This document provides a template for a 10th grade humanities assignment on Christopher Columbus that asks students to fill in what they already know about Columbus, questions they have, and what they learned from various source materials. The sources listed include both textbooks and secondary sources that provide different perspectives on Columbus, with some celebrating his accomplishments and others condemning his treatment of indigenous people. Students are prompted to consider whether Columbus should be viewed as a superhero, supervillain, or a more complicated figure.
This document provides a template for a 10th grade humanities assignment on Christopher Columbus that asks students to fill in what they already know about Columbus, questions they have, and what they learned from various source materials. The sources listed include both textbooks and secondary sources that provide different perspectives on Columbus, with some celebrating his accomplishments and others condemning his treatment of indigenous people. Students are prompted to consider whether Columbus should be viewed as a superhero, supervillain, or a more complicated figure.
This document provides a template for a 10th grade humanities assignment on Christopher Columbus that asks students to fill in what they already know about Columbus, questions they have, and what they learned from various source materials. The sources listed include both textbooks and secondary sources that provide different perspectives on Columbus, with some celebrating his accomplishments and others condemning his treatment of indigenous people. Students are prompted to consider whether Columbus should be viewed as a superhero, supervillain, or a more complicated figure.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: SUPERHERO, SUPERVILLAIN, OR AN EXCEPTIONALLY COMPLICATED MAN?
KNOW WANT TO KNOW LEARNED What do you already know about Christopher What questions do you have about him and Brinkley, Unfinished Nation (textbook) Columbus? what he did?
Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (secondary)
Zinn, A Young People’s History (secondary)
Berliner, “The Columbus Controversy”
(secondary) What factors led to European exploration in the late 1400s? Which is more important to this author, celebrating Columbus’s accomplishments or condemning his crimes? Brinkley, Unfinished Nation (textbook) Brinkley, Unfinished Nation (textbook, tertiary)
Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (secondary)
Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (secondary) Zinn, A Young People’s History (secondary)