8th grade

8th Grade Reconstruction Essays

The students wrote these essays in class using primary source documents. The goal is to prepare them to use original documents to inform...

The 8th graders wrote essays about the causes of the Civil War. They did their research from original documents and sources as well as...

For this project students were tasked with writing a research paper that compared slavery and indentured servitude. They had to decide...

The 8th grade students interviewed someone in their family about their families experience during World War 2. Many of the students...

The 8th graders spent a week writing immigration policies, their primary focus was the fate of Syrian refugees and the people currently...

Xander Barber-McCloud Sage Brown Margot Granville Maisie Groutt Nisa Kielman-Ovetz Nico Kurthy-Bresolin Luca Simonini Vanessa...

Students have written blog posts working to connect elements of our past with our present. Many of them made connections that I hadn't...

This the link to the 8th grade Constitutional Convention speeches and debates. There are a couple that need to be re-shot, and I will...

Click this link to read some of the articles that the 8th graders chose for their news scavenger hunts. They had to find an article and...