https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wnDpr9PMnc
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gnya-fOX4ZQknVmjvdxRhHeK8I4Ls_U8/view
Essential Questions
Let's have a press conference about our Period 4 Hero's. Choose a person to act out a press conference in which they try and figure out who they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrl6H5GAdCc&t=10s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1nVDi8bwSk
Here are some samples of thesis statements from our Mexican American DBQ responses. What do we think?
You will now work in groups of 3 to read and review your peer's responses to the DBQ we filled out before Thanksgiving. Be fair but be honest. Use the Rubric to grade and provide feedback. What did they do well? What do they need to fix up? How is their document analysis?
When you are done, take your peer feedback, and edit your responses and resubmit the updated DBQ.
Mexican American War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOCr_4N0RM0
Why did we go to war with Mexico? What were the long-term impacts? Were we justified in our efforts? What was the importance of Manifest Destiny and how did it play out through American Society? Work and finish the DBQ on this topic.
61. The Mexican War of 1846 was fought primarily to (A) avenge the slaughter of 186 Texans at the Alamo by Santa Anna’s Mexican force (B) drive the Spanish from Mexico and establish Mexican freedom once and for all (C) stop raids by Mexican “bandits” into U.S. territory in Texas and Arkansas (D) acquire California, New Mexico and disputed territory along Texas’ southern and western borders from Mexico (E) depose the Mexican dictator Santa Anna, and replace his regime with a democratically elected government friendly to the United States.
