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Louisiana Bayou Bridges Grade 8

Focus:
Grade 8 of the Louisiana Bayou Bridges Curriculum Series covers the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction to the modern age. Students will explore the vast social and economic changes that the nation experienced in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They will read America’s growth as a world power and its involvement in both world wars. They will read about how the United States and the state of Louisiana grappled with the challenges of the Great Depression and natural disasters such as the Dust Bowl and the Great Flood of 1927. They will follow the United States through the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement and into the War on Terror. Throughout their study, students will read and hear the words of U.S. presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama, as well as other leaders such as Huey Long and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Instruction Time: 45–55 minutes per class period

 

Each unit includes the following:

TEACHER GUIDE: Each Teacher Guide explains the program components and provides suggested pacing, detailed lesson plans, activity page masters, and chapter and unit assessments.

STUDENT READER: Each Student Reader is engagingly written and richly illustrated with maps and color images. Each volume includes primary sources, vocabulary call-outs, and a glossary.

STUDENT WORKBOOK: Each workbook includes selected primary sources and activity pages from the Student Reader and Teacher Guide, plus  note-taking graphic organizers and pages for completing the Checks for Understanding and Performance Tasks. COMING SOON!

ONLINE RESOURCES: The Online Resources for each unit provides links to background information for teachers, timeline card slide decks, resources to support guided reading, and additional activities, including artifact studies, primary source examinations, and virtual field trips.

Louisiana Bayou Bridges Grade 8 English

Grade 8 Units

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Unit 1: A Nation in Conflict UNIT MATERIALS

The period after the American Civil War continued to be a time of conflict in the United States, as wars were waged for control of the West, Native Americans fought assimilation and relocation, and African Americans struggled for their rights.
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Unit 2: The Changing Nation UNIT MATERIALS

During the 1800s, increased immigration and industrialization led to rapid change in the United States, which resulted in populist and progressive reform movements to address economic, social, and political issues.
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Unit 3: The Changing World UNIT MATERIALS

The United States expanded its global reach through its acquisition of Hawaii and participation in the Spanish-American War before being drawn into the global conflict of World War I. America’s entry into the war altered not only the course of the conflict itself but also the very fabric of American society.
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Unit 4: Prosperity and Decline UNIT MATERIALS

Life in both Louisiana and the United States changed dramatically as the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties gave way to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The woman’s suffrage movement finally gained victory with the Nineteenth Amendment, and the Great Migration contributed to the flowering of African American culture known as the Harlem Renaissance.
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Unit 5: The World at War UNIT MATERIALS

Totalitarianism, fascist leaders, and a global economic depression contributed to the circumstances that led to the outbreak of World War II. The United States remained neutral in the conflict until the attack on Pearl Harbor provoked it to join the Allies. The first fully modern war, World War II became the largest and most destructive conflict in history.
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Unit 6: The Postwar Era UNIT MATERIALS

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the world’s two global superpowers. Over the next decades, they competed for power and influence in the Cold War. Meanwhile, at home, the United States experienced great change from the baby boom to the Civil Rights Movement to the stagflation of the 1970s and the growth of the conservative movement in the 1980s.
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Unit 7: The Modern Era UNIT MATERIALS

Since the 1990s, the United States has faced a variety of domestic and international changes and challenges, from natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina to economic crises such as the Great Recession, from terrorist attacks within and outside the United States to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the development of technologies such as social media to an increase in globalization.

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