NAME:

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SOCIAL STUDIES
(MISSIONS PROJECT)

Standards
Social Studies 4.2: Students describe the social, political, cultural, and economic life and
interactions among people of California from the pre-Columbian societies to the Spanish
mission and Mexican rancho periods.
(Understand and identify the major nations of California Indians; describe the Spanish exploration
and colonization of California, including the relationships among soldiers, missionaries, and
Indians; describe the mapping of, geographic basis of, and economic factors in the placement and
function of the Spanish missions; and understand how the mission system expanded the influence
of Spain and Catholicism throughout New Spain and Latin America; describe the daily lives of the
people, native and nonnative, who occupied the presidios, missions, ranchos, and pueblos; discuss
the role of the Franciscans in changing the economy of California from a hunter-gatherer economy
to an agricultural economy.

Reading Standards for Informational Text (Key Ideas and Details): 1. Refer to details and
examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences
from the text. (Craft and Structure) 5. Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology,
comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or
part of a text. (Integration of Knowledge and Ideas) 9. Integrate information from two texts on
the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

Speaking and Listening Standards: (Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas) 4. Report on a
topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts
and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an
understandable pace. 5. Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when
appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
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Assignment
1. Use a Double Bubble Map to compare and contrast two of the California missions on
a large chart paper.
a. You will be assigned a California mission at random and you may choose the other
California mission of your choice. However, if you choose two from the same area
(i.e. San Luis Rey de Francia and San Juan Capistrano, which are both southern
California missions) your emphasis must be on the differences.
b. If you choose one from two different areas (i.e. San Francisco de Solano from
northern California and San Diego de Alcal from Southern Colonies) your emphasis
must be on the similarities. The point that you need to make are either Despite the
fact that two were from the same group there were significant differences, or
Despite the fact that the two were from different groups, there were significant
similarities.
2. Cite Sources on the map, outside the bubbles. You will cite the sources you used to find
the information: textbook, Internet website, or additional books.
3. Use the map to present your information. There is no formal written assignment with
this project. You will use the Double Bubble Map as your guide and visual while presenting
orally to the class.
4. NOTE: Tardy projects. One point will deducted for each day project is late.




EXAMPLE

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RUBRIC

8 6 4 2 SCORE
Exceptionally clear Good organization of Some organization Little or no
organization of similarities and of similarities and organization of
similarities and differences between differences between similarities and
differences between the two California the two California differences between
the two California missions with many missions with few of the two California
missions with key of the key the key information missions with few of
SOCIAL
information information the key information
STUDIES (i.e. significance of
(i.e. significance of the (i.e. significance of the geographical (i.e. significance of
geographical location, the geographical location, leaders, the geographical
leaders, and religious location, leaders, and and religious views) location, leaders, and
views) religious views) religious views)

Citation is included Citation is included Citation is not Citation is not
outside each bubble for outside each bubble included outside included outside
reference. for reference. each bubble for each bubble for
reference. reference.
States either Despite States either Despite
the fact that two were the fact that two States either Does not state either
from the same region, were from the same Despite the fact Despite the fact that
there were significant region, there were that two were from two were from the
differences, significant the same group, same group, there
or differences, there were were significant
Despite the fact that or significant differences,
READING the two were from Despite the fact that differences, or
INFO. TEXT different regions, there the two were from or Despite the fact that
were significant different regions, Despite the fact the two were from
similarities. there were that the two were different groups,
significant from different there were
Support with clear, similarities. groups, there were significant
relevant examples from significant similarities;
multiple sources. Support with similarities if does state this,
matching examples. with no clear there are no clear
Evidences inference examples to support examples to support
skills the point. the point.

Organized and well Organized Somewhat Not organized
thought-out with organized
smooth transitions Some eye contact No eye contact
Little eye contact
Speaks clearly and Speaks clearly Cannot hear speaker
SPEAKING loudly with good eye Difficult to hear
contact Mostly easy to follow speaker Difficult to follow and
and understand understand
Easy to follow and Difficult to follow
understand and understand


LATE
(points deducted)

TOTAL SCORE
EARNED
Concotelli, Lee 2017-2018 Year