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OVERVIEW
In this lesson, students will review significant terms, concepts, and information from the unit to prepare for the test. Students will identify the significance of key terms, events, and people, make claims about information within the unit and support their claims with evidence, and practice answering questions that are based on the 8th grade STAAR question types.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
- What significant information do we need to know in order to be successful on the unit 2 test?
Teacher Tools
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Lesson Plan, Teacher Guide, Primary Sources Used
Downloadable/editable versions of this lesson plan, including a step-by-step guide through the lesson. When applicable, a list of primary sources used in the lesson is also included.
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Slideshow
This ready-to-use classroom slideshow contains the warm-up exercise, the daily objective, the “We will / I will” statements, and the essential question for the lesson.
It guides the class through the assignment providing larger versions of images, visual representations of the directions, and supports for reading, taking notes, and answering questions including sentence stems for in-class responses. It concludes with the exit ticket.
Student Activities
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Warm-up and Exit Ticket
In this printable warm-up / bell-ringer activity, students will Students identify topics relevant to the unit that they might see on the test from a list of various social studies topics.
This allows students an opportunity to categorize information that belongs in unit 2 and anticipate topics that could be covered on the test.
In this exit ticket, students will answer self-assessment questions about their understanding of the material and what steps they can take next to better prepare themselves for the
The Warm-up and Exit Ticket document includes two warm-ups on the front of the page and two exit tickets on the back of the page. This formatting reduces the number of copies needed, as teachers will cut each printed page in half. Each student will receive a half-page with the warm-up on the front and the exit ticket on the back.
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Flash Cards
These optional, printable flash cards provide a way for students to study and review important unit terms and their definitions and significance, focusing on the regions of Texas, their characteristics, and the American Indian tribes who lived in each area.
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Student Work
In this printable worksheet assignment, students will identify the definitions and significance of key terms, concepts, people, places, and events of the unit. Students will create a short, constructed response based on a writing prompt about significant effects of the Age of Contact. Students will answer practice test questions based on the new 8th grade social studies STAAR item types.
Grade Level work involves creating a short, constructed writing response by completing sentence stems provided and providing evidence to support a claim, matching key terms with their significance, and answering six new 8th grade social studies STAAR item type practice test questions. A word bank is provided for identifying definitions of key terms.
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Foundation Student Work
Foundations level work involves choosing from provided options to complete a short, constructed writing response using sentence stems provided and providing evidence to support a claim, matching key terms with their significance, and answering six new 8th grade social studies STAAR item type practice questions with answer choices eliminated and some answers provided in questions requiring more than one answer. Students are given three options to choose from for identifying definitions of key terms.
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Advanced Student Work
Advanced level work involves creating complete short, constructed writing responses with evidence to support a claim, matching key terms with their significance, and answering six new 8th grade social studies STAAR item type practice test questions. A word bank is provided for identifying definitions of key terms. Not every term in the word bank will be used.
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