• TODAY: Start the Explorers' Unit: Alvar Nunez Cabez de Vaca and Garcia Lopez de Cardenas

    TODAYS ASSIGNMENT: Read pages 40-48 Explorers' Unit
    Alvar Nunez Cabez de Vaca and Garcia Lopez de Cardenas
    “A Journey Through Texas” and “Boulder Taller that then Great Tower of Seville” please answer the questions.  Rephrase the question into a statement. 



    Students are to complete Critical Reading/Thinking Questions on pages 48 and 50 on Cabeza de Vaca and Cardenas.


    Please record the following vocabulary words in your notebook.


    Vocabulary: Students are required to know the following vocabulary.


    Explorers Narratives (Historical Accounts)    - describe places they have visited. The explorers are writing about their experiences where no one else from their home country, has visited. The explorers are describing un-chartered territories.


    Exploration Narratives    - are firsthand accounts of their travels. The explorers provide important information to their patrons. Explorers carefully record in detail of what they observed.

    As you read the narratives, look for details that provide descriptive images and insights about the regions these men explored.


    Signal Words    -- are words that highlight the relationships among ideas.


    Signal Words - can signal time or emphasize contrast.

    - Time example: "After five days, they not yet returned."

    - Contrast example "...although this was the warm season, no could live in this canyon because of the cold."


    Entreated    - begged; pleaded


    Feigned    - pretended; faked


    Mortality    - death on a large scale


    Subsisted    - remained alive; were sustained


    Traversed    - moved over, across, or through

     

    Dispatched- sent off on a specific assignment


    An author's style-     reflects his choice and arrangements of words and details


    "Mort"    = means death

    (Using the root "mort" you can build words upon it).

    Please read the following article, you will have to answer questions about the material and submit your answers.


    Students are required to know the content, vocabulary words, biographical information about both explorers.

    The Grand Canyon is a mile deep, 277 miles long and 18 miles wide. While the park doesn't include the entire canyon, it does measure in at a whopping 1,904 square miles in total. In comparison, Rhode Island is around 1,212 square miles.

    13 Things You Didn’t Know About Grand Canyon National Park

    https://www.doi.gov/blog/13-things-you-didnt-know-about-grand-canyon-national-park