REMINDER: I don’t offer last minute extra credit or deals to round up your grade. This is a good time to check Eschool for missing work.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
GROUP ACTIVITY (20):
- How did a small group of Spaniards conquer tens of millions of Incas, Aztecs and other native peoples?
- What does the Columbian Exchange teach us about the pros and cons of global trade?
GROUP ACTIVITY (20):
- Discuss the following--What did you have for lunch yesterday?
- Vote on which group member had the “best lunch”.
- Identify the 4 main ingredients that you’ve identified from that “best lunch.”
- Find where each of the four ingredients (plant, animal or animal product) originated in the world. In other words, where did humans first use it/domesticate it? Example-- goat cheese should be the approximate location where humans first domesticated goats. One student per ingredient.
- Use this source to start your research; you can look at other sources after glancing at this one first.
- Be ready to report your findings out to the class.
ESSAY: You will write an argumentative essay on an animal, plant or disease involved in the Columbian Exchange. This will be your unit assessment.
3-4 pages long, with at least 5 credible sources (not including the one I just gave you).
The Research Essay rubric is below.
Sources you can use are on Classroom.
Use the website from above as a place to start thinking about a topic. Click around to see how much information there is about it. Wikipedia and that web site don’t count as sources, but they are good jumping off points for your research.
ESSAY PROMPT: On a scale of 1-10, the [animal/plant/disease] WAS a [number] in terms of its impact on Latin America or Europe and IS a [number] today.
TOPICS
Plants: Corn, potatoes, sugar cane, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, pineapples, tobacco, vanilla, coca (leaf that is traditionally chewed in the Andes but also processed into cocaine), cacao/chocolate, coffee, chili peppers.
Animals: Cows (includes oxen and bulls), horses, black rats (AKA Norway rats) and/or sewer rats (brown rats), pigs, dogs (European war dogs vs. Native American dogs), goats.
Diseases: Smallpox, influenza (the flu), measles, syphilis (there is some controversy about its origin), malaria, whooping cough, yellow fever (harder to research).
HW: Find 3-5 possible topics by Tuesday. We will do a random selection then and your favorite topic might get picked by the time you are called. If you aren’t ready with a topic when called, you will be skipped and bumped to last. Use the reading, the video and your own research for inspiration.
HW: Essay Outline due Block Day, 2/12-2/13.
First draft for peer review due Tuesday, 3/3.
Final draft due Friday, 3/20.
3-4 pages long, with at least 5 credible sources (not including the one I just gave you).
The Research Essay rubric is below.
Sources you can use are on Classroom.
Use the website from above as a place to start thinking about a topic. Click around to see how much information there is about it. Wikipedia and that web site don’t count as sources, but they are good jumping off points for your research.
ESSAY PROMPT: On a scale of 1-10, the [animal/plant/disease] WAS a [number] in terms of its impact on Latin America or Europe and IS a [number] today.
TOPICS
Plants: Corn, potatoes, sugar cane, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, pineapples, tobacco, vanilla, coca (leaf that is traditionally chewed in the Andes but also processed into cocaine), cacao/chocolate, coffee, chili peppers.
Animals: Cows (includes oxen and bulls), horses, black rats (AKA Norway rats) and/or sewer rats (brown rats), pigs, dogs (European war dogs vs. Native American dogs), goats.
Diseases: Smallpox, influenza (the flu), measles, syphilis (there is some controversy about its origin), malaria, whooping cough, yellow fever (harder to research).
HW: Find 3-5 possible topics by Tuesday. We will do a random selection then and your favorite topic might get picked by the time you are called. If you aren’t ready with a topic when called, you will be skipped and bumped to last. Use the reading, the video and your own research for inspiration.
HW: Essay Outline due Block Day, 2/12-2/13.
First draft for peer review due Tuesday, 3/3.
Final draft due Friday, 3/20.
| la_essay_rubric.docx |
| columbian_exchange_outline.doc |
Additional Sources for the Columbus Trial: https://www.vox.com/2014/10/13/6957875/christopher-columbus-murderer-tyrant-scoundrel
Taino Resistance (http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/taino/taino-conquest.htm)
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-de-Bobadilla
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain: AP Euro Bit by Bit #10 (second half)
Taino Resistance (http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/taino/taino-conquest.htm)
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-de-Bobadilla
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain: AP Euro Bit by Bit #10 (second half)
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