7^th Grade Texas History
Mrs. Clarice Pink 
Texas History and ELA teacher
cpink@stmarys-temple.org
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Purpose: A survey of Texas History, students will understand and understand the major eras in Texas history, describe their defining characteristics, and explain why historians divide the past into eras, including Natural Texas and Its People; Age of Contact; Spanish Colonial; Mexican National; Revolution and Republic; Early Statehood; Texas in the Civil War and Reconstruction; Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads; Age of Oil; Texas in the Great Depression and World War II; Civil Rights and Conservatism and Contemporary Texas.
Measurable Learning Outcomes:
Create an argument and higher thinking, through the use of historical evidence.
Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources.
Analyze the effects ofTexas with historical, social, political, economic, and cultural forces through Texas history.
 
Foundational Component Area: Language, Philosophy, Culture
Critical Thinking Skills: To include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, debate, analysis, and evaluation of information.
Communication Skills: To include effective development, interpretation, and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication. Strong use of primary source understanding.
Social Responsibility: To include intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively with one another.
Personal Responsibility: To include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences of ethical decision making and understanding.
 
Students will understand that historical events, influence, and events. The student is expected to:
1ANatural Texas and its people land study with an understanding of geographic terms and concepts. What Geography is? The relationship between humans and their environment, Early Maps of Texas.Use of Vocabulary activities with terms. Weather and climate.
1B Texas landforms, use of graphs, charts, and tables. Statistics structure of the population of Texas using concepts such as growth rate and age distribution. Organization and interpretation from information from outlines, reports, debate, and visuals
2A Through Geography trace characteristics of various natural and agricultural resource native to Texas, Economics, energy resources, regions Texas cities, Mountains and Basins trade, and Geography.
2B Analyze the historical background of various societies. Texas Native Americans, Spanish Colonial period, the Spanish Conquest, the age of contact, Conflicts of Empires evaluate relationships between past conflicts and current conditions.
3A Branches of Geography physical and human geography, Natural Environment Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying relationships, compare and contrast, finding the main idea summarizing, making generalizations and predictions and drawing conclusions, based on focused review and understanding of information in the section.
4AStudy of Texas native people, study of population, geography, group cultures, group practices and beliefs. Features common to all societies and differences and changes over time. Global connections are making cultural exchange trade and a cooperative Texas community and the world community.
 
Classroom Rules
Respect yourself and others.
Use appropriate language and volume at the right time.
Listen to and follow all instructions.
Excellence only: come prepared to learn.
Stay seated unless you have permission to move around the room.
 
SMCS Grading Policy
 
A    90%-100%       
B    80%-90%       
C    75%-79%       
D    70%-74%       
F    69% or below
 
HIST Grading Policy
Tests/Papers 40% 
Quizzes/Projects 30% 
Homework 20% 
Conduct/Participation 10%
TOTAL – 100%