Hearne ISD
Course: Texas History
Unit: Spanish Colonial/Mexican National
TEKS
Guiding Questions &
Specificity
Social Studies
Assessment
Designated Six Weeks: Second
Days to teach:
Vocabulary
Instructional Strategies
(1) History. The student understands traditional historical points of reference in Texas history
Mission system
(A) identify the major
Explain how Spain used the
Explain the
eras in Texas history,
mission system to extend
defining
describe their defining
their influence in Texas.
characteristics of
characteristics, and
the Spanish
explain why historians
Colonial era.
divide the past into eras,
including Natural Texas
and its People; Age of
Contact; Spanish
Colonial;
ELPS 1A, 1B, 1F, 1G,
1H, 2D, 2E, 5D
Assess the understanding
of the mission system by
creating a cause and
effect chart
(1) History. The student understands traditional historical points of reference in Texas history
(B) apply absolute and
Explain the significance of
ELPS 4J, 4K, 5A, 5E,
relative chronology
1718, 1821, 1718, 1757.
5F, 5G
through the sequencing
Explain the sequencing
of significant
of events in the Spanish
individuals, events, and
Colonial era using a
time periods;
timeline
(1) History. The student understands traditional historical points of reference in Texas history
ELPS 2F, 3J, 4D, 4E, 4F
(C) explain the
Explain the significance of
Why is the year
Use illustrations to show
significance of the
1718.
1718 important
an understanding of the
following dates: 1519,
to Texas history?
founding of San Antonio
mapping of the Texas
coast and first mainland
Spanish settlement;
1718, founding of San
Antonio;
(2) History. The student understands how individuals, events, and issues through the Mexican National Era shaped the history of Texas.
Resources/
Weblinks
Hearne ISD
Social Studies
Course: Texas History
Unit: Spanish Colonial/Mexican National
TEKS
Guiding Questions &
Specificity
(C) identify important
events and issues related
to European colonization
of Texas, including the
establishment of Catholic
missions, towns, and
ranches, and individuals
such as Fray Damián
Massanet, José de
Escandón, Antonio
Margil de Jesús, and
Francisco Hidalgo;
Explain the importance of
Corpus Christi de la Ysleta,
San Francisco de los Tejas,
Spanish establish San
Antonio de Valero, Fray
Damian Massanet, and
Alonso de Leon.
Explain how missions were
established to convert the
Native Americans to
Catholicism.
Assessment
What Spanish
settlement was
established as a
half-way station
between the
missions in East
Texas and New
Spain (Mexico)?
What Spanish
settlement was
established as a
half-way station
between the
missions in East
Texas and New
Spain (Mexico)?
Designated Six Weeks: Second
Days to teach:
Vocabulary
Instructional Strategies
Mission
Presidio
Ranchos
Revolt
ELPS 2A, 2G, 2H, 4A,
4B, 4G, 5A, 5E
Write a journal entry
about what life was like
for Native Texans living
in Spanish missions
Resources/
Weblinks
Shared Folder:
Architecture of Spanish
Missions
Missions of San Antonio
Mission Concepcion
Mission Espada
Mission San Jose
Mission San Antonio de
Valero
Mission San Juan
Capistrano
Mission project
Life in a Spanish Mission
simulation
Biography links:
Fray Damian Massanet
Jose de Escandon
Antonio Margil de Jesus
(10) Geography. The student understands the effects of the interaction between humans and the environment in Texas during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
(A) identify ways in
Explain how missions
What were the
ELPS: 2F, 3J, 4D, 4D,
which Texans have
established systems of
positive effects
4E, 4F
adapted to and modified
farming and ranching,
of the mission
Use a Tchart to
the environment and
spread Spanish culture and
system?
demonstrate an
analyze the positive and
language, and converted the
What were the
understanding of the
negative consequences of Native Americans, but did
negative effects
positive and negative
the modifications
not adequately populate
of the mission
effects of the mission
Texas.
system?
system.
(1) History. The student understands traditional historical points of reference in Texas history.
ELPS: 1C, 2E, 3J,
(A) identify the major
Explain the Constitutional
Identify and
eras in Texas history,
government of Mexico.
describe the
describe their defining
defining
Student created graphic
characteristics, and
characteristics of
organizers such as a
explain why historians
the Mexican
circle graph describing
divide the past into eras,
National era.
the era.
including Natural Texas
and its People; Age of
Contact; Spanish
Hearne ISD
Course: Texas History
Unit: Spanish Colonial/Mexican National
TEKS
Guiding Questions &
Specificity
Social Studies
Assessment
Designated Six Weeks: Second
Days to teach:
Vocabulary
Instructional Strategies
Resources/
Weblinks
Colonial; Mexican
National;
(1) History. The student understands traditional historical points of reference in Texas history.
ELPS: 1A, 4D, 4F
(B) apply absolute and
Describe the Mexican
Create a timeline
relative chronology
National Era.
showing the
through the sequencing
significant events
Use a book walk to
of significant individuals,
and individuals
activate prior knowledge
events, and time periods
of the Mexican
National
Era
(1) History. The student understands traditional historical points of reference in Texas history.
