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=SOCIAL STUDIES 8- AMERICAN HISTORY FROM EXPLORATION THROUGH RECONSTRUCTION (1492-1877)=

=Class Announcements: Updated 5/19- Civil War and Reconstruction Unit Concludes. Last Week of School=


 * Check out the NEW Harmon Social Studies 8 Course Website under construction on Google Sites. All of the Civil War Photography Projects will be linked HERE:**

Harmon SS8 Google Site

__**New Discussion Topic opens Monday: Find Your National Park...**__

__**Ongoing Discussion Topic: The Boy Scouts of America are now Accepting Girls! What do you think about** **that?**__ There are some great posts here, so this discussion will continue for another week.

This week we will finish our curriculum with a study of Reconstruction. **How did the United States work to put itself back together without slavery after the Civil War? Was Reconstruction more of a Success or Failure? What are the lessons of Reconstruction for today?**

Students will work through the 13 years of Reconstruction in class in the __History Alive__ text and complete their Steps Forward / Steps Back packet as their last assignment of the year. ABC-CLIO has a great overview article and several good videos about the nuts and bolts of Reconstruction. Follow this link. ABC-CLIO Reconstruction


 * Monday,** Student Council Elections will be held in Social Studies classes. This is also a Pride Day and an Assembly Schedule day.
 * Tuesday** is 8th Grade Locker Clean-out day in the morning before school.
 * Wednesday**, all students will turn their Chromebooks in to their Social Studies teachers.
 * Thursday** is the last day of classes.


 * For students in Mr. Frankmann's classes, Mr. Saucier graduated from the University of Akron this past Saturday and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Mr. Frankmann will share photos from his commissioning ceremony on Monday.**


 * 2nd Lieutenant Saucier Commissioning Ceremony Photos**

Daily assignments and activities are posted to Assignments in the menu to the right.

//SOCIAL STUDIES 8 WIKISPACE COURSE WEBSITE: This course wiki-space has been built to be your gateway to all things Social Studies in support of what we do in class and beyond. During our opening unit you'll join the site and be given a guided tour before being sent off on your own explorations. You should visit this site regularly as part of your academic routine and we hope you will help us build this site further through your participation in discussions and by suggesting websites, videos, documents and more to add to our collection of online resources. This site complements the assignments and activities that will be shared with you through your Social Studies 8 Google Classroom.//

//Students will be assigned articles to read and videos to view in their online textbook: the ABC-CLIO online American History encyclopedia that is linked to the Menu. These resources offer outlines of key ideas, and all of the articles may be read to the students by clicking on the audio button. Our resources link also connects to pages packed with online resources to enrich and expand all of our units of study. To review- the American Nation text site provides practice chapter tests, and the Class Zone Activities site provides many interactive review activities. Both of these will be again demonstrated to students in class.//

//Every link in the menu leads to amazing Social Studies resources that will be worked with in this course.//

=**Check Assignments in the menu to get to day by day HW assignments and class activity plans. __This Wiki will always have more detailed information than the HW Hotline__**=


 * //More information about using this wiki follows below...//**

Getting Started
 * Check the Navigation Menu to the Right to access the different features of our Course Site
 * Once you have created a Wikispaces account, or sign in to wikispaces through this site you must request to join this site.
 * Once your request to join this site is approved, you will be able to participate in discussions... and eventually interact with your teachers and peers through a number of activities and projects that will be run through or linked to this site.
 * As a member of this site you will be able to edit any page. But please, edit and add only to those pages that are created for you or that you are given permission to create. This site is meant to be a great, friendly place for all 270 Harmon 8th graders to interact with their teachers and their peers. All changes are recorded and identified by author. Please help us keep this site friendly and working by reporting any postings that you find objectionable or any links or features that appear broken.

We're looking forward to a great year! //**Mr. Paul Frankmann and Mrs. Nancy Tyrrell**//

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 * Click on the help link above in the top right hand corner to learn more about how to use this wiki.