1. Imagery and Perspectives of the Encounter After reading various accounts of the conquest in LEARNING STATIONS, students will be able to compare perspectives of the conquest by analyzing imagery.

2. IMAGERY Words that appeal to the FIVE SENSES (i.e. sight, sound, touch, smell, taste) in order to entice the reader to recreate a person, scene, event, or object in the readers’ imagination. Through the use of imagery, artists and writers convey opinion and perspectives meant to persuade their audience.

3. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS 1.How did early literatures and writings shape interpretation of the early encounters between Europeans and native peoples of the Americas? 2.How do writers’ use of imagery shape readers’ opinions? 3.How did this initial meeting between Europeans and Native peoples shape Mexican American identity and culture?

4. Directions First, EVERY MEMBER will read independently& CIRCLE KEY WORDS and make prediction about author’s CENTRAL ARGUMENT. Then, TEAM LEAD will be reading a part or all of the selection outloud, whle group underlines powerful & persuasive IMAGERY. Finally, The group shares annotations and uses these to complete DIALECTICAL JOURNAL & SUMMARY TOGETHER.

5. Learning Stations 1.Cortes in Tenochtitlan: SAMPLE STATION Author: Hernan Cortes Genre: Journal 2.The True History of the Conquest of New Spain Author: Bernal Diaz del Castillo Genre: Narrative & Memoir 3. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico * Author: Miguel Leon-Portilla Genre: Academic Essay 4. “The Fall of Tenochtitlan” “The Imprisonment of Cuauhtemoc” “Flowers and Songs of Sorrow” Authors: 16 th Century Nahuatl Poets Genre: Poetry 5. From The Florentine Codex Author: Bernardino de Sahagun Genre: Narrative Account 6.“Madresita”, “Coyotes of Today” Author: Dona Luz Jimenez, Contermporary Nahuatl Poet Genre: Poetry