Kindergarten George Washington Stephen F. Austin George Washington Grade 1 Abraham Lincoln Sam Houston Martin Luther King, Jr. Abraham Lincoln Grade 2 No historical figures are listed. No specific historical figures are BE No additional historical figures are listed. Clara Harlow Barton (moved to Gr. 3) Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison (moved to Gr. 5) Nathan Hale Sam Houston (moved to including) Martin Luther King, Jr. (to including) Abraham Lincoln (moved to including) Benjamin Franklin Garrett Morgan Eleanor Roosevelt George Washington Carver Amelia Earhart Robert Fulton Henrietta C. King Thurgood Marshall Florence Nightingale Irma Rangel Paul Revere Theodore Roosevelt Sojourner Truth WASP pilots of World War II Black = In Current TEKS and 7/31/09 Draft; Green = Recommended Additions; Red = Recommended Deletions 1
Grade 3 Paul Bunyan No specific historical figures are BE Wallace Amos Mary Kay Ash Jane Addams (moved to Gr. 5) Benjamin Banneker Clara Barton Todd Beamer Pecos Bill Daniel Boone Paul Bunyan Sandra Cisneros William Clark (moved to Gr. 5) Christopher Columbus David Crockett (moved to Gr. 4) Robinson Crusoe Louis Daguerre Henry Ford (moved to U.S.H.) Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin Dr. Hector P. Garcia Carmen Lomas Garza Delores Huerta Steve Jobs Helen Keller Margaret Knight Pierre-Charles L Enfant Meriwether Lewis (moved to Gr.5) Bill Martin Cyrus McCormick Kadir Nelson Juan de Oñate Louis Pasteur Jonas Salk Harriet Tubman Phillis Wheatley Black = In Current TEKS and 7/31/09 Draft; Green = Recommended Additions; Red = Recommended Deletions 2
Grade 4 Stephen F. Austin Moses Austin Stephen F. Austin Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca Francisco Coronado Charles Goodnight Governor Lizzie Johnson Local mayor Local members of the Legislature Anson Jones Sam Houston Richard King Mirabeau Lamar René Robert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle Martín de León José Antonio Navarro State and local government leaders Texans as President of United States BE Alvin Ailey Gail Borden James Bowie Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (to including) George Childress Henry Cisneros Christopher Columbus (in Gr. 3) Francisco Coronado (to including) David Crockett Michael DeBakey Susanna Dickinson James Fannin Miriam A. Ferguson Joseph Glidden Henry B. González Oveta Culp Hobby Patillo Higgins Sam Houston Millie Hughes-Fulford Kay Bailey Hutchison Scott Joplin Barbara Jordan René Robert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle Local individuals Audie Murphy Ross Perot Sam Rayburn Ann Richards Cleto Rodríguez Antonio López de Santa Anna Juan N. Seguín E. Deaf Smith Texas Rangers John Tower William B. Travis Lorenzo de Zavala Black = In Current TEKS and 7/31/09 Draft; Green = Recommended Additions; Red = Recommended Deletions 3
Grade 5 No historical figures are listed. John Adams Alexander Graham Bell William Bradford George Washington Carver William Clark John Deere Thomas Edison Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin Anne Hutchinson Thomas Jefferson Meriwether Lewis James Madison William Penn Roger Sherman John Smith George Washington Eli Whitney Roger Williams Wright Brothers Grade 6 No historical figures are listed. No specific historical figures are BE Jane Addams Susan B. Anthony Neil Armstrong John J. Audubon (moved to Gr. 8) Benjamin Banneker (moved to Gr. 3) Clarence Birdseye George Washington Carver (to including) Carrie Chapman Catt César Chávez Thomas Edison (to including) Dwight Eisenhower Benjamin Franklin Anne Hutchinson Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosa Parks William Penn Colin Powell Franklin D. Roosevelt Carl Sagan John Smith (moved to including) Roger Williams (moved to including) Ronald Reagan No historical figures are listed. Black = In Current TEKS and 7/31/09 Draft; Green = Recommended Additions; Red = Recommended Deletions 4
Grade 7 Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Barbara Jordan Mary Maverick Elizabet Ney William B. Travis Lorenzo de Zavala Moses Austin Stephen F. Austin George Childress Green Dewitt James Fannin James Farmer Hector P. García Oveta Culp Hobby James Hogg Sam Houston Lyndon B. Johnson Anson Jones Mirabeau B. Lamar Martín de León Cynthia Parker Quanah Parker Presidents Houston, Lamar, Jones Antonio López de Santa Anna Erasmo Seguín Juan Seguín William B. Travis Lorenzo de Zavala BE James A. Baker III Roy Bedicheck Chief Bowles Benjy Brooks Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca Walter Cunningham Michael DeBakey Michael Dell José Escandón Henry B. Gonzalez William Goyens Phil Gramm Jack Coffee Hayes Francisco Hidalgo Barbara Jordan C.M. Dad Joiner Howard Hughes Sr. Kay Bailey Hutchison Fray Damián Massanet Mary Maverick José Antonio Navarro Alonso Alvarez de Piñeda Texas Rangers Sam Rayburn Black = In Current TEKS and 7/31/09 Draft; Green = Recommended Additions; Red = Recommended Deletions 5
