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 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.
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
pp. 48-51
• 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.
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?