplete work that they may have had turned in this Trimester, since the Trimester ends on Wed, 11/24.

Week of 11/15 - On Monday we completed textbook pages 621-629, and answered the "Lesson Check" questions # 1-6.

Week of 11/8 - On Monday we began talking about the 2nd Industrial Revolution, where world changing products like the light bulb, telephone, and airplane were developed. Tues - Thurs. were spent completing a Google Slides project where students researched those inventions plus others, and put together a number of Google Slides with great information about each invention.

Fri. 11/5 - We wrote "A Letter From The Plains", a fictional letter from the perspective of an immigrant to his family back home, who helped build the Trans. Railroad, then decided to stay in America as a farmer out West. Creativity and historical accuracy were key!

-Our 8th Grade SS Google Classroom page link is to the left under "Links". 

-All class notes will be posted both here, and on our class's Google Classroom page. 

-All future tests & quizzes will be posted here, and below in the event calander. You will have at least a week's notice before any test or quiz so there is plenty of time to study!

-I will note on this page about any WebQuests or Online Activitys that we do in class, but those will always be assigned on our Google Classroom page.

-If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please email me!

LETS HAVE A FUN & SUCCESSFUL YEAR!