Given background information, students will identify the social and economic impact of World War II on the American home front, such as the Great Depression, rationing, and increased opportunity for women and minority employment.

Given broad categories that describe the major goals of the progressive movement and general information about selected issues of the late 1800’s/early 1900’s, students will categorize the issues according to corresponding progressive era goals.

After analyzing primary and secondary resources about the child labor, the students should be able to draw conclusions about the need to reform child labor practices.

Students will describe how Upton Sinclair's The Jungle reflected issues of the Progressive Era.

Given information about Roosevelt’s Square Deal, students will create cause-and-effect diagrams to explain the reasons for and impact of selected reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt administration.

You will be able to recognize linguistic roots and affixes to use in determining the meaning of academic English word and in other content areas.

Given the voting rights amendments, students will create an annotated time line that illustrates how voting rights have been extended to various groups of people throughout the history of the United States.

Given Supreme Court case summaries, students will compare and contrast the impact of the Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education decisions.

You will be able to evaluate connections between forms of narration (unreliable narrator, omniscient, etc.) and tone in works of fiction.

You will read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.

You will learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct capitalization.

You will learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct spelling.