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Preparation Instructions Warm-up Activity : Designed to entice the students into learning about Spanish colonization. How does the drawing in the Las Casas book display the Spanish? How does it display the indigenous people? Questions for Discussion What modern nations did Spanish explorers sail to? What modern nations did English explorers sail to? What modern nations did French explorers sail to? What would motivate these Europeans to venture into unknown lands and risk death? How have these explorers left their mark on the areas they explored?
Provide students with a basic introduction to the painting, including: This painting was made in , three hundred years after the event portrayed. Group Work and Questions for Discussion: Identify three figures wearing different types of clothing in this painting. Attempt to give them a job title or character title. What items in this painting display power?
What items in this painting display religion? How can this painting relate to what motivated the Spanish to explore and colonize the New World? Differentiated Instruction 3: Captain John Smith A reading from Captain John Smith Note that this is written in an older form of English, which can be discerned by having the teacher read this aloud while students read along silently. Vocabulary counsel: government Questions for Discussion What problems did John Smith and his crew face in exploring and settling in the New World?
How does John Smith portray the Spanish? How does John Smith portray the indigenous people he encountered? Questions for Discussion How does this engraving depict the indigenous people? Who has the military advantage according to this image?
The story of North American exploration spans an entire millennium The first attempt by Europeans to colonize the New World occurred. The exploration of North America by non-indigenous people was a continuing effort to map and The Voyages of Christopher Columbus opened the New World. first European since the Norse to explore the Atlantic coast of North America.
Vocabulary exalted: highly honored irresolute: undecided idolatry: worship of idols Lily: reference to the French symbol of royalty, the fleur de lis Questions for Discussion Summarize the passage: "For the more hazardous it is, and the more numerous the perils and losses by which it is attended, so much the more is it esteemed and exalted above all others, being wholly unsuited to the timid and irresolute.
What does the reference "I have always desired to see the Lily flourish" mean? Differentiated Instruction 5: Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh Note that this is written in an older form of English, which can be discerned by having the teacher read this aloud while students read along silently.
How does this charter describe the inhabitants of the New World? Vocabulary : preheminences: permanencies: those that surpass all others jurisdictions: areas where law applies. Resource Type Lesson Plan. Content Type. Fulltext search. Introduction By the early to mid-seventeenth century, Spain, England, France, and the Netherlands were all competing for colonies and trade around the world. Guiding Question Which label best describes the very first wave of European immigration to the Americas in the late fifteenth to early sixteenth centuries: explorers, missionaries, merchants, or conquerors?
Objectives Basic-level objective : Skill set: map identification; recall; description; analysis Geographically, what areas of the New World were western Europeans interested in settling?
Intermediate-level objective: Skill set: compare and contrast; analysis How did these European powers differ in their colonization plans? What conflicts arose over competition for land acquisitions in the New World?
That will be our story next week. Colonial America Before Columbus' voyage, Europeans did not know the Western Hemisphere existed. It endured starvation, brutality, and misrule. Many of these explorers and frontiersmen were the first non- Indians to see the vast regions of the American West.
Vocabulary : imperial; missionaries; imperialism; mercantilism; indigenous Lesson Procedures After the introduction and warm-up activity students will read and analyze five different types of materials: a map, three pieces of artwork, and three primary documents. Preparation Instructions Warm-up Activity : Designed to entice the students into learning about Spanish colonization.
How does the drawing in the Las Casas book display the Spanish? How does it display the indigenous people?
Questions for Discussion What modern nations did Spanish explorers sail to? What modern nations did English explorers sail to? What modern nations did French explorers sail to? What would motivate these Europeans to venture into unknown lands and risk death?
How have these explorers left their mark on the areas they explored? Provide students with a basic introduction to the painting, including: This painting was made in , three hundred years after the event portrayed. Group Work and Questions for Discussion: Identify three figures wearing different types of clothing in this painting. Attempt to give them a job title or character title.
What items in this painting display power? What items in this painting display religion? How can this painting relate to what motivated the Spanish to explore and colonize the New World? Differentiated Instruction 3: Captain John Smith A reading from Captain John Smith Note that this is written in an older form of English, which can be discerned by having the teacher read this aloud while students read along silently.
Vocabulary counsel: government Questions for Discussion What problems did John Smith and his crew face in exploring and settling in the New World? How does John Smith portray the Spanish? How does John Smith portray the indigenous people he encountered? Christopher Columbus explored what is now Cuba and believed it was part of the east coast of Asia.
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Learning English Broadcast. Previous Next. Making of a Nation: Columbus and the New World. February 14, See comments Print. Generations of schoolchildren have been taught that Christopher Columbus discovered the New World. In fact, the second Monday in October is celebrated as a national holiday, Columbus Day, to honor the European explorer. But October's page on the calendar also has a lesser known observance.
October ninth is Leif Erickson Day.
Leif Erickson was a Norse explorer who sailed around the northeastern coast of what we now call North America about one thousand years ago. He and his crew returned to Greenland with news of a place he called "Vinland. Experts digging in eastern Canada in the nineteen sixties found the remains of a village with houses like those in Greenland, Iceland and Norway. But the Norse did not establish any permanent settlements in North America. Today, as we relaunch our series, we begin with the story of early European explorers in North America.
In the eleventh century, Europe was beginning a period of great change. One reason was the religious wars known as the Crusades. The Crusades began at the end of the eleventh century. They continued for about two hundred years. One effect of the presence of European armies in the Middle East was to increase trade.
This trade was controlled by businessmen in Venice and other city-states in Italy. The businessmen earned large profits by supplying the warring armies and by bringing goods from the East into Europe. When the European crusaders returned home, they brought with them some new and useful products. These included spices, perfumes, silk cloth and steel products. These goods became highly valued all over Europe.
The increased trade with the East led to the creation and growth of towns along the supply roads. It also created a large number of rich European businessmen.