Alta California contained most of the land that makes up what is now the Southwest. In 1821, the land was controlled by Mexico. Its leaders made many changes including ending the Spanish mission system. Alta California became more diverse as its economy grew and changed. Explore the history of Alta California with this primary source title that builds students’ reading skills and promotes civics and social studies content literacy. The dynamic primary source maps, letters, and images provide authentic nonfiction reading materials and keep students interested in learning. Text features include a glossary, index, captions, sidebars, and table of contents. This book connects to California state studies standards and the NCSS/C3 Framework and features appropriately leveled text to accommodate different reading levels. Additional features include Read and Respond and a culminating activity that prompt students to dive deeper into the text for additional reading and learning.

Alta California contained most of the land that makes up what is now the Southwest. In 1821, the land was controlled by Mexico. Its leaders made many changes including ending the Spanish mission system. Alta California became more diverse as its economy grew and changed. Explore the history of Alta California with this primary source e-book that builds students’ reading skills and promotes civics and social studies content literacy. The dynamic primary source maps, letters, and images provide authentic nonfiction reading materials and keep students interested in learning. Text features include a glossary, index, captions, sidebars, and table of contents. This book connects to California state studies standards and the NCSS/C3 Framework and features appropriately leveled text to accommodate different reading levels. Additional features include Read and Respond and a culminating activity that prompt students to dive deeper into the text for additional reading and learning.

Bring the pages of history to life with primary source documents! Primary sources help students achieve literacy in social studies by teaching them how to investigate and reflect on various social, economic, cultural, and geographical topics. Students will be engaged in reading about Alta California by examining the maps, letters, images, photographs, and art that emerged during the Mexican rule of California. This Interactiv-eBook integrates social studies content and literacy, and will engage students while enriching content-area instruction. Important text features include a glossary, index, captions, sidebars, and table of contents to increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. This leveled text offers instructional opportunities to guide students to increased fluency and comprehension of nonfiction text, and is aligned to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) and other national and state standards. The Your Turn! activity challenges students to connect to a primary source through a writing activity. Map It! extends learning outside of the classroom with an activity that students can respond to at school or home. Explore California's rich history with this Interactiv-eBook!

Bring the pages of history to life with primary source documents! Primary sources help students achieve literacy in social studies by teaching them how to investigate and reflect on various social, economic, cultural, and geographical topics. The Mexican Rule of California 6-Pack will engage students in reading about Alta California as they examine the maps, letters, images, photographs, and art that emerged then. These high-interest texts integrate social studies content and literacy, and will engage students while enriching content-area instruction. Important text features include a glossary, index, captions, sidebars, and table of contents to increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. This title offers instructional opportunities to guide students to increased fluency and comprehension of nonfiction text, and aligns to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) and other national and state standards. The Your Turn! activity challenges students to connect to a primary source through a writing activity. Map It! extends learning outside of the classroom with an activity that students can respond to at school or home. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Antonio María Osio’s La Historia de Alta California was the first written history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule, and this is its first complete English translation. A Mexican-Californian, government official, and the landowner of Angel Island and Point Reyes, Osio writes colorfully of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s that led to the appointment of Juan Bautista Alvarado as governor. Osio wrote his History in 1851, conveying with immediacy and detail the years of the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the social upheaval that followed. As he witnesses California’s territorial transition from Mexico to the United States, he recalls with pride the achievements of Mexican California in earlier decades and writes critically of the onset of U.S. influence and imperialism. Unable to endure life as foreigners in their home of twenty-seven years, Osio and his family left Alta California for Mexico in 1852. Osio’s account predates by a quarter century the better-known reminiscences of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Juan Bautista Alvarado and the memoirs of Californios dictated to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s staff in the 1870s. Editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz have provided an accurate, complete translation of Osio’s original manuscript, and their helpful introduction and notes offer further details of Osio’s life and of society in Alta California.

Build literacy skills and social studies content-area knowledge with this nonfiction title! This 6-Pack offers an integrated English language arts approach that specifically addresses California content standards for history-social science, as well as reading, writing, and English language development standards. Students will learn about Alta California by examining the maps, letters, images, photographs, and art that emerged during the Mexican rule of California. Important text features include a glossary, index, captions, sidebars, and table of contents to increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan that aligns to California's History-Social Science Content Standards.

Typescript copy of a speech on the disastrous results of Mexican rule in Alta California between 1824 and 1848, written and delivered by Mr. H.C. Dillon before the California Badger Club in Los Angeles on Mar. 3, 1909. The author begins by attacking Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu, the 18th-century writers whose works yielded a "fearful and bloody harvest" of revolution during the 19th century, and he links their ideas to the Mexican government of California which destroyed the missions first established by the Jesuits, and then taken over by the Dominicans and Franciscans. He praises the civilizing efforts of the missionary friars on the Indian "savages," and criticizes Mexican governors Echeandia, who "secularized [the Indians] with the new ideas of 'liberty, equality and fraternity'", Gov. Victoria who issued a proclamation for the secularization of the missions, and Gov. Figueroa, under whose rule the decree of secularization was finally passed in 1833. Under Pío Pico, the missions were finally ordered sold by a decree of May 28, 1845.