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Standards from the blueprint/ curriculum map
SS.8.A.4.1 Examine the causes, course, and consequences of United States westward expansion
and its growing diplomatic assertiveness (War of 1812, Convention of 1818, Adams-Onis
Treaty, Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine, Trail of Tears, Texas annexation, Manifest
Destiny, Oregon Territory, Mexican American War/Mexican Cession, California Gold Rush,
Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act, Gadsden Purchase).
SS.8.A.4.2 Describe the debate surrounding the spread of slavery into western territories and
Florida. Examples may include, but are not limited to, abolitionist movement, Ft. Mose, Missouri
Compromise, Bleeding Kansas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850.
SS.8.A.4.3 Examine the experiences and perspectives of significant individuals and groups
during this era of American History. Examples may include, but are not limited to, Lewis and
Clark, Sacajawea, York, Pike, Native Americans, Buffalo Soldiers, Mexicanos, Chinese
immigrants, Irish immigrants, children, slaves, women, Alexis de Tocqueville, political parties.
SS.8.A.4.4 Discuss the impact of westward expansion on cultural practices and migration
patterns of Native American and African slave populations.
SS.8.A.4.8 Describe the influence of individuals on social and political developments of this era
in American History. Examples may include, but are not limited to, Daniel Boone, Tecumseh,
Black Hawk, John Marshall, James Madison, Dolly Madison, Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun,
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, James Polk, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William
Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Horace Mann, Dorothea Dix, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner
Truth, and Harriet Tubman.
Unit End Product
Which economic, social, and political factors had the greatest influence on Americans’ desire to achieve manifest destiny?
After reading U.S. History.org's articles on manifest destiny, write a multi-paragraph essay in which you argue the economic, social,
and political factors that had the greatest influence on Americans’ desire to move west. Support your position with evidence from the text/
discussions.
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Monday, February 8, 2016
Chapter 13
Objective: Today, I will examine the culture of the American southwest, in order to determine which
culture groups made the greatest and most lasting impact on that area of our country.
Essential Question How did westward expansion change the geography of the nation and demonstrate the
determination of its people?
Day One / Two – Preview the chapter and complete section one
Section 1 The West 444 – 447
Bell work: Complete the Map Master Skills Activity on page 445
Vocabulary: frontier, land grant, ranchero, expansion
Gradual Release
I Do- Review CBC
We Do- Review Bell Work
You Do1. Read Mission San Luis Rey at the top of page 444
2. Read – Mission in the Southwest on page 446 and answer the critical thinking question
3. Cornell Notes- Students will take Cornell Notes on pages 444-447/ Make sure you include a
summary.
4. Answer the objective
5. Answer the essential questions
Homework: Finish Cornell Notes with a full summary of what you learned.
Materials: textbook,
Standards: SS8A41 Examine U.S. westward expansion and Manifest Destiny SS8A44 Discuss the
impact of westward expansion on Natives and African slaves SS8G42 Use geographic terms and tools to
analyze the effects of migration SS8G46 Use maps to describe boundaries and governance throughout
American history
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Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Objective: Today, we will examine the idea of Manifest Destiny in order to determine how the American
Southwest became an area rich in multiculturalism.
Bell Work: This theory that Americans are special is called “American Exceptionalism.” It’s this
idea that America has had such a unique history and has become so powerful that there’s
something really special about it.
What do you think about this theory?
Essential Question: Would you have supported America’s Manifest Destiny? Use your notes from
yesterday and today’s primary source to justify your answer.
Ticket Out: How did Manifest Destiny help Americans justify their desire to extend the United States to
the Pacific Ocean?
Homework- Students will read pages 448-452 and answer questions 1-6 on page 453
Students should be prepared to answer the following tomorrow:
1. Explain how traders and fur trappers helped open the West.
2. List the reasons pioneers traveled along the Oregon Trail and describe the hardships they faced.
3. Discuss the issues for women, Native Americans and new settlers in the West.
Gradual Release
I Do – Review CBC and Bell Work
We Do: As a group, we will analyze the O’Sullivan Picture and the Three Little Pigs Story
You Do-
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1. Students will compare and contrast the views expressed in the story and picture
2. Students will answer the following question under their double bubble:
Would you have supported America’s Manifest Destiny? Use your notes from yesterday and
today’s primary source to justify your answer.
