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Students analyze 13 documents (4 images and 9 text), answer 13 historical context questions, complete a sorting chart, and write a DBQ essay to review the Texas Republic. There are 5 essay prompts for students to choose from (one allows for the class or...

Students review (or learn about) the different people, events, trends, laws, treaties, and more from the events on the Texas Frontier through Texas' involvement in WW2 by making a 20 item timeline. The timeline incorporates political cartoons, news...

Texas History students will complete 36 task cards to review the people and events on the Texas Frontier after such as Buffalo Soldiers, the Red River Campaign, Adobe Walls, Quanah Parker, the slaughter of the buffalo, fighting Native Americans in West...

Texas History students will review the early exploration of Texas by completing 28 task cards and completing a map activity. The questions are a mix of short answer, true/false, and multiple choice (7 questions are about images). This can either be a...

Texas History students will review significant people and events from a semester or year by analyzing 34 maps and images (photos and political cartoons). There are specific questions for 18 images/maps and 5 prompts for students to respond to for 16...

Students learn about, or review, Texas climate and geography by reading a passage and filling in 46 blanks with correct vocabulary, answering a three-part question, and completing a 10 task map activity based on the information from the passage and prior...

Students will read a brief letter written by Santa Anna in 1874 regarding the events at the Alamo. The letter is a response to a request for additional information on the Battle from 1836. They will answer 9 questions, complete two tasks, and analyze two...

Texas History students review, or learn about, the people/events/trends/etc of the Progressive Era (including but not limited to prohibition, segregation, education, and the Galveston Hurricane of 1900) by creating a collection of newspaper front pages...

Texas History students will complete 30 task cards to review World War I (Texas during WW1, WW1 in Texas). The questions are multiple choice, short answer, and image analysis covering the Stinson sisters, Pancho Villa, the Zimmerman Note (Telegram), the...

Students review key people and events related to the the early inhabitants of Texas, exploration, the Mexican War of Independence, and Colonization/the Old 300 by matching 20 historical images to a caption or dialogue exchange. This includes a teacher...

Texas History students will read and analyze 9 quotes regarding Texas secession prior to the Civil War by summarizing them, determining if the quote is for or against secession, and answering 14 questions. The quotes and points of view come from 3...

Texas History students review the different people and events from the Texas Republic by creating a pamphlet highlighting 6 people, events, challenges, successes, etc. There are 11 expectations for students to fulfill while balancing historical accuracy...