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Have students research both American and Mexican views of the southward expansion

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Debate the virtues of interminable conquest

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View and compare historic maps and contemporary maps

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Students will select sides in the Mexican American War and debate the pros and cons of each side.

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Reflect and discuss on the experience of being pushed out from other parts of the classroom.

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Students will act out manifest destiny by moving westward and southward in the classroom, claiming and seizing what they will.

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"What have you heard about Mexico recently?"

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Have students read a story of the frontier and journal their observations with guiding questions. Student observations and explanations will lead up to the concept of manifest destiny.

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Finish "Two Views on Texas" worksheet

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Teacher will play videos about the opposing views on Texas and how the annexation of Texas was viewed as an American act of aggression against the Mexican government

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Begin "Two Views on Texas" worksheet comparing the American view of Texas as a sovereign nation with the Mexican view of Texas as a territory

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Students will brainstorm potential products that were available during this period and whether or not they would be attractive to Mexican consumers. Students will answer the question, "why does their purchasing of American produced goods" matter in line with the concept of Manifest Destiny?

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Teacher will play video about the economic "conquest" of the Mexican population in the Southwestern US
Teacher will lead a class wide discussion about the duality of economic and military conquest in the US expanding further into NM and CA

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Classwide discussion about how the US arrived at westward expansion through the previous centuries - was it militarily focused, economically focused, or otherwise?

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Classwide comparing and contrasting the role of the European Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans as portrayed in the videos

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Videos about the movement of people westward and southward in the US
Viewing worksheet

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Teacher explains the concept of "Manifest Destiny"