Bellringer : AIR Time (15 min.)

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

• SAT 3 Vocab. & Sent.

• Spanish Explorers’ Journals

• Silent Graffiti

IROQUOIS CONSTITUTION (QUES. ON P. 44-45)

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 SOURCEAn 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 DOCUMENTA 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 DOCUMENTSeminal means one that is very important and/or influential in history.

WHICH OF THESE DOCUMENTS IS MOST RELIABLE? WHY?

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)

“A JOURNEY THROUGH TEXAS”

BY ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA

• 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.

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?