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Exploring La Salle: French Territorial Claims and Conflicts with Spain

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In this project, students will research French exploration in Texas, focusing on La Salle and the territorial conflicts between France and Spain. The assignment includes creating a history book featuring La Salle's biography, details about Fort St. Louis, and an analysis of the conflict. Students will incorporate maps, pictures, and essential summaries that highlight the significance of exploration in the early 18th century. This history book will serve not only as a project but also as an educational tool to understand the complex history of French-Spanish territorial disputes.

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Exploring La Salle: French Territorial Claims and Conflicts with Spain

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  1. Objective • TSW identify La Salle and the conflicting territorial claims between France and Spain completing research in the computer lab and creating a history book.

  2. Warm-up • List at least three Spanish explorers? • What is the significance of 1519?

  3. French Exploration & La Salle History Book

  4. French Exploration • You will be researching French exploration in Texas. • You will create a history book.

  5. Your history book will include the following pages: • A biography of La Salle • Fort St. Louis • Territorial Conflict between Spain and France • Pictures and maps

  6. Instructions • On your desktop click on “My Computer” • Click on k-drive • Click on “Smith” • Click on “French Exploration History Book”

  7. History Book • A biography of La Salle • Date of birth • Place of birth • Summary of Early life • Summary of Attempts to expand France • Fort St. Louis • A summary of Fort St. Louis, what occurred there, how the French struggled, what happened to the fort. • Territorial Conflict between Spain and France • Summary of the conflict between Spain and France • Pictures and maps • Picture of La Salle (required) • Map of La Salle’s explorations (required) • Optional - Maps or pictures of Fort St. Louis, Native Americans French had contact with, artifacts, etc.)

  8. Websites • Biography of La Salle • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/326519/Rene-Robert-Cavelier-sieur-de-La-Salle • http://www.lsjunction.com/people/lasalle.htm • Fort St. Louis • http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/stlouis/ • Territorial claims between France and Spain • https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/nps01 (Start of the 9th paragraph. “Concern centered on the…) • Pictures and Maps • http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/stlouis/ • http://www.knowla.org/entry/858/ • http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/l/lasalle.shtml

  9. Overview • Friday September 27 - Introduce Assignment • Monday September 30 – Research and overview of assignments (rubric, instructions, acceptable websites) • Tuesday October 1 – Review French exploration with class discussion, notes, and construct history book. • Assignment due date: Monday October 7th at the beginning of class.

  10. Grading rubric

  11. Reflection • You will write a summary of La Salle and French Exploration. • La Salle was a French explorer who…. • The French explored …. • The Spanish and the French had conflict because ….

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