Grade 8 John and Abigail Adams Abigail Adams John Adams Samuel Adams John C. Calhoun Henry Clay Jefferson Davis Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin Bernardo de Galvez Ulysses S. Grant King George III Alexander Hamilton Patrick Henry Andrew Jackson Thomas Jefferson Marquis de Lafayette Robert E. Lee Abraham Lincoln James Madison George Mason Thomas Paine Presidents Washington - Monroe George Washington Daniel Webster BE Susan B. Anthony John James Audubon Frederick Douglass John Paul Jones Abraham Lincoln John Marshall James Monroe William Penn Elizabeth Cady Stanton Henry David Thoreau George Washington Black = In Current TEKS and 7/31/09 Draft; Green = Recommended Additions; Red = Recommended Deletions 6
World Geography No historical figures are listed. No specific historical figures are World History Hammurabi Napoleon Bonaparte Winston Churchill Mikhail Gorbachev Hammurabi Adolf Hitler Thomas Hobbes Thomas Jefferson Emperor Justinian I John Locke Karl Marx Baron de Montesquieu Benito Mussolini Pope John Paul II Ronald Reagan Franklin D. Roosevelt Jean Jacques Rousseau Adam Smith Joseph Stalin Hideki Tojo Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) Lech Walesa Woodrow Wilson Mao Zedong AS (EXAMPLE) FOLLOW THE WORDS SUCH AS (EXAMPLES OF WHAT MAY BE No additional historical figures are listed. Archimedes Robert Boyle Chinese students in Tianamen Square Winston Churchill Nicolaus Copernicus Marie Curie Thomas Edison (in Gr. 5) Albert Einstein Eratosthenes of Cyrene Robert Fulton Galileo Galilei Mohandas Gandhi Adolf Hitler (moved to including) Vladimir Lenin (moved to including) Nelson Mandela Sir Isaac Newton Louis Pasteur Pope John Paul II Pythagoras of Samos Oscar Romero Mother Teresa Desmond Tutu James Watt Woodrow Wilson (to including) Mao Zedong (moved to including) Black = In Current TEKS and 7/31/09 Draft; Green = Recommended Additions; Red = Recommended Deletions 7
U.S. History Dwight Eisenhower Martin Luther King, Jr. Upton Sinclair Susan B. Anthony Omar Bradley Cesar Chavez William Jefferson Clinton Benjamin O. Davis W.E.B. DuBois Dwight Eisenhower Betty Friedan Oveta Culp Hobby Herbert Hoover John F. Kennedy Martin Luther King, Jr. Henry Cabot Lodge Douglas MacArthur Alfred Thayer Mahan George Marshall Joseph McCarthy Richard M. Nixon George Patton John J. Pershing Harry S Truman Ronald Reagan Franklin D. Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Upton Sinclair Texans as President of United States Harry Truman Ida B. Wells Woodrow Wilson BE Jane Addams Susan B. Anthony (moved to including) Mary Kay Ash William Jennings Bryan Andrew Carnegie Shirley Chisholm Clarence Darrow Eugene Debs W.E.B. DuBois (moved to including) Henry Ford Marcus Garvey Bill Gates Newt Gingrich Henry B. Gonzalez Billy Graham Delores Huerta Robert Lafollette Charles A. Lindbergh Thurgood Marshall Ralph Nader Sandra Day O Connor Georgia O Keeffe Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt John Steinbeck Phyllis Schlafly George Wallace Sam Walton Oprah Winfrey Black = In Current TEKS and 7/31/09 Draft; Green = Recommended Additions; Red = Recommended Deletions 8
Government John Locke John Adams Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton Thomas Hobbes Andrew Jackson Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln John Locke James Madison John Marshall Charles de Montesquieu Franklin D. Roosevelt Selected contemporary leaders George Washington Economics No historical figures are listed. No specific historical figures are Psychology No historical figures are listed. Erik Erickson Sigmund Freud Jean Piaget Sociology No historical figures are listed. Auguste Comte Emile Durkheim Karl Marx Herbert Spencer Max Weber Special Topics No historical figures are listed. No specific historical figures are Research No historical figures are listed. No specific historical figures are BE Mary Kay Ash (moved to U.S.H.) Andrew Carnegie (moved to U.S. H.) Bill Gates John Maynard Keynes Karl Marx Adam Smith No additional historical figures are listed. No additional historical figures are listed. No historical figures are listed. No historical figures are listed. Black = In Current TEKS and 7/31/09 Draft; Green = Recommended Additions; Red = Recommended Deletions 9
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