The California 4th Grade Mission Project is an assignment where Fourth grade students enrolled in California public schools are taught about the role which the California missions founded in the late 1700s and early 1800s played in the state's development. 4th Grade redirects here For the South Park episode see 4th Grade (South Park episode. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of Religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between Many California school districts have the students create a multiple-medium project, such as writing a paper or building a model of a mission.

Contents 1 Content Standard 2 Criticism 3 See also 4 External links

Content Standard

The California State Board of Education has identified the following as the standard content for this project:

• 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.

• Discuss the major nations of California Indians, including their geographic distribution, economic activities, legends, and religious beliefs; and describe how they depended on, adapted to, and modified the physical environment by cultivation of land and use of sea resources.
• Identify the early land and sea routes to, and European settlements in, California with a focus on the exploration of the North Pacific (e. g. , by James Cook, Vitus Bering, Juan Cabrillo), noting especially the importance of mountains, deserts, ocean currents, and wind patterns. Captain James Cook FRS RN ( – 14 February 1779) was an English Explorer, Navigator and Vitus Jonassen Bering (also less correctly Behring) ( August 1681 &ndash December 19, 1741) was a Danish -born navigator in the Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (ca 1499 &ndash January 3 1543 was a Portuguese explorer known as João Rodrigues Cabrilho in Portuguese noted for his exploration
• Describe the Spanish exploration and colonization of California, including the relationships among soldiers, missionaries, and Indians (e. g. , Juan Crespi, Junipero Serra, Gaspar de Portola). Father Juan Crespí ( March 1, 1721 — January 1, 1782) was a Spanish missionary and explorer of Las Californias. Fra Junípero Serra ( November 24, 1713 &ndash August 28, 1784) was a Spanish Franciscan Friar who founded Gaspar de Portolà i Rovira (1716 1784 was a soldier Governor of Baja and Alta California (1767&ndash1770 Explorer and founder of
• 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. The Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España was a name given to the Viceroy -ruled territories of the Spanish Empire in North America,
• Describe the daily lives of the people, native and nonnative, who occupied the presidios, missions, ranchos, and pueblos. Pueblos are traditional communities of Native Americans in the southwestern United States of America.
• Discuss the role of the Franciscans in changing economy of California from a hunter-gatherer economy to an agricultural economy. The term Franciscan is commonly used to refer to members of Catholic A hunter-gatherer society is one whose primary subsistence method involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild Foraging and Hunting
• Describe the effects of the Mexican War for Independence on Alta California, including its effects on the territorial boundaries of North America. The Mexican War of Independence (1810 - 1821 was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and Spanish colonial authorities which started on September 16 1810 Alta California (Upper California was formed in 1804 when the Province of the Californias, then a part of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas in the
• Discuss the period of Mexican rule in California and its attributes, including land grants, secularization of the missions, and the rise of the rancho economy.

Criticism

This topic is controversial in that it is often taught in a way that shows the missions as great cultural centers for the California natives without mentioning that they were used to convert local natives to Catholicism, sometimes coercively. Discussion of revolts where Native Americans attacked missions are generally missing from the Fourth-grade curriculum.

See also

• California mission clash of cultures

External links

• California 4th grade history standards--see 4.2
• Daily Life at Mission San Juan Capistrano (PDF)
• Indians of the Mission (San Juan Capistrano) (PDF)
• Family takes a tour of California's missions: A fourth-grader's report provides the focal point for a family vacation. Visits to four sites are as eye-opening for the parents as they are for the kids — article from the March 11, 2008 edition of the Los Angeles Times

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