Images used with the Columbus report of first voyage.
Document used in class. ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MadxqUAKc3EjbfRaABhGy7PGGoPpUWg5gfhSKwoByU8/edit?usp=sharing)
Close reading and note taking (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q5jpP3TJtN1DEGyvHnVh39rz-DaPQDr1NlquP6O_M5M/edit?usp=sharing)
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Check out unit developed by teachers in Holyoke, MA - World's Collide: First Contact between Columbus and the Taino.
Features primary sources from the Library of Congress! Holyoke public school students are 90% Puerto Rican immigrants or their descendents.
6 - 8 3 - 5 9 - 12 Bilingual Education/ESL English/Language Arts Social Studies/History
https://lccn.loc.gov/02008207 Library of Congress link to Digital Journal.
Columbus, Christopher. Diario. English Personal narrative of the first voyage of Columbus to America: from a manuscript recently discovered in Spain / translated from the Spanish. Boston: Published by T.B. Wait and Son, and sold by Wait, Greene and Co., Boston, and C. Arvill, New-York, and Carey and Lea, Philadelphia, 1827.
303 p. ; 22 cm.
E118 .C714
Also planning on adding cartoon book from the summer course The University of The Arts - Teaching with Primary Sources - Pictures worth reading A teacher's Guide to Comics. Link: https://issuu.com/universityofthearts/docs/comics_guide_web
The boys loved the activity. Here is a PDF of three of the good examples.
It is a shared Google link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_n1x36QWib9dUotWVdOeld4RjVkOWo0U0FWUEpKZ2tvNU5z/view?usp=sharing
Columbus Journal 8 panel booklets
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