CONCEPT: Migration

UNIT TOPIC 1:

European Exploration

ARC 1:
Early Explorers Introduction: Race for the Empire

• 2012-13 Model Lesson: Race for the Empire
• Lesson Portfolio: Early Explorers: Race for the Empire
• Lesson Portfolio: Quest for Empire - interactive map notes
• Lesson Portfolio: Columbian Exchange: a Menu

ARC 2:
Spanish and French Exploration

• 2012-13 Model Lesson: Spanish and French in Texas
• Lesson Portfolio: Spanish and French Exploration in Texas
• Lesson Portfolio: La Salle's Expedition

 

Additional Resources

• Core Content Coaching Module
  • SS7_2nd6wks_CCC_Unit1 1213

 

• Portfolio of recommended resources for 2nd Six Weeks

UNIT TOPIC 2:

European Colonization in Texas

ARC 1:
Spanish Mission System in Texas

• 2012-13 Model Lesson: Birds-eye View: Mission
• Lesson Portfolio: Mission Architecture
• Lesson Portfolio: Simulation: Life in a Spanish Mission

ARC 2:
Anglo-European Colonization

• 2012-13 Model Lesson: Anglo Colonization
• Lesson Portfolio: Letters to Austin
• Lesson Portfolio: What is a Filibuster?
• Lesson Portfolio: Empresario Fair
• Lesson Portfolio: Comparing Constitutions

ARC 3:
End of Spanish Rule

• 2012-13 Model Lesson: End of Spanish Rule in Texas
• Lesson Portfolio: Mexican Independence and Spanish Influence
• Lesson Portfolio: Comparing Constitutions

 

Additional Resources

Core Content Coaching Module

• SS7_2nd6wks_CCC_Unit2

 

 

CONCEPT: Conflict and Change - The Texas Revolution

UNIT TOPIC 1:

Causes of the Texas Revolution

ARC 1:
Political Events leading to the Revolution

• 2012-13 Model Lesson: Road to Revolution
• Lesson Portfolio: Understanding the Law of April 6, 1830
• Lesson Portfolio: Mexican-Texan Talk-It-Out: Examining the
  Causes of the Texas Revolution

ARC 2:
Cultural Differences and the Texas Revolution

• 2012-13 Model Lesson: Cultural Differences and the Texas Revolution
• Lesson Portfolio: Texas Personalities and the Texas Revolution

 

Additional Resources

• Portfolio of recommended resources for 3rd Six Weeks
• Core Content Coaching module

 

 

UNIT TOPIC 2:

Texas Declaration of Independence

ARC 1:
Understanding the United States
Declaration of Independence

• 2012-13 Model Lesson: Understanding the US Declaration of Independence

 

ARC 2:
Analyzing the Texas Declaration of Independence

• 2012-13 Model Lesson: Analyzing the Texas Declaration of Independence
• Lesson Portfolio: Translating a Primary Source: Texas Declaration of Independence

 

UNIT TOPIC 3:

The Texas Revolution

ARC 1:
Military Events of the Texas Revolution

• 2012-13 Model Lesson: The Alamo - What were they thinking?
• Lesson Portfolio: Texas Revolution Graphic Organizer
• Lesson Portfolio: Dawn at the Alamo
• Lesson Portfolio: Painting - Battle of San Jacinto
• Lesson Portfolio: The Battle of San Jacinto
  

  {This Primary Source Adventure provided by
  The Portal for Texas History Resources4Educators web site}

ARC 2:
The Social Impact of the Texas Revolution

• 2012-13 Model Lesson: The Social Impact of the Texas Revolution
• Lesson Portfolio: The Runaway Scrape

 

Additional Resources

• Unit 3 Core Content Coaching module

 

CONCEPT: Power and Conflict

UNIT TOPIC 1: Manifest Destiny

ARC 1: American Progress

• Lesson Portfolio: American Progress painting anaylsis

 

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

• Portfolio of recommended resources for 4th Six Weeks
• Web Interactive, Gast's American Progress [JohnHorse.com]
  ( Provides options to magnify or run cursor over image and click to call up visual details.)
• Excerpts from George A. Croffut's explanatory text
  provided to market John Gast's 1872 lithograph American Progress.
• Unit 1_2 Core Content Coaching Module

 

 

UNIT TOPIC 2: Republic of Texas

ARC 1: Presidential Administrations

• Lesson Portfolio: Republic of Texas Presidential Debate [Portal to Texas History]

ARC 2: Annexation

• Lesson Portfolio: Annexation of Texas
• Lesson Portfolio: Immigration

Additional Resources for this Topic

• Portfolio of recommended resources for 4th Six Weeks
• Mirabeau B. Lamar Report Card
• The Annexation of Texas to the Union painting by Yena; Texas State Library & Archives

 

 

UNIT TOPIC 3: Mexican War

ARC 1: Mexican War

• Lesson Portfolio: Mapping the Mexican War
• Lesson Portfolio: San Patricio Battalion

 

Additional Resources for this Topic

• Portfolio of recommended resources for 4th Six Weeks
• PBS production, U.S.-Mexican War: 1846-1848
• San Patricio Battalion.pdf
• Unit 3_4_5_6 Core Content Coaching module

 

UNIT TOPIC 4: Civil War

ARC 1: Causes of the Civil War

• Lesson Portfolio: A Nation Divides

ARC 2: Texas Secedes

• Lesson Portfolio: Secession

ARC 2: The Civil War

• Lesson Portfolio: Annotated Map of the Civil War [Portal to Texas History]
• Lesson Portfolio: Letters from the Front

 

