Texas TEKS 2.2.A
The Standard
identify contributions of historical figures, including Thurgood Marshall, Irma Rangel, and Theodore Roosevelt, who have influenced the state and nation
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students name each person and describe one action that made a difference. They connect Marshall to civil rights, Rangel to Texas leadership and education, and Roosevelt to conservation and national leadership.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly match each figure with a contribution and explain who benefited. They can use a picture, short text, or fact card as evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse Thurgood Marshall with Martin Luther King Jr. or Theodore Roosevelt with Franklin Roosevelt. They may think Irma Rangel was a national leader rather than a Texas lawmaker.
How to Assess It
- Give students the three names and ask them to write one contribution beside each. Then have them circle one and explain its effect in a sentence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Students match portrait cards, action cards, and effect cards for Marshall, Rangel, and Roosevelt, then explain each completed set.
Ask, "Which person changed people's lives most directly?" and have students defend their choice with two facts.
Play Who Am I by reading contribution clues while students hold up the matching figure's name card.
Students examine a school, courthouse, and park photograph, then connect each place to Rangel, Marshall, or Roosevelt.
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