Week 1

Grade 4 Social Studies – Western United States Piracy

1) Students will develop a deeper and clearer understanding of who pirates were, as well as terminology associated with piracy on the N. American West Coast

2) Students will be able to correctly apply pirate terminology to individuals and situations using evidence

Grade 4 – Social Studies – Interpreting Spanish Colonial Impacts on California

Students will explore the various historical events through multiple perspectives and interpret the associated impacts.

Grade 4 – Social Studies – Daily Life of the Mission

1) Describe the daily lives of the people, native and nonnative, who occupied the presidios, missions, ranchos, and pueblos.

2) Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts referring to the same whole.

Grades 4-6 – Social Studies – Understanding Perspectives and Culture Change in Spanish California

1) Students pose relevant questions about events they encounter in historical documents, eyewitness accounts, oral histories, letters, diaries, artifacts, photographs, maps, artworks, and architecture.

2) Students summarize the key events of the era they are studying and explain the historical contexts of those events.

Grades 4-6 – Social Studies – On a Mission: Exploring the Multiple Stories of California’s Missions

Students will understand that there were multiple narratives that played out in the mission period. Students will explore the relationship between soldiers (presidios), missionaries and Indians (missions), and colonists (pueblos) working in groups to research and analysis primary sources and other information.

On a Mission: Exploring the Multiple Stories of California’s Missions – Rubric

Grades 5-8 – Social Studies / English Language Arts – Mission Era Primary Sources for Linguistic Practice

1) Using primary source documents on California missions

2) Using Spanish adjectives and interrogative words to describe and ask questions about the images of the period

3) (English as a Second Language) Using English adjectives and interrogative words to describe and ask questions about the images of the period

 

Week 2

Grade 4 – Social Studies – Visual Arts – Art Across Cultures

Students will know about Spanish & Indian culture, art, resources.

Grade 4 – Social Studies – Introduction to the Spanish Mission Era’s Influence on the Daily Life of the California Indians through Images

Students will observe images of California Indians engaged in activities on Spanish missions. Students will describe how the missions influenced the Indian’s lifestyle by identifying clothing, instruments, tools, buildings, and other items that were not part of the California Indians way of life before they interacted with the Spanish missions.

Grade 5 – Social Studies – American Revolutions

Students will read, comprehend and analyze three primary document accounts of revolts occurring in the same time frame in three different areas of North America (i.e. California). Students will compare and contrast these three events.