September 22 & 24, 2015 Please get ready for the Latin America Map Quiz.

September 22 & 24, 2015

Please get ready for the Latin America Map Quiz

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Homework• Read p. 403-407 (Vocabulary!)• p. 407 #4• Magellan Reading & Questions• Textbooks Next Class? No

A Different View of Christopher Columbus

• Reading Handout (p. 1-3)• Excerpts from A People’s History of the United

States by Howard Zinn• Questions Handout (p. 4)

– Part of Unit 1.3 Homework Packet

Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress

• First 3 paragraphs-Read aloud and discuss together (Question #1)

• Next 4 paragraphs-Read silently and discuss together (Question #2)

• Rest of handout-Read silently and answer questions (Questions #3 & #4)

Warm Up #8

Answer the following in your 3-Ring Binders:One Paragraph/Proper Grammar

1.Should we celebrate Columbus Day on Monday, October 12th? Why or why not?

http://columbuscelebration.com/essays.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKEwL-10s7E&app=desktophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF_unlvjccA

Vote With Your Feet

Should we celebrate Columbus Day?

II. Spain (cont.)

2) Amerigo Vespucci – 1499, 1501.

Followed up on the voyages of Columbus.

Coined the phrase “New World.”

Americas are named after him.

II. Spain (cont.)

3) Ferdinand Magellan – 1519-22.

• Set out to finish the voyage of Columbus.

• Can you go west to get east?

• First voyage to sail all the way around the world.

III. England

• Believed in the existence of a “Northwest Passage” to Asia.

1) John Cabot – 1497.

• Reached the east coast of what is today Canada.

• Claimed the lands for England.

III. England (cont.)

2) Sir Francis Drake – 1577-80.

• Set out to raid Spanish settlements on the west coast of the Americas.

• Traveled as far north as S.F. bay looking for west end of NW Passage.

• Finished by going around the world.

III. England (cont.)

3) Henry Hudson – 1609, 1610.

• Sailed in search of N.W. Passage.

• Explored Hudson River for the Dutch.

• Explored Hudson Bay for England.

IV. France

• Also sent explorers in search of the fabled Northwest Passage.

1) Giovanni da Verrazano – 1524.

• Explored the east coast of what is now the U.S. including New York.

• Claimed the land as New France.

The Americas ca. 1750

Homework• Read p. 403-407 (Vocabulary!)• p. 407 #4• Magellan Reading & Questions• Textbooks Next Class? No