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1. PROJECT THIS IMAGE ON YOUR SCREEN
2. TEACHER WILL LEAD CLASS IN AN ANALYSIS OF THE PICTURE
Guided Questions:
Identify everything in the picture. Who do you think the Angel represent? What can you infer from this
image? What can you predict? What conclusions can you draw? What do you think angel is saying?
What does this mean for the Native Americans?
READ THE STORY TOGETHER AS A CLASS
The Three Little Politically Correct Pigs
The Three Little Politically Correct Pigs
exerpt from J.F.Garner's book "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories."
Once there were three little pigs who lived together in mutual respect and in harmony with their
environment. Using materials that were indigenous (natural) to the area, they each built a beautiful house.
One pig built a house of straw, one a house of sticks, and one a house of dung, clay, and creeper vines
shaped into bricks and baked in a small kiln. When they were finished, the pigs were satisfied with their
work and settled back to live in peace and self-determination.
But their idyll (carefree and happy lifestyle) was soon shattered. One day, along came a big, bad wolf
with expansionist ideas. He saw the pigs and grew very hungry, in both the physical and ideological
sense. When the pigs saw the wolf, they ran into the house of straw. The wolf ran up to the house and
banged on the door, shouting, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!" The pigs shouted back, "Your gunboat
tactics hold no fear for pigs defending their homes and culture."
But the wolf wasn't to be denied what he thought was his manifest destiny. So he huffed and he puffed
and he blew down the house of straw. The frightened pigs ran to the house of sticks, with the wolf in hot
pursuit. Where the house of straw had stood, other wolves bought up the land and started a banana
plantation. At the house of sticks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, "Little pigs, little pigs,
let me in!" The pigs shouted, "Get out of here, you carnivorous, imperialistic oppressor!"
At this, the wolf chuckled condescendingly (snobby). He thought to himself: "They are so childlike in
their ways. It will be a shame to see them go, but progress cannot be stopped."
So the wolf huffed and puffed and blew down the house of sticks. The pigs ran to the house of bricks,
with the wolf close at their heels. Where the house of sticks had stood, other wolves built a time-share
condo resort complex for vacationing wolves, with each unit a fiberglass reconstruction of the house of
sticks, as well as native curio shops, snorkeling, and dolphin shows.
At the house of bricks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"
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This time in response, the pigs sang songs of solidarity and wrote letters of protest to the United Nations.
By now the wolf was getting angry at the pigs' refusal to see the situation from the carnivore's point of
view. So he huffed and he puffed, and huffed and puffed, the grabbed his chest and fell over dead of a
massive heart attack brought on from eating too many fatty foods.
The three little pigs rejoiced that justice had triumphed and did a little dance around the corpse of the
wolf. Their next step was to liberate their homeland. They gathered together a band of other pigs who had
been forced off their lands. Their new brigade of porcinistas attacked the resort complex with machine
guns and rocket launchers and slaughtered the cruel wolf oppressors, sending a clear signal to the rest of
the hemisphere not to meddle in their internal affairs. Then the pigs set up a model
socialist democracy with free education, universal health care, and affordable housing for everyone.
Please Note: The wolf in this story was a metaphorical construct. No
actual wolves were harmed in the writing of the story.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Section 3 Conflict with Mexico
Objective: How did the settling and annexation of Texas and the Mexican Cession impact American
foreign relations, politics and the growing sectionalism between North, South and West during the midnineteenth century?
Bell work: Read the red and blue words on pages 454-459, then make a prediction of how America
achieved its Manifest Destiny.
Vocabulary: Stephen Austin, dictatorship, siege, Sam Houston, annex, James K. Polk, cede, John C.
