Age of Exploration

Presented by Anna DonskoyPlummer Elementary School

About Me

Plummer Elementary School

19 years in LAUSD

Fourth and fifth grade combination class (gifted)

Handouts and links for this presentation can be found on the website

http://exploration2015.weebly.com

Common Core Standards -

Reading

Reading Informational

Text

Science mixing in the afternoon

Gifted Program

Combination Class

Social Studies Fifth Grade During the Reading BlockReading with Icons of Depth and Complexity

Focus on the ambiguity in history, unanswered questions, and sources of information in history.

Explorers

Leif Erikson

Christopher Columbus

Other Explorers:

Internet Scavenger

Hunt

LEIF ERIKSON DAY – OCT. 9

During his appearance at the Norse-

American Centennial in 1925, President Calvin Coolidge gave recognition to Leif Erikson as the Discoverer of America In 1930, Wisconsin became the first U.S. state to officially adopt Leif Erikson Day as a state holiday. A year later, the state of Minnesota

followed suit. By 1956, Leif Erikson Day had been made an official observance in seven states(Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Illinois, Colorado, Washington, and California) and one Canadian province (Saskatchewan). In 2012 the day was also made official in Las Vegas, Nevada.(wikipedia)

Social Studies FocusSee the dark side of the exploration BUT do not underestimate the

courage of the first explorers and the impact they have made on the

history of the world.

Understand the controversial nature of the historical knowledge, which

is based on the interpretation of objects and personal writing of

people of the past.

Apply the big ideas to your reading: power and conflict

Reading Focus: Reading Informational Text

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.2Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.3 Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.6Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.7Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.10By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Reading

The Summer of 1001, Leif Eriksson

First Read

First Read

First Read

First Read

Check for the Comprehension of Facts

Second Read

Flipbook with theIcons D/C

Theme:

Author's Message:

Main Idea:

Theme: exploration

Author's Message: Columbus was not the first to discover the continent. There were many other explorers before him.

Main Idea: Leif Eriksson and his men

discovered North America in 1001

Search for Vinland

Retrieved from http://archaeology.about.com/od/vikings/a/vinland.htm on 10-3-2014

Archaeologist and historian Birgitta Linderoth Wallace conducted investigations

of the first European attempt at establishing a trading base in North America. One aspect

that she has been investigating has been the term "Vinland" which was used in the Norse

chronicles to describe the general location of Leif Eriksson's landing.

According to the Vinland sagas, which should (like most historical accounts) be

taken with a grain of salt, Norsemen and a few women ventured out from their established

colonies on Greenland about 1000 AD. The Norse said that they had landed in three

separate places: Helluland, Markland and Vinland. Helluland, think scholars, was probably

Baffin Island; Markland (or Tree Land), probably the heavily wooded coast of Labrador;

and Vinland was almost certainly Newfoundland and points south.

The problem with identifying Vinland as Newfoundland is the name: Vinland

means Wineland in Old Norse, and there aren't any grapes growing today or at any time in

Newfoundland. The Ingstads, using the reports of the Swedish philologist Sven Söderberg,

believed that the word "Vinland" didn't actually mean "Wineland" but instead meant

"pastureland". Wallace's research, supported by the majority of philologists following

Söderberg, indicates that the word probably does, in fact, mean Wineland.

Archaeologist studies the human activity in the past

Philologiststudies languages in historical context

Archaeologist studies the human

activity using materials sources

Philologiststudies languages in historical context

Linguiststudies languages

HistorianInterprets the past

using sources of evidence, primary

sources (documents)

Think Like ________.

Columbus was not a part of the research

Christopher Columbus

Group Investigation: PUZZLEMENT (developed by Tina Hernandez, a literacy coach at Plummer Elementary School)

What Really Happened? (media)

Hero or Criminal? State your opinion.

Reading – Pages from a Gromet’s Diary; focus on the main idea.

Columbus’ Ships: reading technical texts and diagrams

Making a Ship - crafts

Puzzlement – Session 1Divide students into groups

Present the puzzlement

Have students reread the puzzlement and

discuss unfamiliar words and concepts.

Students generate questions about the

puzzlement. The questions are recorded by the

teacher.

In many ways, the settlement of La Navidad is not particularly

important historically. It did not last, no one terribly important

died there, and the Taíno people who burned it to the ground

were subsequently themselves destroyed by disease and

enslavement. It’s more of a footnote or even a trivia question. It

has not even been located: archaeologists continue to search for

the exact site, believed by many to be near Bord de Mer de

Limonade in present-day Haiti.

On a metaphorical level, however, La Navidad is very important,

as it marks not only the first settlement but also the first major

conflict between natives and non-natives. It was an ominous sign

of times to come, as the La Navidad pattern would be repeated

time and time again all over the great continent. Once contact

was established, trade would begin, followed by some sort of

unspeakable crimes followed by wars, massacres and slaughter.

Source: Thomas, Hugh. Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan. New York: Random House, 2005.

Questions

Is it about Christmas?

Who committed a crime?

What is ominous?

Where is Bord de Mer de Limonade?

What is trivia?

No yes or no questions.

Questions

Is it about Christmas?

Who committed a crime?

What is ominous?

Where is Bord de Mer de Limonade?

What is trivia?

Questions

Is it about Christmas?

Who committed a crime?

What is ominous?

Where is Bord de Mer de Limonade?

What is trivia?

Questions

Is it about Christmas?

Who committed a crime?

What is ominous?

Where is Bord de Mer de Limonade?

What is trivia?

Questions

Is it about Christmas?

Who committed a crime?

What is ominous?

Where is Bord de Mer de Limonade?

What is trivia?

Puzzlement – Session 2Groups receive the folders with their

materials.

Group leaders draw the questions, one with the red dot and two with the blue dots.

Groups read and discuss their reading. They try to answer the questions.

Sources of Information

One sentence about the ships needs editing.

COLUMBUS'S LOST TOWN: NEW EVIDENCE IS FOUND

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

CAP HAITIEN, Haiti— ON the night before Christmas in 1492, the flagship of Christopher Columbus, the

Santa Maria, ran aground on a reef off the North Coast of Hispaniola and was wrecked beyond repair.

Accepting the hospitality of an Arawak chief, the men stripped timbers from the abandoned ship and erected a

fortified settlement at an Indian town. Columbus named the place La Navidad.

Leaving 39 men there with instructions to trade for gold, Columbus sailed back to Spain on the Nina. He

returned 11 months later to find a scene of desolation. Both the European settlement and the surrounding

Indian village had been burned. All of his men were dead.

Columbus sailed on, and La Navidad dropped out of sight. The location and fate of this first European

settlement in the New World - the point of first extended contact between European and New World cultures -

have mystified scholars ever since.

Archeologists are almost certain now that they have discovered the site of the Indian town about 10 miles east

of Cap Haitien, in the part of Hispaniola that is Haiti today. They believe they could be on the verge of finding

the scant remains of La Navidad itself.

Sources of Information

Puzzlement – Session 3Students present their answers in

front of the whole class.

The class participates in the discussion.

The questions are recycled in the future studies.

What Really Happened?

Hero or Villain?

Reading: Pages from a Gromet’s Diary

Reading: Pages from a Gromet’s Diary

Reading: Pages from a Gromet’s Diary

Reading: Pages from a Gromet’s Diary

Technical Texts

Choose a Name for Your

Ship

Resources

http://exploration2015.weebly.com