10th Grade Humanities Name: ______________________________ CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: SUPERHERO, SUPERVILLAIN, OR AN EXCEPTIONALLY COMPLICATED MAN? KNOW WANT TO KNOW LEARNED What do you already know about Christopher Columbus?
What questions do you have about him and what he did?
Brinkley, Unfinished Nation (textbook)
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? Brinkley, Unfinished Nation (textbook)
Which is more important to this author, celebrating Columbus’s accomplishments or condemning his crimes? 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)
Berliner, “The Columbus Controversy” (secondary)