Additional Resources for this Topic

• Portfolio of recommended resources for 4th Six Weeks

 

UNIT TOPIC 5: Reconstruction

ARC 1: Reconstruction

• Lesson Portfolio: Effect of Reconstruction Plans on African Americans
• Lesson Portfolio: Freedmen's Communities in Austin
  [Austin Past & Present]

 

Additional Resources for this Topic

• Portfolio of recommended resources for 4th Six Weeks
• Reconstruction Era in Texas [TSHA's Digital Gateway to Texas History]

 

CONCEPT: Culture - African American Heritage Month

UNIT TOPIC 6: Black History Month

ARC 1: Famous African Texans

• Lesson Portfolio: Black History Month Research Quilt

 

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

• Portfolio of recommended resources for 4th Six Weeks
• Quilt Block Pattern library
• Langston Hughes' "I, Too, Sing America" [poets.org]
• Black History in Texas [UTs Center for Black Business History]
• African Americans in Texas [TSHA's Digital Gateway to Texas History]

 

 

CONCEPT: Rules and Rights -
Texas Government

UNIT TOPIC 1: History of the Texas Constitution

ARC 1: Different Constitutions of Texas

• Lesson Portfolio: Constitution at a Glance

 

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

• Core Content Coaching module.pdf

 

 

UNIT TOPIC 2:  Current State Government

ARC 1: Government Terminology

• Lesson Portfolio: Bringing Government Terms to Life

ARC 2: Branches of Government

• Lesson Portfolio: Branches of Government

ARC 3: Texas Bill of Rights and Amendments

• Lesson Portfolio: Know Your Rights

 

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

 

CONCEPT: Rules and Rights -
Local and Municipal Government

UNIT TOPIC 3: Local and Municipal Government

ARC 1: Levels of Government

• Lesson Portfolio: Levels of Government foldable

 

 

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

 

CONCEPT: Changes and Challenges -
The Late 19th Century

UNIT TOPIC 4: Cultures in Conflict

ARC 1: Conflicts Between Cultures

• Lesson Portfolio: Use of the Buffalo
• Lesson Portfolio: Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek
• Lesson Portfolio: Buffalo Soldiers

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

• Texas Buffalo Soldiers: Community Education Outreach Programs

UNIT TOPIC 5: Ranching and Farming

ARC 1: Cattle Kingdom

• Lesson Portfolio: Cowboys and Cattle Drives
• Lesson Portfolio: Texas Cattle Kingdom

ARC 2: Farming in Texas

• Lesson Portfolio: Cattle Ranching to Farming

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

UNIT TOPIC 6:  Reforms and the Progressive Movement

ARC 1: Business, Labor, and Social Reforms

• Lesson Portfolio: Reform Movements in Texas
• Lesson Portfolio: Moving Towards Reform

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

UNIT TOPIC 7: A New Century

ARC 1: Galveston and the 1900 Storm

• Lesson Portfolio: Galveston: Storm of the Century
• Lesson Portfolio: Storm of 1900

ARC 2: Oil Boom

• Lesson Portfolio: A Booming Industry - Oil in Texas

 

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

 

CONCEPT: Culture

UNIT TOPIC 8: Women’s History Month

ARC 1: Notable Women in Texas

• Lesson Portfolio: Notable Texas Women You Should Know

 

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

• AISD Social Studies Curriculum Web Resource, "Women's History"
• Great Texas Women website
• Download book of bios and photos, "Great Texas Women"

CONCEPT: Time of Transition -
Texas in the 20th Century

UNIT TOPIC 1: The 1910s and 1920s

ARC 1: The 1910s

• Lesson Portfolio: World War I Alliances
• Lesson Portfolio: End of the Great War and
  the Treaty of Versailles

ARC 2: The 1920s

• Lesson Portfolio: 1920's Slang

 

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

• Gr 7 C ore Content Coaching module 6th Six Wks.pdf

 

UNIT TOPIC 2:  The 1930s & 1940s

ARC 1: The 1930s

• Lesson Portfolio: The Great Depression
• Lesson Portfolio: So Long It's Been Good To Know Yuh

ARC 2: The 1940s

• Lesson Portfolio: WWII

Additional Resources for this Topic

• Life in the Civilian Conservation Corps lesson plan and slide show
  [The Portal to Texas History web site]
• Set of posters, "The Civilian Conservation Corps"
  [Created by UT Professor Dr. Martha Norkunas and students at the University of Texas. Includes "CCC in Texas" poster.]
• African-American experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps,
  National History Education Clearinghouse.
• PBS production, "The 1930s"[Teacher Resources]
• Veterans History Project

 

 

UNIT TOPIC 3:  The 1950s and The Cold War Era

ARC 1: The 1950s and the Cold War

• Lesson Portfolio: We Didn't Start the Fire
• Lesson Portfolio: American GI Forum
• Lesson Portfolio: Austin: A Town in Transition - Create a Mandala
  (Austin Past & Present)
  

 

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

UNIT TOPIC 4: The 1960s and 1970s

ARC 1: The 1960s

• Lesson Portfolio: The Times They Are A Changing -
  The Civil Rights Movement in Texas
• Lesson Portfolio: Special Interest Group Simulation
  (Austin Past & Present)
  

ARC 2: The 1970s

• Lesson Portfolio: Fort Wolters - Texas and the Vietnam War

Additional Resources for this Topic

 

[Optional Decades Project]
UNIT TOPIC 5: The Modern Era - 1980 to Present

ARC 1: The Modern Era

• Lesson Portfolio: The Decades Project
• Lesson Portfolio:  20th Century Research Project

 

Additional Resources for this Topic