PRIMARY SOURCE COLLECTION TOOL Paste a copy of the primary source in the first box, its title and URL in the second, the workshop strategy you will design for these primary sources, and in the final column, how that strategy and these sources will work together in your book backdrop.
The book you will use: Encounter by Jane Yolen
Thumbnail photo Title and Permanent URL
Your name: Lyn Tausan & Kyle Buckley
In what strategy from the workshop will you use these sources?
How will the primary source activity enrich your teaching of the book: how will you enhance student literacy?
Set up for discussion.
Christopher Columbus: Adventurer of Faith and Courage (Sowers)
Paperback – October 1, 1976
Amazon.com
Encounter
By Jane Yolen
Available from: Amazon.com
Discuss with class who they think Christopher
Columbus was. What did he do? When did he live? What is your feeling/understanding of him? Etc. Read aloud this book first to class as an introduction to Columbus.
Read aloud this book second as a follow up to initial discussion and after reading Christopher
Columbus: Adventurer of Faith and Courage.
Compare and contrast the book, Encounter, with primary sources that primarily depict Columbus as a hero and from an entirely white viewpoint.
Students will write an analysis of the comparison, drawing on specific primary sources. They will also hypothesize as to why each document portrays Columbus in each point of view. Point of view will also be included in discussion as well as in the written analysis.
First landing of Columbus on the shores of the New World: At San
Salvador, W.I., Oct. 12th 1492 http://lccn.loc.gov/2001699099
Compare and Contrast primary source images
With Jane Yolen’s book Encounter.

Columbus at the court of Barcelona http://lccn.loc.gov/91721156
The First voyage http://lccn.loc.gov/91721172
St. Mary's Star of the Sea Cadets,
Columbus Parade, New York,
U.S.A. Cadetes de la "estrella del war" La Santa Maria, Parada
Colombinas E.U. de A. http://lccn.loc.gov/91783857
Landing of Columbus http://lccn.loc.gov/96502120

Christopher Columbus (1451–
1506). Epistola Christofori Colom
(Letters of Christopher Columbus).
Rome: Stephan Plannck, after April
29,1493. Jay I. Kislak Collection,
Rare Book and Special Collections
Division, Library of Congress
(048.00.00) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/expl oring-the-earlyamericas/ExplorationsandEncount ers/ColumbusandtheTaino/Assets/ ea0048p1_725.Jpeg
Columbus’s Account of 1492 Voyage
After his first transatlantic voyage, Christopher
Columbus sent an account of his encounters in the Americas to King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella of Spain. Several copies of his manuscript were made for court officials, and a transcription was published in April 1493.
This Latin translation was published the same year. In reporting on his trip to his sovereigns,
Columbus wrote:
There I found very many islands, filled with innumerable people, and I have taken possession of them all for their Highnesses, done by proclamation and with the royal standard unfurled, and no opposition was
offered to me.
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). Epistola
Christofori Colom (Letters of Christopher
Columbus). Rome: Stephan Plannck, after April
29,1493. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and
Special Collections Division , Library of
Congress (048.00.00, 048.00.01
, 048.00.02
,
048.00.03
)
Columbus’s Voyage and the New World
This edition of the Columbus letter, printed in
Basel in 1494, is illustrated. The five woodcuts, which supposedly illustrate Columbus’s voyage and the New World, are in fact mostly imaginary, and were probably adapted drawings of Mediterranean places. This widely published report made Columbus famous throughout Europe. It earned him the title of
Admiral, secured him continued royal patronage, and enabled him to make three more trips to the Caribbean, which he firmly believed to the end was a part of Asia.
Seventeen editions of the letter were

Shell Amulet. Haiti or Dominican
Republic. Taíno, AD 700–1500.
Carved shell. Jay I. Kislak
Collection, Rare Book and Special
Collections Division , Library of
Congress (055.00.01) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/expl oring-the-earlyamericas/columbus-and-thetaino.html
[Christopher Columbus] http://www.loc.gov/item/det1994
023856/PP/ published between 1493 and 1497. Only eight copies of all the editions are extant.
Columbus' ships arriving on land http://www.americaslibrary.gov/j b/colonial/jb_colonial_columbus_
1_e.html

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Story of Cassava Bread: http://www.dominicancooking.co
m/13313-casabe.html
The "Columbus map" was drawn circa 1490 in the workshop of
Bartolomeo and Christopher
Columbus in Lisbon . https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:ColombusMap.jpg
Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio / http://lccn.loc.gov/map49000970
Columbus' Confusion About the
New World http://www.smithsonianmag.com
/people-places/columbusconfusion-about-the-new-world-
140132422/

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1492: An Ongoing Voyage
Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/columbus.
html
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