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 )

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 Chronological order Transition words? 1528 Panfilo de Narvaez & 400 Spanish soldiers – Tampa Bay (Florida’s west coast) Our author – 2 nd 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

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 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 w/ thinkaloud Read pp 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 mi.)

CORNELL NOTES Take Cornell notes on the passage (pp ).

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?