Frontier Faith Clash Worksheet

A hands-on introductory curriculum that equips students with foundational business acumen and marketing savvy through practical entrepreneurial challenges, financial basics, and campaign design.

An inquiry-based high school history lesson examining the clash between Padre Antonio José Martínez and Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy in territorial New Mexico following the Mexican-American War. Students analyze primary and secondary source perspectives, master academic vocabulary, and evaluate competing visions of cultural identity, religious authority, and civic power.

A four-station pre-reading research WebQuest examining the post-war conformity, McCarthyite Red Scare, civil defense nuclear dread, and cultural censorship of the 1950s that shaped the world of Fahrenheit 451, completely free of book spoilers.

An eight-week experiential introduction to marketing centered around operating and scaling a campus retail store. Students master brand positioning, assortment strategy, pricing mechanics, visual merchandising, and sales analytics through authentic store management.

A rigorous 8th-grade Texas History inquiry examining the December 1835 Siege of Béxar, where Texian volunteers led by Ben Milam executed house-to-house urban warfare to dislodge General Martín Perfecto de Cos's Mexican forces from San Antonio. Students analyze tactical primary sources, engineer breaches through adobe walls, and evaluate the strategic aftermath leading up to the Alamo.

A comprehensive two-page teacher instructional guide and complete answer key for the Crossroads of Faith lesson. Features historical context on New Mexico's territorial transition, a 50-90 minute pacing framework, exemplar answers for all text-dependent comprehension questions, a completed comparative matrix, a model high-scoring synthesis argument, and differentiation supports.

A comprehensive 3-day middle/high school geography unit examining Central America and the Caribbean, covering physical geography, natural hazards, and human-environment interactions.

A comprehensive AP Macroeconomics mini-lesson focused on the Fisher Effect, exploring nominal and real interest rates, expected inflation, and borrower-lender payoff shifts.

A seven-slide presentation deck contextualizing territorial New Mexico in the 1850s, highlighting the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, contrasting the biographies and philosophies of Padre Antonio José Martínez and Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy, and guiding whole-class analysis of the clash between local autonomy and hierarchical authority.

A multi-day inquiry sequence investigating the ancient and medieval Indian Ocean maritime trade network linking East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and Southeast Asia. Students analyze physical geography, seasonal monsoon winds, commercial commodities, and cross-cultural diffusion.

An 8th-grade civics lesson introducing the U.S. Constitution as America's foundational rule book, exploring the failure of the Articles of Confederation, the Philadelphia Convention, and the three-branch system of government.

A three-page student reading dossier and inquiry analysis comparing Padre Antonio José Martínez and Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy. Includes grade-level adapted texts based on territorial New Mexico history, side glossaries of tier-2 and tier-3 academic vocabulary, text-dependent comprehension questions, a comparative synthesis matrix, and a structured argumentative writing prompt.