Teams: Two members.

No roles.
Teacher works through the following model, then provides
opportunities for the teams to build graphic organizer of their own.
Selection: Write the topic sentence.What reasons motivated
European countries to explore and expand their horizons?

Diagram:
Reasons
Adventure
Religion
Economic
Tales about
Christianity in Europe
Far East silks and Marco Polo
and Near East-Africa
spices-need for short
an Asia
sea routes

Generalizations: Three major reasons motivated Europe to expand

its horizons, but the most important was economic trade.