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Description
Overview
Students will be able to write or speak a clear summary of the unit’s main ideas. They will be able to give at least one specific example of something that will be covered in the unit, especially one that relates to primary source materials.
Essential Questions
- What are the major themes of Unit 1: Natural Texas and Its People?
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.
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Slide Show Teacher Guide
Notes regarding the slideshow for the educator.
Student Activities
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Warm-up and Exit Ticket
In this printable warm-up / bell-ringer activity, students compare different daily life activities today compared to how they believe they would have carried out these activities 1000 years ago. This will encourage students to begin to think within the context of life for the early Texas people.
In this exit ticket, students will read a short passage and answer a multiple choice question asking them to identify which excerpt from the passage best provides evidence to support the claim that early American Indians in Texas depended on the land for surival. The question is structured similarly to the new 8th grade Social Studies STAAR item type called “Hot Text” in order to prepare 7th graders for the types of questions they will see in 8th grade.
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Slideshow
This ready-to-use classroom presentation contains the warm-up exercise (above), the daily objective, the “We will / I will” statements, and the essential question 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 including sentence stems for in-class responses. It concludes with the exit ticket, which is printed on the back of the warm up.
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Grade Level Student Worksheet
This printable worksheet assignment provides students an opportunity to use a primary source image to make inferences and predictions about the main idea and key concepts of this unit.
It provides a brief reading passage with comprehension questions, questions requiring inferences, and using context to determine the meaning of key terms. Students will summarize the main idea of the unit based on the passage.
Grade Level work combines short, constructed response and multiple-choice questions.
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Foundation Student Worksheet
Foundations Level work requires less writing, offers 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 Worksheet
Advanced Level work involves more writing, including short, constructed response questions.
Sources
Previews and links to sources referenced in this lesson.
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Brion, Henry F. and Edmond McClure. Photo Relief Map of North America. 1885. The Portal to Texas History.
- Catlin, George. Caddo Indians Gathering Wild Strawberries. 1861/1869. Oil on card mounted on paperboard, 46.8 x 73.1 cm (18 7/16 x 28 ¾ in.) National Gallery of Art.
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