Social Studies Update Week of 8/26/24
Greetings 8th Grade Families!
Last week students finished up their work on the Articles of Confederation and were introduced to the conflicts of the Constitutional Convention. Students were tasked to list the pros and cons of the following conflicts:
1. Should the federal or state governments have more power?
2. Should states with larger populations have more representation in congress or should states have equal representation.
3. Should slavery continue to be legal under our new constitution?
4. Should a bill of rights be added to the constitution listing citizen's individual rights.
Students will finish up this work and then they will debate and create their proposals on how they think these conflicts should be resolved. They will need to compromise to make sure their final proposals takes into account the needs of all the states. After students submit their proposals, I will show them a video about what our founders decided.
As we are progressing through the first quarter, I would like to invite you all to regularly check Infinite Campus to check on your student's grades and identify any incomplete or missing assignments that may need to be finished. Click on the following link to create your Infinite Campus account if you do not already have one. https://4.files.edl.io/8b72/09/15/22/164611-24e1a24a-402c-49de-9a50-97e1e60c66bd.pdf
The following link will help you set up the Infinite Campus App, which is nice to have as you can set it to notify you whenever a grade is entered for your student. https://1.cdn.edl.io/X3X3DBQ7iIoHx1h6P5aI99A0RyC52XnQd9k5SnwDVIODKHgl.pdf
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Mr. Rowan