Once Texas became a state, immigration from other states brought a huge increase in population and economic stability. Most immgrants came from the US South to grow cotton and gain wealth from the labor of slaves. The whole economy was based on slave labor so when tensions grew about possible abolition, Texans grew even more entrenched about protecting their way of life.

Texas seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy in 1861. Many Texans fought for the Confederacy while others fought for the United States. Leaders in the war became leaders after the war and their names are still prominent today. Some battles were fought in Texas though they did not afect the outcome of the war. The home front generally supported the Confederacy as it was dangerous, even fatal, to support the United States.

After the Civil War, Black Codes and violence were used to keep freedmen in their place. With the passage of Reconstruction Acts and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, rich white Democrats worked to "redeem" Texas, to put those in power before the war back in power after Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan emerged as a force to end Republican political power in the state. 

The late 19th century saw the rise and fall of the cattle kingdom and much growth in other commercial sectors. Life changed for many Texans as urbanization increased.

The discovery of oil catapulted Texas into the 20th century. The ecconomy changed from mostly agricultral to an array of commercial and industrial sectors. Texas increasingly urbanized with all the political and social issues that went along with it.

This set of Calculus 1 Lecture Notes and Worksheets was created under a Round Thirteen Mini-Grant for Ancillary Materials Creation and Revision. These materials were created to supplement the Lyrix version of Calculus: Early Transcendentals (https://lyryx.com/calculus-early-transcendentals/).

Topics covered include:

Limits;
Derivatives;
Differentiation;
Differentials;
Integrals and Integration.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, students will
- create a persuasive classical argument following the Aristotelian structure, including an introduction, narration, confirmation, counterargument/refutation/concession, and conclusion.

Author: Kimberly Stelly
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

The Portuguese language lessons of ClicaBrasil highlight aspects of Brazilian culture. They are designed for intermediate to advanced students, but are accessible to everyone. Each lesson includes videos of Brazilians from all walks of life speaking naturally about their lives and their country. All lessons integrate reading, writing, listening and comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, oral communication and cultural activities with the videos. This is also available as a free PDF textbook and as print on demand.

The Portuguese language lessons of ClicaBrasil highlight aspects of Brazilian culture. They are designed for intermediate to advanced students, but are accessible to everyone. Each lesson includes videos of Brazilians from all walks of life speaking naturally about their lives and their country. All lessons integrate reading, writing, listening and comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, oral communication and cultural activities with the videos. This is also available as a free PDF textbook and as print on demand.

Upon successful completion of this lesson, students will
- read, reflect, and respond critically to a text by actively annotating individual thoughts, questions, and responses for each paragraph.

Author: Claire Carly-Miles
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso

How do individuals and families interface with larger systems, and how do therapists intervene collaboratively? How do larger systems structure the lives of individuals and families? Relationally-trained practitioners are attempting to answer these questions through collaborative and interdisciplinary, team-focused projects in mental health, education, the law, and business, among other fields. Similarly, scholars and researchers are developing specific culturally responsive models: outreach family therapy, collaborative health care, multi-systemic school interventions, social-justice-oriented and spiritual approaches, organizational coaching, and consulting, among others. This course explores these developments and aims at developing a clinical and consulting knowledge that contributes to families, organizations, and communities within a collaborative and social-justice-oriented vision.

This is a focused collection of notes for a course in college algebra taught at San Jacinto College (Houston, Texas). With only 157 pages, this course covers only the core concepts that every college algebra student should know. In addition to learning algebraic and computational skills, the course is designed for learning how to think mathematically. The chapters on mathematical language and problem-solving highlight this latter objective.

Developed as part of a Round 13 Mini-Grant, these updated supplementary materials for Stitz-Zeager Open Source Mathematics and the LibGuides Open Course for College Algebra at GCSU include notes and exercises on equations, inequalities, functions, polynomial and rational functions, and exponential and logarithmic functions are included in one .zip file.

A collection of supporting materials for College Physics using OpenStax College Physics as textbook. Materials include PowerPoint Notes, Homework modules and simulation labs.

English faculty from West Texas A&M University, Amarillo College, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, and Texas A&M University - Galveston teamed up to create this open access resource: College Reading and Writing Foundations. This textbook was primarily created for integrated reading and writing courses but serves as a great refresher or supplement for anyone in college.

NOTE:This is a beta version of College Reading & Writing Foundations being piloted for assessment and revision in Spring 2022. Content will be revised and added throughout 2022, with the final version available December 2022.

College Writing II places an emphasis on expository writing as a means of analyzing and understanding texts.The four essay prompts provided are intended to support a composition course in which students learn to read critically and to draw on written sources to support their ideas. Each essay prompt builds from the previous. A unique grading rubric is provided with each essay prompt.After completing these assignments, students should be able to draft, revise, and edit texts in which they demonstrate the ability to understand and analyze a variety of texts; quote, paraphrase, and summarize print and/or online sources to support their ideas; and use standard procedures of citation and documentation.Photo by Dan Dimmock on Unsplash

These worksheets are designed to help students practice the placement of the proper punctuation between independent clauses. These worksheets are designed to supplement previously generated lessons rather than as a stand-alone lesson.

This OER resource offers an example of one required assignment for the Community Navigation with Older Adults course to help students build skills and knowledge locating resources for older adults in the community. Using a link to the National Council on Aging's web-based benefits locator, this assignment requires students to locate community resources for a sample older adult by the name of Mona. A case study of Mona is provided and students are required to assess her needs in the community, and in her home, and find appropriate resources for her needs with the benfits locator link.This particular assignment is part of a larger module of the Community Navigation with Older Adults course. This module focuses on the importance of community resources to a student engaging in community navigation with an older adult.  This assignment requires students to record and respond (using either video or audio) their assessment of Mona's needs and the resources located for those needs in the community using the benefits locator link.  Voicethread technology is the tool used in this course for this assignment, but instructors can feel free to create other forms to capture the students' assessment and their subsequent community resources for Mona.  

This is an assignment that has students apply political science theories of political behavior to examine why health care systems differ across the world. The assignment requires students to watch a PBS frontline documnetary, which is available for anyone to watch.