Due Today: Juan Gines de Sepulveda Belittles the Indians (1547) and Bartolome de Las Casas Defends the Indians (1552)
Entry Check-In: Discussion of documents
Whose account do you trust and why?
DEBATE!
Was Columbus an imperialist?
Did Columbus commit genocide?
How to write a Document Based Question:
- Go over rubric and Ms. Wood's process
- Read an excerpt from William Bennett's America: The Last Best Hope
- Read an excerpt from Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Give it a try!
*Submit your response to this question to Ms. Cohen via GoogleClassroom, when you are done. I will provide some brief feedback.
Homework: Review for your first test next class. There will be:
- Six multiple choice
- Two short answer questions
- One Document Based Question- The Columbian Exchange