Grade08 - Coventry Public Schools

GRADE 8ERA 4 Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter 300 – 1000 CEContent Standards Performance Standards Benchmarks Instructional Strategies Resources Evidence of Learning2B The student understandsCause and effectAnalyze the sources and development ofThe White Stag (Attilla Connections to vocabulary, places andthe significance ofIslamic Law and its influence on religiousthe Hun) Kate Seredyevents of todaythe Abbasid Caliphate as apractice, family life, moral behavior,center of culturalmarriage, inheritance, and slavery.Silk Route John Major To what might the Crusades be comparedinnovation and hub ofTodayinterregional trade in theGrowing up in Ancient8 th To what might the Black Death be compared-10 centuries.China Ken Teaguetoday?2C The student understandsthe consolidation ofthe Byzantine state in thecontext of expandingIslamic civilization.History Standard 4The search for political,social, and culturalredefinition in Europe,500-1000 CE.4A The student understandsthe coalescence ofpolitical and social order inEuropeHistory Standard 5The development ofagricultural societies andnew states in tropicalAfrica and Oceania5A The student understandsstate-building inNortheast and West Africaand southward migrationsof Bantu-speaking peoples.Reconstruct patterns ofhistorical succession andduration.Analyze cause and effect.Interrogate historical data.Examine the influence ofideas.Explain how the Byzantine state withstoodArab Muslim attacks between the 7 th and 10 thcenturies.Evaluate the Byzantine role in preserving andtransmitting ancient Greek learning.Assess the impact of Norse (Viking) andMagyar migrations and invasions, as well asinternal conflicts, on the emergence ofindependent lords and the knightly class.Assess changes in the legal, social, andeconomic status of peasants in the 9 th and 10 thcenturies.Analyze the importance of monasteries andconvents as centers of political power,economic productivity, and communal life.Explain how the contrasting naturalenvironments of West Africa definedagricultural production, and analyze theimportance of the Niger River in promotingagriculture, commerce and state building.Catherine Called BirdyKaren CushmanMidwife’s ApprenticeKaren ChusmanAdam of the RoadElizabeth Gray ViningThe Ch’lin PurseLinda FangThe Terra Cotta Armyof Emperor QinCaroline LazoOngoing Timeline entriesGeography Study:What were the geographic barriers theMongol’s faced?What were the geographic barriers theCrusaders faced?Map Study:The routes of the spread of IslamThe routes the Crusaders followed on theirway to JerusalemMarco Polo’s route to China; the silk routesGenghis Khan’s route of Mongolia throughChina and beyondContinents and regions affected by theBlack DeathCulture Study:-The importance of Islam or the Catholic Church inshaping the lives of the people at the time2