Texas TEKS 7.2.F
The Standard
- 7.2
- History. The student understands how individuals, events, and issues through the Mexican National Era shaped the history of Texas. The student is expected to:
contrast Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo purposes for and methods of settlement in Texas.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify why Spanish officials, Mexican leaders, and Anglo settlers wanted communities in Texas. They compare missions and presidios, empresario land grants, and farms, ranches, or plantations.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can organize each group’s goals and methods in a clear comparison. They support each contrast with an accurate example, such as a mission, empresario contract, or land grant.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume all three groups settled Texas for the same reasons. They may treat empresarios as only Anglo, confuse Mexican settlement with the mission system, or overlook slavery in Anglo settlement.
How to Assess It
- Give students a three-column exit ticket labeled Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo. They must list one purpose and one method for each, then write one contrast sentence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Sort twelve purpose, method, and evidence cards into Spanish, Mexican, or Anglo columns, then defend two placements with a partner.
Write which settlement plan most changed Texas and support your claim with one policy and one geographic example.
Play a three-round clue game where teams identify the group, name the purpose, and explain the settlement method.
Use a current Texas map to locate San Antonio, Nacogdoches, and San Felipe, then connect each place to a settlement method.
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Related Standards
- 7.10.A
identify why immigrant groups came to Texas and where they settled
- 7.18.C
identify examples of Spanish influence and the influence of other cultures on Texas such as place names, vocabulary, religion, architecture, food, and the arts
- 4.12.B
compare characteristics of the Spanish colonial government and the early Mexican governments in Texas.
- 4.2.C
explain when, where, and why the Spanish established settlements and Catholic missions in Texas as well as important individuals
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