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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
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