Alvarado Intermediate School
Teacher:
Jennings
Grade & Subject:
4th SS
Week of: Nov 10-14
Unit & Essential Questions: Unit 5
What qualities of leadership did successful empresarios exhibit?
What was the impact of empresarios on the colonization of Texas?
What were the geographic factors that influenced where colonists
settled in Texas?
TEKS/Learning Objectives:
STAAR Support (non-tested content areas):
4.2E
Identify the accomplishments and explain the economic
motivations and impact of significant impresarios, including
Stephen F. Austin and Martín de León, on the settlement of
Texas.
Reading Biographies
4.6A Apply geographic tools, including grid systems, legends,
symbols, scales, and compass roses, to construct and interpret
maps.
4.8B
Describe and explain the location and distribution of
various towns and cities in Texas, past and present.
Objectives:
We will identify the accomplishments and impact of Stephen F
Austin and Martin de Leon.
We will demonstrate our knowledge of American colonization of
Texas.
Test taking strategies
Academic Vocabulary of Instruction:
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Customized Learning:
colony
empresario
land grant
A
MONDAY
Engage
Explore
Explain
Elaborate/Extend
Essential
Question(s) &
Hook
Instruction and Mini-Lesson
Guided Practice:
Independent Practice
Organize students Organize students into pairs.
into small groups of
3 to 4 students.
Distribute the Handout: Stephen
F. Austin and the Handout:
Display pictures of Martin de Leon.
items that describe
a specific job.
Also distribute the Handout:
Students speculate Empresario Trifold.
on the job related
to the items,
Students read the information on
making a list of
Stephen F. Austin and Martin de
their ideas.
Leon from the handouts and
other sources and use that
Conduct a visual
information to complete the
analysis of the
trifold.
pictures to find
clues about that
The information that will be
person’s life.
gathered about Stephen F.
(I do, we do, you do)
Evaluate/Assess
After students have
seen all the
pictures and listed
their “guesses,”
they participate in a
brief discussion
and explain their
reasoning.
Austin and Martin de Leon
should include the following:
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Name of their colony
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Type of people that
settled their colony
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When they settled their
colony
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Two (2) fact about their
colony
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A reason why they are
an important empresario
Distribute the Handout:
Empresario.
Facilitate a discussion where
students draw on what they have
learned about individual
empresarios to make inferences
and draw conclusions to
complete the Handout:
Empresario. Use this as an
opportunity to reinforce social
studies concepts, including
economic, social, political, and
geographic factors that
influenced where colonists
settled in Texas.
TUESDAY
Distribute the Handout:
Ribbon. (Or students
draw their own)
Inside the handout,
students write the name
of their favorite
empresario and what
they feel is the greatest
accomplishment of the
empresario.
Organize students into
pairs.
Provide students a set of
Handout: Colonization
Dates (Stephen F. Austin
Cards).
Students organize the
events chronologically.
(Teacher will need to check
for accuracy.)
Students share their
ideas with a partner.
Students access their
textbook and other
Gather information about classroom resources to
how many students
check their predictions and
chose each empresario. gather other information
about the empresarios.
Students participate in a
discussion where
Students then use the
students support their
information on the cards to
reasoning with evidence. create a timeline using the
Handout: Colonization
Encourage students to
Timeline.
address the guiding
questions and Key
Students match the event
Understanding.
with the date and then
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Leadership is
draw a visual.
important to successful
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1821- Stephen F.
settlements.
Austin is approved by the
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What qualities of Mexican government to
leadership did successful settle 300 families in
empresarios exhibit?
Texas.
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What was the
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1824- The Old
impact of empresarios on Three Hundred, 200
the colonization of
Mexican families, and other
Texas?
colonists begin settling
Texas.
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1825- Mexico
passes colonization laws
that allow foreign
immigrants to move to
Texas.
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1830- Almost
30,000 people have settled
Texas but settling Texas
will soon come to an end.
WEDNESDAY
Father Hidalgo reading
passage and questions.
Unit 5 review
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Unit 5 Test
Reteach
Retest