"Writing Mexican-Americans into Seventh Grade Texas
History"
This project was supported by a grant from
Humanities Texas
This initiative, "Writing Mexican-Americans into Seventh
Grade Texas History, is part of the
Andrew Pickett Mobley Scholar project, a multi-year project
designed to provide opportunities for collaborative learning
experiences in regional history between faculty members and students.
It also provides a venue for undergraduate research in Texas history
and Southwestern Studies. For this project, the Austin College
History Department, the Center for
Southwestern and Mexican Studies, and Austin Teacher
Program worked together to create online lesson plans for teachers
of seventh grade Texas history to tell the story of Mexican-Americans
and their contribution to the history of this state. Austin
College students studying Texas history developed the lesson plans
below that
highlight the following Mexican-Americans in Texas history:
Four Austin College students participated in this
project during January Term 2007 under the supervision of Professor
Light T. Cummins: Katie Daitoku, Jacqueline Armstrong, Maria
Vargas, and Jacqueline Welsh.
Four distinguished educators served as members of the
advisory panel for this project: Adan Benavides of the Benson
Latin
American Collection, University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Carolina
Castillo-Crimm of
San Houston State University, Dr. J. f. de la Teja of Texas State
University - San Marcos, and Dr. Teresa Lozano Long of Austin, Texas.
Light T. Cummins, Professor of History, serves as the
Andrew Pickett Mobley Scholar and is the director of this project,
assisted by Heidi Rushing of the Regional Studies Office, along with
various faculty members from the History Department and the Center for
Southwestern and Mexican Studies.
This is an on-going project that will involve additional
future students at Austin College adding additional individuals as
subjects of this website.
This project is underwritten through the generosity of
Humanities Texas
and Mr. Steven M. Mobley, a member of the Austin College Board of
Trustees, in memory of his son Andrew Pickett Mobley, who was a student
at Austin College.
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