META24 CORE · PROJECT-BASED · HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES · MIDDLE SCHOOL · GRADE 8 · 1 CREDIT · C3 FRAMEWORK (D2.HIS · D2.GEO · D3 · D4)
American History 8 · The Record
History read from the record itself: Toussaint’s letter and the Haitian declaration, Nat Turner’s confession as the lawyer wrote it down, Douglass on the Fifth of July, Spies before the court, Ida B. Wells publishing the numbers; the Sugar Act and the pamphlet that asked Britain to stop; then the ground itself — Gettysburg and Little Bighorn walked in 3D. Every source read for who wrote it, when, and what they wanted; every quarter ends in a case.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & HUMANITIESREADING & WRITINGMATHART & DESIGN
The squares are a picture of a course — how much of each core subject its own rooms carry, read from the rooms’ text — never a score of a student. Every course in a lab is graded to the core across the board; the squares say which columns it feeds most.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
- Read a primary source for authorship, audience and purpose, and cite it by line
- Place events on a map and a timeline and explain how geography shaped them
- Walk a battlefield in 3D and argue what the ground decided
- Write an evidence-bound case and answer the strongest objection
AT A GLANCE · 36 WEEKS
Q1 Rebels · 1791 to 1831 — THE CASE · Haiti
Q2 Rebels · 1852 to 1892 — THE CASE · the numbers
Q3 Sugar · the Act and the pamphlet — THE CASE · the boycott
Q4 The Field · the ground decides — The Field · the case presented
Semester 1
WEEKS 1–18 · QUARTERS 1 AND 2Rebels · 1791 to 1831
WEEKS 1–9THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1–4Saint-Domingue
Toussaint writes to the French government; the Haitian Declaration of Independence; the map from Cap-Français to Fort de Joux.
WK 5–7Southampton County
The Confessions of Nat Turner — as the lawyer wrote them down; what a source filtered through another hand can and cannot tell you.
WK 8–9The ledger
The price of being recognised: 150 million francs, worked as a number.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
THE CASE · Haiti
The question. What did independence cost Haiti — and who decided the price?
The make. A written case with a claim, three sources cited by line, the ledger’s number worked, and the opposing reading answered
The evidence. THE CASE, handed in through The Record
D2.His.1.6-8D2.His.10.6-8D2.His.16.6-8D3.1.6-8D4.1.6-8
Rebels · 1852 to 1892
WEEKS 10–18 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 10–12Rochester, 5 July 1852
Douglass on the Fifth of July: the speech read against the day it was given.
WK 13–16Haymarket and Memphis
August Spies addresses the court; Ida B. Wells publishes the numbers — A Red Record as a table.
WK 17–18The Scramble
The Record’s game: every ledger entry with its cite line.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
THE CASE · the numbers
The question. What did Wells’s table prove that the newspapers would not print — and how do you know the table is right?
The make. A written case built on Wells’s own numbers, with the method of the table explained and one modern claim tested the same way
The evidence. THE CASE, handed in through The Record
D2.His.3.6-8D2.His.13.6-8D2.His.16.6-8D3.2.6-8D4.2.6-8
Semester 2
WEEKS 19–36 · QUARTERS 3 AND 4Sugar · the Act and the pamphlet
WEEKS 19–27THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 19–21The Sugar Act, 1764
Parliament writes the Sugar Act; who it taxed and who it told.
WK 22–25The pamphlet, 1791
William Fox asks Britain to stop eating sugar; the Atlantic map; the line in order.
WK 26–27The Taking
The Record’s second game: every entry with its cite line.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
THE CASE · the boycott
The question. Can what people buy change what a government does — in 1791, and now?
The make. A written case on the sugar boycott with the Act, the pamphlet and the ledger cited, and a modern parallel argued
The evidence. THE CASE, handed in through The Record
D2.His.1.6-8D2.Eco.1.6-8D2.Civ.14.6-8D3.4.6-8D4.3.6-8
The Field · the ground decides
WEEKS 28–36THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 28–31Gettysburg, 1–3 July 1863
The field walked in 3D: the ridges, the road, the three days; the levers; the case.
WK 32–34Little Bighorn, 1876
The ground, the two accounts, what the record names and what it does not.
WK 35–36The Maker
A game made from a source, on the Scramble’s engine.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The Field · the case presented
The question. What did the ground decide at Gettysburg — and what would you have had to know, standing on it, to see it?
The make. A presented case from the field: the levers named, the ground argued, the sources cited
The evidence. The case, presented and handed in through The Field; the game, published through The Maker
D2.Geo.2.6-8D2.Geo.4.6-8D2.His.14.6-8D3.4.6-8D4.3.6-8
A course is a quarter, a semester or a year — nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks — a project a quarter. Offered as the year, a semester or a quarter, it is the same course seen through a window. A lab is a family: its year, each of its tracks as a course, and its rooms. The evidence is what a student hands in through the room; the Report reads it from there. Nothing in the catalog is a grade.
THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
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