Texas TEKS 8.2

8.2 is a TEKS knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.

• 8.2.A

  identify reasons for English, Spanish, and French exploration and colonization of North America

• 8.2.B

  compare political, economic, religious, and social reasons for the establishment of the 13 English colonies.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain why England, Spain, and France explored and settled parts of North America. They compare political, economic, religious, and social motives behind different English colonies. They support each motive with a specific example.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can connect Spanish settlement to wealth, missions, and empire, French settlement to trade and alliances, and English settlement to land, profit, religion, and power. They can compare colonies such as Jamestown and Massachusetts and explain how their founding motives differed.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may assume all European nations came for the same reasons. They may treat religious freedom as full tolerance, even when colonies favored one faith. They may also confuse temporary exploration with permanent colonization.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a four-box exit ticket. Ask them to name one supported motive each for Spain, France, and England, then compare Jamestown and Massachusetts using two categories.

1. 01

   Give pairs motive cards and colony cards to sort under political, economic, religious, or social headings, then require evidence for each match.

2. 02

   Ask students to write which motive most shaped Jamestown, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, or Georgia, using two facts to defend their choice.

3. 03

   Play a colony matching game where teams connect founding details, nations, colonies, and motives, earning a point only after explaining each match.

4. 04

   Have students compare a colonial recruitment notice with a modern job advertisement, then circle appeals to money, belief, status, or community.

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• 8.6

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