South Carolina Journey (8th grade)

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  Chapter 1: Two Worlds Meet

  The 2012 Allendale Paleoamerican Expedition

  allendale-expedition.net/

  Cherokees of South Carolina

  www.cherokeesofsouthcarolina.com/

  Enchanted Learning—Age of Exploration

  www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/1500a.shtml

  Library of Congress

  www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/

  National Museum of the American Indian

  http://www.nmai.si.edu/

  South Carolina Historical Society

  www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/

  South Carolina’s Information Highway—South Carolina Indians

  www.sciway.net/hist/indians/

  Study SC—First Peoples

  http://studysc.org/middle-school/history-1865-first-south-carolinians/first-south-carolinians

  Florida History—Account of Hernán de Soto’s Expedition

  http://www.floridahistory.com/elvas-2.html

  Chapter 2: Colonial South Carolina

  Age of Pirates—Encyclopedia

  ageofpirates.com/pirateencyclopedia.php

  Colonial House

  www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/history/index.html

  Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Colonization and Settlement, 1585–1763

  https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/colonization-and-settlement-1585%E2%80%931763

  North Carolina Digital History—Naval Stores

  http://www.learnnc.org:80/lp/editions/nchist-colonial/4069

  Penn Center

  www.penncenter.com/

  Slavery in America

  https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/index.html

  Study SC—First Peoples

  http://studysc.org/middle-school/history-1865-first-south-carolinians/first-south-carolinians

  Teaching American History, Document Library

  http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/

  The Terrible Transformation, Part 1—The Stono Rebellion

  www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p284.html

  Chapter 3: South Carolina in the American Revolution

  Carolana.com—The American Revolution in South Carolina

  www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/home.html

  Digital History—Revolutionary War Module

  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=3&smtid=1

  DotSUB Videos—How a US President Is Elected

  dotsub.com/view/0c504c81-cebc-4370-bf94-b20fce57c38f

  Historical Scene Investigation (HSI)

  https://hsi.wm.edu/

  History.com—America in the British Empire

  www.history.com/topics/america-in-the-british-empire

  PBS—Liberty! The American Revolution

  www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

  Library of Congress—The American Revolution, 1763–1783

  www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials

  Library of Congress—The New Nation, 1783–1815

  www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials

  Library of Congress—Civics and Government

  www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/civics/

  National Archives and Records Administration

  www.archives.gov/

  Online Books—A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion

  onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu

  SCIWAY, South Carolina’s Information Highway—South Carolina and the American Revolution

  www.sciway.net/hist/periods/revolwar.html

  Teaching American History, Document Library—Founding Era

  http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/founding/

  Chapter 4: Antebellum South Carolina

  Protective Tariff Cartoon

  www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=365

  Protective Tariff Video

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK8PHLLdO2k&feature=related

  South Carolina’s Cherokee

  uncpress.unc.edu/nc_encyclopedia/cherokee.html

  Trail of Tears

  • www.cherokee-nc.com/index.php?page=62
  • www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/beyond_broadcast/landing_3

  South Carolina Currency

  www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/CurrencyText/SC-04-10-78.html

  Primary Documents in American History—Kansas-Nebraska Act

  www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/kansas.html

  Primary Documents in American History—Missouri Compromise

  www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Missouri.html

  Africans in America, Part 3

  www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/title.html

  Expansion and Reform

  http://studysc.org/middle-school/history-1865/expansion-and-reform

  Dave the Potter

  • https://cfileonline.org/history-file-dave-potter/
  • http://leonardtodd.com/daves-life_283.html

  The Underground Railroad

  www.osblackhistory.com/songs.php

  South Carolina Plantations

  south-carolina-plantations.com/charleston/grove.html

  Slavery

  http://studysc.org/middle-school/history-1865-slavery/slavery

  Current Event Articles

  • www.npr.org/2011/11/29/142895347/arab-spring-turns-to-arab-autumn
  • https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/11/17/142473380/occupy-wall-street-a-lesson-on-an-organic-movement
  • https://www.npr.org/2011/11/08/142123503/tea-party-looks-to-impact-presidential-election
  • https://www.cnn.com/2012/06/25/politics/scotus-arizona-law/index.html
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/book-review-mightier-than-the-sword-by-david-s-reynolds.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

  Chapter 5: A Nation Divided

  American Slavery Maps

  www.nytimes.com

  Bonnie Blue Flag

  www.civilwar.org

  Civil War Chronicle

  www.civilwar.com/

  Civil War Commentary

  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/opinion/disunion.html

  Civil War Landscape

  https://www.battlefields.org/learn/maps

  Civil War Facts

  www.civilwar.org/150th-anniversary/

  Documenting the South

  docsouth.unc.edu/

  Friends of the Hunley

  www.hunley.org/

  General Sherman’s March

  www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/shermans-march-to-the-sea.htm

