Countdown to STAAR

I was fortunate enough to work with an 8th grade team recently planning a two week STAAR review.  After analyzing data from the STAAR and their assessments all year long, we determined that we had multiple goals. Our goals were to not only review the content from the entire year, but to also incorporate as many processing skills as possible – a huge challenge! We created a plan that highlights the key content and is engaging for students to prep for the STAAR test. Check it out below:

Day
Topics
Activity
Notes
    1
Era Review
Start out the period sequencing the events in US History 
 
-keep on a binder ring for the entire two week unit

 

 

 
Day
Topics
Activity
Notes
 2
Colonization and American Revolution
 
Colonization Review 
Activity TBD
   Review the events to the    American Revolution 
   through a sequencing 
   activity
Day
Topics
Activity
Notes
   3
Creating 
the Constitution
Federalists vs. Anti-federalists
-Who said what? Matching the quote to a Federalist or Anti-federalist
-Review Court Cases

 

4
Govt. 
 
The Principles of Government is a sort activity where students create a 3 way match between the definition, picture and example.
 
In the Bill of Rights Scenarios, students match a scenario or image to the correct amendment
 
Day
Topics
Activity
Notes
5
Early Republic 
and 
Jackson
Political Cartoons 
on Jackson
 
 
Hamilton v. Jefferson
-Analyze a few political cartoons on Andrew Jackson
 
-Match quotes to images from Washington’s Farewell Address
 
-Who said what? – Hamilton v. Jefferson quotes
Day
Topics
Activity
Notes
6
Manifest Destiny & The 
Mexican American War
Picture analysis of the growth of the United States
 
Tic Tac Connect on the Mexican American War TBD
-Map analysis of the growth of the United States
 
-Key terms and maps from the Mexican American War

 

 
 
7
Immigration and Industrial Revolution
 
Primary Source 
Quote analysis on Immigration
-3 way matching game with images, quotes and titles of inventions of the Industrial Revolution
 
-short reading on immigration
Day
Topics
Activity
Notes
8
Reformers and Causes of the Civil War
Sequencing 
activity on the Events Leading to the 
-Challenge your students to sequence the events leading to the Civil War
9
Civil War and Reconstruction
I have, Who has 
on the Civil 
War
 
-Look at primary source images and quotes and identify the image that doesn’t fit the pattern
10
Conclusion
-A game board activity that includes Act-It-Outs, Who Am I? Questions, Skill Questions and Recall Questions
 
I wish you great success on your STAAR review! If you are interested, I have a majority of these activities in my STAAR Review Bundle.
 
 

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