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Bellringer : AIR Time (15 min.). JOURnal. Free-write today! Write about anything on your mind, or about your weekend, OR about your book. Tell . . . how you felt, who was with you, & what you walked away thinking/feeling. Agenda. AIR Review of Iroquois Constitution Journal
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JOURnal • Free-write today! Write about anything on your mind, or about your weekend, OR about your book. • Tell . . . • how you felt, who was with you, • & what you walked away thinking/feeling.
Agenda • AIR • Review of Iroquois Constitution • Journal • SAT 3 Vocab. & Sent. • Spanish Explorers’ Journals • Silent Graffiti
SAT 3 VOCAB. You have 15 minutes to work on sentence completion. Circle the clue words.
Immigration & Spanish explorers EQ: What do these explorers’ journals reveal about their attitudes towards the land & the people?
Primary Document or Source An actual, first-hand account of an event the person experienced for him-/herself
Examples: Iroquois Constitution, witness to an accident/fight/crime, poem, short story, book, will, contract, journal
Secondary Source or document A person or document talking about the event who got the information from somewhere else
Examples: Encyclopedia, video on the Iroquois Constitution, teacher lecture, essay, book report
SEMINAL PRIMARY DOCUMENT Seminal means one that is very important and/or influential in history.
Draw a freyer diagram for “Primary Document.” Give . . . 3 characteristics, 3 examples & 3 non-examples.
JOURnal • Write about a time you went on a trip, hike, walk, drive to see something unusual, interesting, or cool. • 5-pt. checklist: • Describe what it was, • if it was the goal or accidental, • how you felt, who was with you, • & what you walked away thinking/feeling.
Immigration & Spanish explorers EQ: What do these explorers’ journals reveal about their attitudes towards the land & the people?
Agenda • Journal • Review of seminal primary documents & vocab sheet • Spanish Explorers’ Journals • Silent Graffiti • Cornell notes • Sponsor a Word & Contest (if time)
Chronological order • Transition words? • 1528 Panfilo de Narvaez & 400 Spanish soldiers – Tampa Bay (Florida’s west coast) • Our author – 2nd in command • Difficulties: hostile natives, illness, starvation • Sailed to Texas in 5 flimsy boats – most drowned. • Cabeza de Vaca & 60 made it to Galveston, TX. (See map on P. 47.) • Shipwrecked w/ no supplies –15 survived the winter. • Ultimately, only our author & 3 survived. “A Journey Through Texas”by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca pp. 48-51
Life can get worse before it gets better! • Natives captured them & they were prisoners for several years! • However, C. de V. gained a reputation as a medicine man & trader. • Escape & 18 mos. of wandering through Mexico (1536 – Mexico City) . . . First surgery in Texas on Native American (See illustration on P. 50.) . . . ***OUR JOURNAL is here. • Later 1541 1000 mi. expedition through Brazil and Paraguay. • Governor of Paraguay till ousted 2 yrs. Later • Encouraged Coronado to explore
Why is this piece significant? • Invitation to exploration (riches of the land) • Estevanico (first African to set foot in Texas) • Reveals relationships between the races early on
“A Journey through texas” • Readaloud pp. 48-49 w/ thinkaloud • Read pp. 50-51 silently & take notes on these motifs: wealth, social customs, relationships, & power. Use textual evidence.
Silent Graffiti • Write down your quotes/notes from text on posters.
Think back . . . • What aspects of our earlier themes do you see in this primary document? (Dreams, wilderness, ownership, self-reliance) • Where? How?
Exit ticket • What aspects of our earlier themes do you see in this primary document? (Dreams, wilderness, ownership, self-reliance) • Where? How?
“Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville” Google Earth La Giralda = “the great tower of Seville” (in Spain), 300’ tall
Author: Garcia Lopez de Cardenas • First European to see the Grand Canyon • Leader of Coronado’s expedition to New Mexico • Looking for a river the Native Americans had described (the Colorado) • 1540 • Thought it was 6’ wide! (up to 10 mi. across at the mouth of the Grand Canyon!!) • 5,000-10,000’ tall!! (not 300’) • 10 mi. across (not 1.5-3 mi.)
Cornell Notes Take Cornell notes on the passage (pp. 53-54).
Time-Travel: Imagine you are Cardenas. . . If we could interview you, what explanation would you give for your misjudgment of the dimensions of the Colorado and Grand Canyon?