ELPS: 1C
(C) explain the
Explain the significance of
Why is the year
significance of the
Moses Austin and Stephen
1821 significant?
following dates: 1519,
F. Austin.
Student will create a tmapping of the Texas
shirt commemorating the
coast and first mainland
year 1821.
Spanish settlement;
1718, founding of San
Antonio; 1821,
independence from
Spain;
(2) History. The student understands how individuals, events, and issues through the Mexican National Era shaped the history of Texas.
ELPS: 5A, 5C, 5F,
(D) identify the
Explain the significance of
Explain how the
Cede
On shared folder:
individuals, issues, and
the Mexican Revolution,
Constitution of
Republic
Quickwrite
events related to Mexico
Mexican Federal
1824 contributed Diplomat
Comparing constitutions
Student created written
becoming an
Constitution of 1824, Texas
to the Texas
Filibusters
conversations between
independent nation and
Constitutional Convention
Revolution.
federalism
Jose Gutierrez de Lara bio
an individual in favor of
its impact on Texas,
of 1836, and the
Siege
Spanish rule and an
including Texas
Constitution of 1824.
Battle of Medina
individual in favor of
Identify reasons
involvement in the fight
Mexican Independence
why Mexico
for independence, José
Constitution of 1824
wanted to
Gutiérrez de Lara, the
declare
Class debate over
Battle of Medina, the
State Colonization Law of
independence
whether or not Mexico
Mexican federal
1825
from Spain.
should declare
Constitution of 1824, the
independence from
merger of Texas and
Spain
Coahuila as a state, the
Hearne ISD
Course: Texas History
Unit: Spanish Colonial/Mexican National
TEKS
Guiding Questions &
Specificity
Social Studies
Assessment
Designated Six Weeks: Second
Days to teach:
Vocabulary
Instructional Strategies
Resources/
Weblinks
State Colonization Law
of 1825, and slavery;
Student created graphic
organizer comparing and
contrasting the Mexican
constitution of 1824 with
the US Constitution
(2) History. The student understands how individuals, events, and issues through the Mexican National Era shaped the history of Texas.
ELPS: 3C, 3D, 3E, 3F,
(E) identify the
Explain the significance of
Explain the
Financial panic
On shared folder:
3G, 3H, 3I
contributions of
Moses Austin, Stephen F.
importance of
Depression
Empresarios wanted
Austin, Erasmo Seguin,
Austin’s portrait OPTIC
significant individuals,
Stephen F.
Cotton gins
Martin De Leon, and Green
including Moses Austin,
Austin’s
Land titles
Student created
DeWitt.
Stephen F. Austin,
contributions to
Militia
Letters to Austin lesson
presentation on the
Erasmo Seguín, Martín
the settlement of
empresario
importance and impact
De León, and Green
Texas.
Biography links:
of the empresarios.
DeWitt, during the
Moses Austin:
Mexican settlement of
Texas; and
Stephen F. Austin
Erasmo Seguin
Martin de Leon
Green De Witt
2) History. The student understands how individuals, events, and issues through the Mexican National Era shaped the history of Texas.
ELPS: 1H, 2D, 2E, 5D
(F) contrast Spanish,
Explain the settlement and
Compare and
Mexican and Anglo
purpose of the Spanish,
contrast the
Anglo, and Mexicans.
purposes for and
Anglo, Mexican
Use a Venn diagram to
methods of settlement in
and Spanish
compare and contrast the
Texas
purposes and
purposes for settlement.
methods of
settlement
7.11 Geography. The student understands the characteristics, distribution and migration of population in Texas in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
ELPS: 2A, 2G, 2H
TEA Lighthouse lesson on
(A) Analyze why
Explain the push pull factors Why did the
Plantations, Free
Summarize the reasons
Immigration to Texas
immigrant groups cam to of immigrant groups in
empresarios
enterprise, Barter
why empresarios came
Texas and where they
Texas.
choose to settle
Exports, Imports
to Texas.
settled.
in Texas?
sawmills
Hearne ISD
Course: Texas History
Unit: Spanish Colonial/Mexican National
TEKS
Guiding Questions &
Specificity
Social Studies
Assessment
Designated Six Weeks: Second
Days to teach:
Vocabulary
Instructional Strategies
Resources/
Weblinks
7.11 Geography. The student understands the characteristics, distribution and migration of population in Texas in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
(B) analyze how
Explain the contribution of
Describe the
Cultural activities and
immigration and
the Europeans, Spanish,
ways in which
celebrations
migration to Texas in the Southerners, and American
the immigrants’
Cultural heritage
settlers.
culture
Spanish influence
19th, 20th, and 21st
centuries have influenced
influenced Texas Ayuntamiento
Texas
culture.
Vaqueros jacales
(19) Culture. The student understands the concept of diversity within unity in Texas.
1E, 1C, 3B, 4C, 5B
(C) identify examples of
Identify the names of
List some
Use list-sort-label to
Spanish influence and the counties, cities, rivers, and
vocabulary that
identify words with
influence of other
landforms.
we use that has
Spanish roots.
cultures on Texas such as
Spanish roots.
place names, vocabulary, Explain the cultural
religion, architecture,
activities of the Spanish and
food and the arts.
how they influenced the
establishment of Texas.