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OVERVIEW
In this lesson, students will read a passage about the White Shaman Rock Shelter pictographs in South Texas. Students will be able to explain the significance and challenges of using pictographic artifacts in the study of history. This lesson will give students a chance to better understand how modern people make inferences about past people and to understand that historical assertions based on these early artifacts are not absolute.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
- What is one way early people of Texas told their stories, and how does it help us learn about their lives today?
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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Slideshow
This ready-to-use classroom slideshow 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 questions including sentence stems for in-class responses. It concludes with the exit ticket.
Student Activities
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Warm-up and Exit Ticket
In this printable Warm-up / bell-ringer activity, students will create a visual representation of something significant in their lives.
In this Exit Ticket, students will either look at the image from their own warm-up as though they have never seen it before, or they will swap with a shoulder partner. They will make inferences about what the image might represent.
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Grade Level Student Worksheet
This printable worksheet assignment includes a reading passage about the White Shaman Rock Shelter pictographs in South Texas. It details modern inferences about these rock paintings and their significance in the study of history. It discusses the challenges modern people have studying the lives of past people without the use of written histories.
Grade Level combines short, constructed response and multiple-choice questions. New vocabulary terms are presented in a short chunk of matching with definitions provided.
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Foundation Student Worksheet
Foundations Level 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. New vocabulary terms are presented in a short chunk of matching with definitions provided.
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Advanced Student Worksheet
Advanced Level involves more writing, including short, constructed response questions including higher level analysis skills.
Sources
Previews and links to sources referenced in this lesson.
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[Prehistoric paintings on cavern walls]
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