This means...

• I will be successful by choosing a given historical character and writing a poem about them using an "I Am" poem template.

You will write two "I Am" poems. The first will be according to your desk number. The second will be your choice from the remaining list of characters from chapter 2 in your textbook:

• • 1. Leif Erikson (Viking)

    2. Marco Polo (Italian explorer)

    3. Kublai Khan (Mongol leader)

    4. Leonardo da Vinci (artist/scientist during the renaissance)

    5. Prince Henry the Navigator (Portugal leader)

    6. Henry Hudson (English explorer who sailed for the Netherlands & England)

    7. Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese explorer)

    8. Vasco da Gama (Portuguese explorer)

    9. Martin Luther (German Protestant)

    10. Queen Isabella (Spain)

    11. Arawak Indian (The people Columbus first encountered in present day Cuba)

    12. Amerigo Vespucci (Italian explorer who sailed for Spain)

    13. Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese explorer who sailed for Spain)

    14. Hernán Cortés (Spanish Conquistador)

    15. Aztec (Indian)

    16. Francisco Pizarro  (Spanish Conquistador)

    17. Inca (Indian)

    18. Juan Ponce de León  (Spanish Conquistador)

    19. Bartolomé de Las Casas  (Spanish Priest)

    20. Hernando de Soto  (Spanish Conquistador)

    21. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado  (Spanish Conquistador)

    22. John Cabot (Italian explorer who sailed for England)

    23. Jacques Cartier (French explorer)

    24. Robert Cavelier de La Salle (French explorer)

    25. Cabeza de Vaca  (Spanish Conquistador)

    26. King Philip (Spanish leader & Catholic)

    27. Giovanni de Verrazano (Italian explorer who sailed for France)

    28. Spanish Sailors (who sailed with Columbus)

    29. Columbus (Italian explorer who sailed for Spain)