Grade 8 Fall — The Long Road to the Civil War, the War Itself from Multiple Perspectives, Reconstruction as Betrayed Promise, and the Industrial-Gilded Age (United States 1850-1900)
History · CUL
G8
hist.g8.f.cul.capstone_reconstruction_unfinished_business_storybook
Synthesize the entire G8-Fall unit into a Reconstruction-as-Unfinished-Business Foxfire 3-copy storybook (10-12 pages, illustrated, primary-source-grounded) + civic-action letter mailed to one of 12 named descendant-community institutions — Banks Level 4 SOCIAL ACTION + 5-STAR SELF-REFLECTION assessment-as-learning
Lesson 20 (90 minutes capstone) produces dual-strand deliverables; each student produces 3 copies of storybook (1 to school library + 1 to family + 1 to chosen institution per Foxfire protocol) + 1 civic-action letter; 5-STAR self-reflection covers I-LEARNED + I-CAN + I-STILL-WONDER + WHAT-I-WILL-DO + WHO-I-AM-AS-HISTORIAN.
Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
12
Typical minutes
90
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
- Analyze the second wave of US immigration 1880-1924 — Ellis Island 1892+ (Eastern + Southern European: Italian + Polish + Jewish + Greek + Slavic) + Angel Island 1910+ (Chinese + Japanese + Korean + Filipino) + 20M+ total — AND the Chinese Exclusion Act May 6 1882 as FIRST RACE-BASED FEDERAL IMMIGRATION BAN per Lee 2003; Saum Song Bo 1885 letter + Wong Kim Ark 1898 SCOTUS birthright citizenship; Rock Springs 1885 + Tacoma 1885 anti-Chinese violence
- Analyze Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 ('separate but equal') + Harlan dissent + Jim Crow segregation + Ida B. Wells Southern Horrors 1892 + A Red Record 1895 + EJI 2017 Lynching in America (4,400+ lynchings 1877-1950) + Booker T. Washington Atlanta Compromise 1895 + W.E.B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk 1903 + Black colleges 1865-1900 + NACW 1896
- Analyze the Dawes General Allotment Act 1887 (138M Indigenous acres in 1887 reduced to 48M by 1934 = 65% loss) + Carlisle Indian Industrial School 1879 founded by Richard Pratt + 'Kill the Indian, save the man' July 4 1892 + 408 federal boarding schools 1819-1969 (Newland 2022 US DOI Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative) — named as cultural genocide per current historiography
- Analyze the Compromise of 1877 as federal abandonment that allowed Reconstruction's violent overthrow — NOT natural collapse; document KKK + White Leagues + Red Shirts + Colfax 1873 + Hamburg 1876 + Mississippi Plan 1875 + Enforcement Acts 1870-1871 + Slaughter-House 1873 + Cruikshank 1876 + Civil Rights Cases 1883 + Compromise of 1877 per Foner 1988 + Du Bois 1935 + Gates 2019
Successors
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hist.g8.s.cul.capstone_twentieth_century_civics_deep_dive
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Common misconceptions
- Treating capstone as 'creative project' rather than rigorous historical-evidence-grounded synthesis — storybook must cite ≥5 primary sources + ≥3 scholarly works + apply MG-7 + Q9
- Treating civic-action letter as 'extra credit' — it is required Banks Level 4 SOCIAL ACTION deliverable