1. Do This Now… Sit in assigned groups
Read the provided article and work together as a group to answer the provided questions
Be prepared to discuss your answers as a class

2. How Should the Age of Discovery Be Remembered?

3. How should Columbus’s contributions to the Age of Discovery be remembered?

4. Review of Columbus Spain Envies Portugal:
Want direct sea route to Asia
Enter Christopher Columbus, 1492
Italian
Promises Western Route to Asia
Sets sail

5. Sighting Land
After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean for 10 weeks land was sighted by a sailor named Rodrigo Bernajo.

6. On this voyage Columbus encountered the islands which became known as the West Indies, in the Caribbean Sea.

7. Columbus’s Arrival in the Americas
Hispaniola
Modern DR
Modern Haiti
Cuba
Central America
South America
Four voyages total
Depiction of Columbus arrival in Hispaniola

8. How should Columbus’s contributions to the Age of Discovery be remembered?

9. Becoming Experts In your groups, silently read the provided article
Then, work together to answer each of the accompanying questions
You will have 15 minutes

10. Documenting Expertise
In your groups, work together to complete the provided graphic organizer:
List the author
List how the author impacts the info in the source
List the most important details you have gathered from the source
You will have 10 minutes

11. Sharing What You’ve Learned
Form mixed groups
Take turns sharing your notes with one another
If you’re speaking, you’re attending to the needs of others
If you’re listening, you’re recording key points
You will have 15 minutes

12. Jigsaw Seminar Discussion Questions
What are the best arguments for AND against the continued celebration of Christopher Columbus?
How do the nature of the sources impact our understanding of Columbus’s actions? In other words, what is the relationship between an author and the credibility of his or her work?
Based on the available evidence, do you still believe Columbus was really THAT bad?

13. Columbus’s Complicated Legacy:
The pros:
Encouraged exploration of Americas
Held some sympathy toward natives
The cons:
Genocide of natives
Exploitation of land
Encouraged colonization

14. Reminders
Complete self-evaluation