TEXAS
BY: ROSARIO MONROY
TOPICS
• Description • The People
• Location • Education
• How to get there • State Flag
• What you can see • State Capital
• My opinion of • The Land and the
Texas Climate
• The History
Description
• Texas is a big state. Texas’ largest city is
Houston. In Houston, there are more
than two million people. Dallas is the
second largest city in Texas.
LOCATION
• Texas is in the southwestern part of the
United States. New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Louisiana and Mexico border
Texas.
How to get there?
• To get to Texas, you
need to take a plane;
some people get
there by car or train.
It only takes three
hours to get to
Dallas/Fort worth
Airport, from New
York.
What you can see?
• Texas has nice places to visit. The Alamo is the
most visited in this state. It is an old church.
Six Flags is where people go to get on rides and
play games. It has more than one hundred
rides. Big Bend National Park is in the
southwest of Texas. The capital building is the
largest building in the United States, it has 392
rooms, 924 windows, 400 doors, and it took six
years to build.
My Opinion of Texas
• Texas has beautiful weather. It is hot and
you can get a great tan. The architecture
is modern. The water is nice and blue.
The People
• Many people are of Mexican descent.
Many of these people search for jobs as a
construction workers, gardeners, and
maids. Texas is like a melting pot, it
consists of German and Irish decent.
Native Americans were the first to live on
Texas. Many people join the rodeo
(where they ride on bulls and horses).
Education
• The government provides good education
to its’ young people. This is one of the
best ways to cut down on the crime rate.
Teenagers, who regularly attend school
and learn job skills, are less inclined to get
involved in criminal activities, gangs, and
drugs.
State Flag
• People call Texas the “Lone Star State”
this nickname comes from the state flag.
It has three parts: a white horizontal
stripe, a red horizontal stripe, and a blue
vertical stripe with a white five-pointed
star in this center.
State Capital
• The state capital of Texas is Austin.
The Land And the Climate
• Texas is made of Coastal Plains, which has salt
marshes. To the south the coastal plain is
spotted with cactus. To the west and southwest
of the central plains is the Great Plains. Texas is
also made of mountains and basins.
• Sometimes Texas has dangerous storms like
hurricanes and tornadoes. The temperature is
very high, it exceeds 110 degrees in the summer
months. The climate is varied.
The History
• Texas became part of the United States. The
28th state and got this name from the Coddo, a
group of Native American Tribes. They were the
first people to live in Texas. The Apaches tribe
often fought with settlers and other tribes. The
Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to
visit Texas. In Dallas on November 22, 1963,
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Tourists from around the world often visit this
place. Another famous Texan was lost in Corpus
Christi on March 31, 1995; she was Selena.