NOV12 TX Declaration of Independence and TX Constitution

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Social Studies

Science of Reading

Teacher Facing
November 12, 2024

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Materials

Social Studies

SoR

Student:
● Quizziz

● ISN Notebook

Student:
● Student Activity Page
● Whiteboard

Teacher:
● Slide Deck

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LO: SWBAT identify the purposes and
explain the importance of the Texas
Declaration of Independence and the
Texas Constitution.

DOL: SW identify the purposes and explain the
importance of the Texas Declaration of Independence
and the Texas Constitution in at least 1 of 2 questions.
SST.4.13A Identify the purposes and explain the importance of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Texas Constitution. NOV12

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Lesson Vocabulary

dictator

delegate

tyranny

a ruler with total power
over a country that doesn't
answer to the people

Someone who represents
other people

cruel and oppressive
government or rule

Match

Match the following vocabulary to its definition.

• dictator

• tyrant

• delegate

a ruler who does not listen

a ruler who is oppressive and cruel

Someone who represents other people

• a ruler who does not listen

• a ruler who is oppressive and cruel

• Someone who represents other people

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Real World Connection:
Some dictators are not
easy to overthrow.

SST.4.13A Identify the purposes and explain the importance of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Texas Constitution. NOV12

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Open Ended

If you were a delegate, what kind of delegate would you be? I would be a _______ delegate because ______.

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The Texas Revolution Begins

★ 1833, México elected Antonio

López de Santa Ana

★ Had Stephen F. Austin

arrested

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Texas Declaration of Independence

★ Signed on March 2, 1836

★ A document that announced Texas'

separation from Mexico

★ Written by a group of Texans who wanted

freedom from Mexican rule

★ Similar to the United States Declaration of

Independence

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Purposes of the Texas Declaration of

Independence

★ Texas wanted to be independent

★ Complaints against the Mexican government

★ Declare Texas as a free and independent republic

★ Gain support from other countries and settlers

Why do you think it is important for Texas to declare independence?
I think it is important for Texas to declare independence because…

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Texas Declaration of Independence

Word Bank: education, representation, fair, Quartering,

8. It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe

guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen. This means the government court system was not _____________.

9. It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources, (the public

domain;) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the

continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self government. This means the government did not provide proper ____________.

10. It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny, thus

trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizen, and rendering the military superior to the civil power. This means the

_____________ Act was not fair, or safe at all.

11. It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their

lives from the seat of government, thus depriving us from the fundamental political right of representation. This means

_______________ was not fair for the people.

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Texas Declaration of Independence cont …

12. It has demanded the surrender of a number of our citizens, and ordered military detachments to seize
and carry them into the interior for trial, in contempt of the civil authorities, and in defense of the laws and the
Constitution. This means that people were arrested unfairly.

13. It has made piratical attacks upon our commerce by commissioning foreign desperadoes, and authorizing

them to seize our vessels and convey the property of our citizens to far distant parts for confiscation. This
means that the government was not protecting them against the natives.

14. It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the
support of a nation National religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries,
rather than the glory of the true and living God. This means it denied the right to practice their own
________________.

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HOT Question: What is
something important you
would like to declare
everyday?

SST.4.13A Identify the purposes and explain the importance of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Texas Constitution. NOV12

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Texas Constitution

★ First adopted in 1845 when Texas

joined the United States

★ The highest law in Texas

★ Outlines the structure and function of

Texas government

★ Current version was adopted in 1876,

with many amendments since then

Multiple Choice

When was the Texas Declaration of Independence signed and announced its separation from Mexico. The Texas Declaration of Independence was signed in ...

• 2019

• 1999

• 1846

• 1836

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The New Republic

★ Henry Smith was the first American

governor of Texas

★ Stephen F. Austin is known as the

Father of Texas

★ Sam Houston commanded the

Texas army

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Why were both the Texas Declaration of
Independence and the Texas Constitution
important for Texas? Word Bank: independence, freedeom, protection, order

The Texas Declaration of Independence and
the Texas Constitution important for Texas
are important because…

DOL

You have ten minutes this test is timed. You have two attempts. You get to keep your highest score.

Go to Canvas Social Studies you will see your DOL there. Complete it. When you finish you may begin BRAIN POP Plot.