Lesson Plan: individual lesson
Bryan Callen
Objective:
Standard 9: Understands the United States territorial expansion between 1801 and
1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans.
Students will understand losses on both sides and the discrimination that followed the
war. They will be able to compare positions on a policy enacted after the end of the
Mexican-American War.
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This Land of Gold and Hope
The Foreign Miners' Tax Handout #1
The Foreign Miners' Tax Handout #2
Video Clip- “The Gold Rush: Who got left behind?”
Interactive Timeline Map
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Overview
Pass out and go over hand out 1
Timeline – end of war to treaty
The Gold Rush video
Read This Land of Gold and Hope
Split into two groups, each group chooses a leader and recorder.
o Team 1; prepare a case for your position against the foreign miner’s tax.
o Team 2, be prepared to rebuttal
Team 1 presentation
Team 2 rebuttal
Reconvene and prepare for opposite presentations
Team 2 presentation
Team 1 rebuttal
Assessment:
Teacher will pass out hand out for home work, which will be an assessment paper.
Bibliography
PBS. A Legacy of the War – The Gold Rush and the Foreign Miners’ Tax.
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/educators/gold_rush_miners_tax.html
PBS. This Land of Gold and Hope.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/three/goldandhope.htm
PBS. “The Gold Rush: Who got left behind?”
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/educators/gold_rush_miners_tax.html