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OVERVIEW
In this lesson, students will identify, explain, and analyze the causes, effects, key events, and historical significance of the Battle of San Jacinto based on information presented in a 14-minute video documentary.
LESSON TIME
This lesson will take approximately 45 – 60 minutes.
Exact times may vary based on the specific needs of individual classes.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
- What were the causes, effects, and most significant events of the Battle of San Jacinto?
VIRTUAL TOUR
Dr. Andrew Torget shares facts and stories from a seminal event in Texas history - the Battle of San Jacinto. This 14-minute video lesson, recorded on location at the San Jacinto Battleground, provides an engaging and detailed account of the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive conflict that ended the Texas Revolution on April 21, 1836. The video combines on-site narration, dynamic graphical representations of troop movements, historical maps, photographs, and aerial footage of both the battlefield and Monument to bring the story to life for students.
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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This ready-to-use classroom slideshow contains the warm-up exercise, 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. The slideshow includes a link to the video used in the lesson. 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 record their observations about William Henry Huddle’s famous painting depicting Santa Anna’s surrender to Houston and his army, and they predict how the image might relate to the day’s lesson.
In this exit ticket, students will complete three sentence stems about one important cause, one event, and one significant effect of the Battle of San Jacinto.
The Warm-up and Exit Ticket document includes two warm-ups on the front of the page and two exit tickets on the back of the page. This formatting reduces the number of copies needed, as teachers will cut each printed page in half. Each student will receive a half-page with the warm-up on the front and the exit on the back.
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Grade Level Work
In this printable assignment, students will take notes on key information about the Battle of San Jacinto presented in the video and answer multiple-choice and short, constructed response questions for comprehension and analysis. The short, constructed response questions provide sentence stems and answer options to guide student responses.
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In this printable assignment, students will take reduced notes on key information about the Battle of San Jacinto presented in the video and answer multiple-choice and short, constructed response questions for comprehension and analysis. The Multiple-choice questions have one answer option eliminated and the short, constructed response questions provide sentence stems and answer options to guide student responses.
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In this printable assignment, students will take notes on key information about the Battle of San Jacinto presented in the video and answer short, constructed response questions for comprehension and analysis.
Sources
Previews and links to sources referenced in this lesson.
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The Battle of San Jacinto
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Transcript of a Report on the Progress of the Texas Revolution April 14, 1836
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