  Gettysburg Reenactment

  www.teachertube.com

  Harpweek: Explore History—Harper’s Weekly

  www.harpweek.com

  Lincoln’s Assassination

  http://famous-trials.com/lincoln/2167-newspaper

  “O Captain! My Captain!”

  www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174742

  Weapons of the Civil War

  www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarweapons.htm

  Chapter 6: The Second Civil War

  American Slavery Maps

  www.nytimes.com

  Afghanistan Aid

  http://www.nytimes.com

  American Black Codes

  http://ushistoryscene.com/article/excerpts-south-carolina-black-codes-1865/

  Antimiscegenation Law

  http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/M/Miscegenation.aspx

  Appealing to the Supreme Court

  http://teachertube.com

  Frances E. W. Harper

  http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/writHarper.htm

  Impeachment Definition

  https://litigation.findlaw.com/legal-system/presidential-impeachment-the-legal-standard-and-procedure.html

  Iraq Reconstruction

  http://www.nytimes.com

  Libya Reconstruction

  http://www.nytimes.com

  Life Magazine Photos

  http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/the-heart-of-the-matter-love/

  Lovings v. Virginia

  http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Loving_v_Virginia_1967#start_entry

  Lowell Mill Girls

  http://web.bryant.edu/~ehu/h364proj/summ_99/hutchinson/index.htm

  New York Times Search Base

  http://www.nytimes.com

  Paul Hamilton Hayne’s Poems

  http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/hayne/hayne.html

  Political Cartoons

  http://www.andrewjohnson.com/listofcartoons/ListOfCartoons.htm

  President Obama Appoints Consumer Agency Chief

  http://www.npr.org

  Sharecropping Contract

  http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/recon/contract.htm

  Susan B. Anthony’s Trial

  http://famous-trials.com/Anthony

  Chapter 7: Expansion and Reform

  Attack Ads

  www.dailymotion.com/video/xjm97v_2012-election-attack-ads-get-early-start_news

  Billie Holiday Article

  www.ladyday.net/stuf/vfsept98.html

  Booker T. Washington’s Speech

  historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/

  Business Behind Attack Ads

  video.foxnews.com/v/1435954167001/the-business-behind-attack-ads/

  Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

  http://cprr.org/

  Digital History, Classroom Tested Handouts, and Fact Sheets

  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/handouts/handouts.cfm

  Digital History, Gilded Age Module

  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=9&smtid=1

  Famous Inventions

  www.ideafinder.com/history/timeline/the1800s.htm

  Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

  www.mtwain.com/The_Gilded_Age/index.html

  Honest Graft

  www.panarchy.org/plunkitt/graft.1905.html

  Inventors

  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml

  The Jungle

  www.online-literature.com/upton_sinclair/jungle/14/

  Remembering Jim Crow

  http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/transcript.html

  Remembering Jim Crow Audio

  americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/bitter.html

  Résumé Template

  https://templates.office.com/en-US/Resumes-and-Cover-Letters

  The Souls of Black Folk

  www.bartleby.com/114/3.html

  “Strange Fruit”

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk

  Slavery by Another Name

  video.pbs.org/program/slavery-another-name/

  The American Experience—Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World

  https://kaltura.uga.edu/media/t/1_2koak4tp/33785631

  The American Presidency Project, Party Platforms

  www.presidency.ucsb.edu/platforms.php

  There is Power in a Union

  www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/power.html

  Chapter 8: Conflict and Challenge

  The American Homefront

  www.history.com/topics/us-home-front-during-world-war-ii

  Dear Mrs. Roosevelt

  newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htm

  First World War

  www.firstworldwar.com

  The Emergence of Modern America

  www.archives.gov/education/lessons/modern-america.html

  Federal Art Project

  www.wpamurals.com/scarolin.htm

  Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Heritage Center Museum

  www.fdrheritage.org/new_deal.html

  The Great Depression and World War II

  www.archives.gov/education/lessons/depression-wwii.html

  Great Depression Images

  • https://digital.scetv.org/teachingAmerhistory/tTrove/depressionimages.htm
  • www.archives.gov/education/lessons/depression-wwii.html

