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?
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
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 HERE!
*Submit your response to this question to Ms. Wood via Drive, when you are done. I will provide some brief feedback by Thursday's AT :-)
Review Game: Six Degrees of Separation- 1492 to Jamestown
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