1. Hope you had a good Halloween!

2. Tomorrow: Reading day! Assigned cooperative “base groups”! Extra credit if everyone in your base group gets at least a C on the test.

3. Quiz: Explain: Manifest Destiny frontier

4. Timeline of Texas wars: 1810-1821: Mexican War of Independence (Mexico vs. Spain) 1835-1836: Texas Revolution (American settlers against Mexican government) 1846-1848: Mexican-American War (Mexico vs. U.S.)

5. Movie: The Alamo (2004) 1810-1821: Mexican War of Independence (Mexico vs. Spain) 1835-1836: Texas Revolution (American settlers against Mexican government) 1846-1848: Mexican-American War (Mexico vs. U.S.)

6. The movie The Alamo (2004) tells the story of a famous battle during the Texas Revolution of 1835-36. The battle was the siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836). On one side were 183 Texians (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel William Travis, with help from Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie. On the other side was a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men, under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna. The Alamo was an abandoned mission (a fort used by missionaries to convert people to Christianity) in San Antonio, Texas.