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Description
OVERVIEW
Students will be able to identify and summarize the primary characteristics of the era of Natural Texas and Its People. Students will also recognize the cause-and-effect relationship between the end of this era and the arrival of the Spanish. Students will predict what they might see in the next unit.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
- What are the key defining characteristics of the era of early Texas People?
- How might the arrival of new people from a different culture affect American Indians in Texas and the course of Texas history?
Teacher Tools
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Lesson Plan, Teacher Guide, Primary Sources Used
Downloadable/editable versions of this lesson plan, including a step-by-step guide through the lesson. When applicable, a list of primary sources used in the lesson is also included.
Student Activities
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Warm-up and Exit Ticket
In this printable warm-up / bell-ringer activity, students consider a hypothetical situation in which they arrive on a different planet and encounter the beings they meet there. They record their responses about what they might think, wonder, feel, and experience.
In this exit ticket, students will imagine the encounter from the warm-up between people from a different planet from the other point of view. Students will write their potential thoughts, questions, and experience if people from another planet showed up in their community.
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Slideshow
This ready-to-use classroom slideshow contains the warm-up exercise, the daily objective, the “We will / I will” statements, and the essential questions for the lesson.It guides the class through the assignment providing larger versions of images, visual representations of the directions, and supports for reading and answering questions including sentence stems for in-class responses. It concludes with the exit ticket.
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Grade Level Student Work
In part I of this printable assignment -The End of an Era: - students read a brief passage explaining the era of Natural Texas and Its People, and the development of a new period of time in Texas history when the Spanish arrive.
Part II: Two Worlds Collide: Students read an excerpt from a primary source by Cabeza de Vaca describing his first encounter with American Indians in Texas. Students use the passage to answer questions about terms in context and to interpret the author’s experience and meaning.
Grade Level work combines short, constructed response and multiple-choice questions.
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Foundation Student Work
Foundations level work requires less writing, offering multiple choice questions and prediction / inference responses asking for fewer examples or less information. The multiple-choice questions eliminate one answer choice.
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Advanced Student Work
Advanced level work involves more writing, including short, constructed response questions. Advanced work includes a Part III: American Indians in Texas Today: Students will read questions presenting relative and absolute location related to contemporary American Indian tribes in Texas to determine which regions 3 tribes live in today. They will then use that information to identify tribal locations on a map.
Sources
Previews and links to sources referenced in this lesson.
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Excerpt from De Vaca, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza. The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific 1528 - 1536.
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