Soc. Studies Gr. 8

Key Video Clips: Bleeding Kansas, Harper's Ferry, John Brown's Trial 

Key 2 minute video clips: Fugitive Slave Act and 2 on Harriet Beecher Stowe

Slave advertisements that Virginia planters and farmers placed in Maryland Newspapers 1840-1860

Interesting information about Boston's fight against the Fugitive Slave Law... Towards the end there is a good excerpt from William Lloyd Garrison's law to prevent those holding public office to participate in the capturing of fugitive slaves 

15 minute video about KS-NB Act, Bleeding Kansas

Tons of background info on the Compromise, collection of quotes, and Primary Sources for the Compromise.

3 minute clip on Harriet Beecher Stowe from The Abolitionists, to be used w/lesson Uncle Tom's Cabin

Short clips from various professors about Western Expansion. all 3 min or less, really interesting specific clips about various issues related to the US expansion...

Full length video of History Channel's Donner Party doc.

Strike it Rich game...learn what to do/how to survive and find gold. Could be a fun Friday activity or an extra credit assignment.

I think this video could work in a couple of ways, it definitely ties in with Chew on This but also could spark a discussion on the role of government in day to day lives.

A new book that collects a huge number of antislavery writings, from the first antislavery statements in the late 1600s from quakers up through the Civil War. I'll see if I can get a copy and it could be used in both grade 7 and 8.

Not on DVD, only VHS... 9 Master Race 1933 The Third Reich brings barbarity to the modern era. Germany is rebuilt through huge public works program, winning Hitler adulation from a once humiliated, impoverished and unemployed German people. Radio and mass rallies become important tools for propaganda, to eulogise the Germans as a 'master race'. The Nazis also use ancient jealousies to demonise the Jews, who had a strong presence in the professions and arts. Roma, the mentally handicapped and other groups are also targeted. The Nuremburg Laws and other measures are used to progressively discriminate against and dehumanise Jews. Persecution of the Jews intensifies after Anschluss and Kristallnacht, and after the commencement of war, the Final Solution is implemented. The mass murder of Jews and other people is carried out at first by mobile killing groups (Einsatzgruppen) in occupied territories, and then on an industrialised scale through extermination camps. The introductory scene shows the celebratory march by the Sturmabteilung when Hitler wins power in Germany.

10 days, 2 of which fall under our timeframe: January 24, 1848 The beginning of the California Gold Rush also a time where people were moving from east to west September 17, 1862 The Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War

REferenced today in class, movie from Sundance about obedience. She made the connection to Milgram.

a 7-10 day unit on Gettysburg including watching parts of the movie.

Same format as the MX-AM War that we used as the basis for our essay

3 segments of the movie...cut into chunks

really interesting website from high school in Canada...cool resources, interesting approach using internet/multi-media