September 18 & 21, 2015Please take out your 3-Ring Binder and

something with which to write

Quote of the Day

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Homework• Read p. 389-393 & p. 398-402• p. 393 #3 & p. 402 #3• Study for Latin America Map Quiz• Textbooks Next Class? No

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Finish Marco Polo Video• Run Time 45:45• Questions Handout• Part of Unit 1.3 Homework Packet

http://www.biography.com/people/marco-polo-9443861/videos/marco-polo-full-episode-2073408403

Period 2 ONLYWhy Do We Review the

Quiz?• Learn from your mistakes

• Improve for the next quiz

• Catch any mistakes made by Coach Kenney

• “The only real failure in life is the failure to learn from your mistakes”

Exploration Map Activity• Handout• Part of Unit 1.3 Homework Packet

• You may work with a partner

• p. 366 & 367

Observe This• Write down as many observations as you can

about the map

• Try to connect what you see with what you already know or have read about

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Baller Sheet-Exploration• j

I. Portugal

• Convinced the best water route to Asia is going SOUTH around Africa.

1) Bartolomeu Dias – 1488.

• First European to successfully round the Cape of Good Hope.

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I. Portugal (cont.)

2) Vasco da Gama – 1497.

Rounded Africa and continued on to India.

First European to successfully sail to Asia and back.

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I. Portugal (cont.)

3) Pedro Cabral – 1500

Sailed for India but drifted west of da Gama’s route.

Landed on present-day Brazil.

Claimed the land for Portugal.

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II. Spain

• Sold on the idea that the short cut to Asia was going WEST to get east.

1) Christopher Columbus – 1492

Sailed west and landed in the Bahamas; thought he was near India and China.

II. Spain (cont.)

Columbus would make 3 more trips.

Explored the entire Caribbean looking for a path to Asia.

Established the first European colony in the Americas on Hispaniola.

A Different View of Christopher Columbus

• Reading Handout (p. 1-3)• Excerpts from A People’s History of the United

States by Howard Zinn• Questions Handout (p. 4)

– Part of Unit 1.3 Homework Packet

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Homework• Read p. 389-393 & p. 398-402• p. 393 #3 & p. 402 #3• Study for Latin America Map Quiz• Textbooks Next Class? No