Fremont
Homework: After completing the questions in class, students will write a response to the following
statement- America was justified in its invasion of Mexico. Support or disprove that statement. Use at
least 3 examples from the textbook or online sources.
Essential Question: How did the fall of the Alamo help cause the cause of Texas Independence, even
though it was a defeat for the Texans? Do you think the U.S. was justified in declaring war with Mexico?
Ticket Out: What caused animosity between the Mexicans and the Americans? What did the U.S. win
after the war with Mexico?
Gradual Release
I Do – Review CBC
We Do – Review Bell Work
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You Do: Students will read pages 454-459 and answer the following questions:
Page 454 – Why it Matters
1. When did Mexico become an independent country?
2. What happened that same year with American traders?
3. What did growing tensions lead to between the Mexicans and the Americans?
Texans Win Independence
4. What did the Spanish governor of Texas give Moses Austin?
5. Who inherited the land, and what did he do?
6. When Mexico became an independent country, they agreed to honor Austin land claims. What
did he and all Americans moving to Mexico have to agree to..
7. Do you think that was a fair agreement? Explain
Growing Conflict
8. What were some of the differences between the Mexicans and the American Southerners that
were flooding into Texas?
9. What happened in 1830?
10. What did Americans continue to do?
11. As tensions increased, what did the Mexican government do?
Declaring Independence
12. What did American settlers want more of? Do you believe they were entitled to this?
13. What happened when Santa Ana became the leader of Mexico?
14. What did Stephen Austin urge Texans to do?
Texans at War
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How did Santa Ana respond to the Americans and Tejanos?
What is a siege?
What happened to the Americans and Tejanos at the Alamo?
What did Sam Houston do as a result of the Alamo?
What did Houston force Santa Ana to do?
Republic of Texas
20. What did Sam Houston become?
21. Why did Northerners oppose Texas becoming part of the United States?
Annexing Texas and Oregon
Election of 1844
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Who was nominated by the Whig Party?
What did that person hope to avoid?
What did the Democratic candidate call for?
What did James Polk demand from the British?
Annexation
26. What happened in 1845?
27. What did President Polk negotiate with the British?
Tensions with Mexico
28. Why didn’t Mexico recognize Texas independence?
29. What did the Mexican government claim was the southern boundary of Texas?
30. What did President Polk claim was the boundary between Texas and Mexico?
The Mexican American War
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What did the Mexican government need?
What did the United States want to buy from Mexico?
Did Mexico sell the land?
Where was General Zachary Taylor sent?
How did the Mexicans respond?
Opposition to War
36. How did the Mexican War cause problems between the Northern, Southern and Western sections
of our country?
Rebellion in California
37. What happened in California?
Invasion of Mexico
38. What happened when the United States invaded Mexico?
Achieving Manifest Destiny
39. How did the United States achieve its Manifest Destiny?
Explain how Texas became independent from Mexico. Summarize the main events of the MexicanAmerican War. Explain how the United States achieved Manifest Destiny.
Thursday, February 11, 2016/ Friday, February 12, 2016
Link to the movie- https://vimeo.com/64954890
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Objective: Today, we will watch a documentary about the Mexican American War.
Bell Ringer: What were the causes of the Mexican American War?
I Do – Review CBC
We Do- Review Bell Work
You Do- As you watch the movie, compare and contrast the Mexican and American point of view of
the war. Then answer the extended response question.
Essential Question:
What justification does Polk give for sending troops into the disputed territory? Could he have had an
ulterior motive?
Ticket Out:
What kind of emotions does Polk intend to evoke when he says “American blood has been shed on
American soil?”
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Name____________________________
Date_________
Chapter 13
Assignment:
As you watch the Mexican War, you will compare and contrast the point of view of Mexico and the
United States. At the end of the movie you will summarize both the Mexican and American points of
view. Then you will write your opinion of the war.
Mexican American War Movie
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American Point of View
Mexican Point of View