  The Great Migration

  www.phillipscollection.org/migration_series/flash/experience.cfm

  Harlem Renaissance

  www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.html

  “In Flanders Fields”

  www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/McCrae.html

  Japanese Internment Camps

  www.janm.org/exhibits/breed/breed_t.htm

  The Ku Klux Klan Returns

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/flood-klan/

  Library of Congress, Web Guides

  www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/wwi/wwi.html

  Navajo Code Dictionary

  https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/n/navajo-code-talker-dictionary.html

  The Negro Leagues

  • http://www.nlbpa.com/the-athletes
  • www.negroleaguebaseball.com/players/players_index.html

  “The New Negro”

  us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/pdocs/locke_new.pdf

  PBS, 1914–1918: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

  www.pbs.org/greatwar/

  Propaganda Poster

  • www.wisconsinhistory.org
  • http://worldwar2headquarters.com/HTML/posters/american/scrap-metal.html
  • www.intheirwords.org

  Rationing

  http://www.crossroads.odl.state.ok.us:80/shell/exhibits/ww2rationing/

  Smithsonian Institute, World War II on the Homefront

  www.smithsonianeducation.org

  South Carolina in World War I

  http://scmemory.org/collection/forward-together-south-carolina-in-world-war-i/

  Surviving the Dust Bowl

  https://web.archive.org/web/20120404223307/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowl-new-deal/

  TIME Photos, Twentieth-Century Technology

  www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2026224,00.html

  Tuskegee Airmen

  http://growpurpose.com/blackhistoryweb/black-history-teacher-guides/the-tuskegee-airmen/

  The National World War II Museum

  www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/ww2-history/

  Chapter 9: Turbulence and Change

  Best of History Websites, an EdTech Resource

  http://besthistorysites.net/american-history/cold-war-era/

  Civil Rights Movement Veterans

  www.crmvet.org/

  Cold War International History Project, Wilson Center

  www.wilsoncenter.org/program/cold-war-international-history-project

  John F. Kennedy Presidential Library—Cuban Missile Crisis

  www.jfklibrary.org/

  Library of Congress—Voices of Civil Rights

  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

  www.nasa.gov/

  National Park Service—We Shall Overcome, Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement

  https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/sc1.htm

  PBS Teachers—Resources for the Classroom

  www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7059/preview/

  PBS Teachers—The Civil Rights Movement

  https://web.archive.org/web/20110513231805/www.pbs.org/teachers/thismonth/civilrights/index3.html

  Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching

  civilrightsteaching.org/

  Road Trip!

  https://www.knowitall.org/series/road-trip?ID=30

  Teaching American History in South Carolina: The Historical and Economic Impact of Military Bases in South Carolina

  https://digital.scetv.org/teachingAmerhistory/lessons/pdfs_and_docs/documents/TheHistoricalandEconomicImpactofMilitaryBasesinSouthCarolina.html

  Times Topics (New York Times), Strom Thurmond

  https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/strom-thurmond

  Chapter 10: Modern South Carolina

  Global Youth Action Network

  gyan.tigweb.org/

  Mark Sanford’s Inaugural Address

  dc.statelibrary.sc.gov

  Nikki Haley’s Inaugural Address

  www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13831271

  Remembering the Textile Mills

  news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1019_041019_textile_mills_2.html

  SCIWay

  www.sciway.net/gov/

  SCIWay, South Carolina Governors

  www.sciway.net/hist/governors/

  South Carolina Republican Party

  www.scgop.com/

  South Carolina Democratic Party

  www.scdp.org/

  SC Economics

  www.sceconomics.org/jumponit/resources.php

  Teaching American History In South Carolina

  https://digital.scetv.org/teachingAmerhistory/lessons/pdfs_and_docs/documents/TheHistoricalandEconomicImpactofMilitaryBasesinSouthCarolina.html

  Youth Service America

  www.ysa.org/

• Student Edition
  Abstract:

  The South Carolina Journey is a textbook program that meets the 2011 state-approved South Carolina Social Studies Academic Standards for Grade 8. The student textbook covers the history of South Carolina from prehistoric times to the present, with an emphasis on how the state’s history coincides with the history of the nation as intended by the state standards.

• Student Guide
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  The South Carolina Journey Student Guide includes five activity pages for each lesson in the Teacher Guide: Activator, Key Vocabulary, Comprehension Strategy, Writing Portfolio, and Review Activity. These activities support the material in the Student Edition and promote critical thinking.

• Teacher Guide
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  The South Carolina Journey Teacher Guide supports the Student Edition with multiple lesson activities focused on social studies, reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, online research, and cross-curricular topics. It also includes resource lists for each lesson, thumbnails of accompanying Student Guide pages, chapter assessments, an answer key, and a set of Teacher Tools (maps, graphic organizers, and lesson support). The program is designed to support state standards as well as common core standards.

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