Columbus+Day+-+Celebrating+Discovery,+or+Genocide?


 * Columbus: Celebrating Discovery, or Genocide?**

Throughout this process, you will unravel the mythological nature of European Exploration and evaluate whether or not Columbus Day should be a federally recognized holiday in the United States.


 * NCSCOS:**

//1.01 Define history and the concepts of cause and effect, time, continuity, and perspective.// //1.02 Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources to compare views, trace themes, and detect bias.// 3.04 Examine European exploration and analyze the forces that caused and allowed the acquisition of colonial possessions and trading privileges in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. 3.05 Cite the effects of European expansion on Africans, pre-Columbian Americans, Asians, and Europeans. 3.06 Compare the influence of religion, social structure, and colonial export economies on North and South American societies. 3.07 Evaluate the effects of colonialism on Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. //6.01 Compare the conditions, racial composition, and status of social classes, castes, and slaves in world societies and analyze changes in those elements.// //6.02 Analyze causes and results of ideas regarding superiority and inferiority in society and how those ideas have changed over time.// //7.01 Assess the degree to which discoveries, innovations, and technologies have accelerated change.// //8.03 Classify within the broad patterns of history those events that may be viewed as turning points.// //8.04 Characterize over time and place the interactions of world cultures.//


 * Throughout the rest of this unit, you will analyze the following:**


 * The Characteristics of a Myth
 * The idea of a “Myth” in regards to history
 * A not-for-profit organization’s video promoting the rejection of a federally recognized Columbus Day
 * Writings (exploration logs) from Christopher Columbus
 * Vintage educational video depicting Columbus
 * A Modern Historian’s take on Columbus
 * Newspaper articles suggesting that Columbus Day be reconsidered
 * Background research on North and South America’s native population before and after European contact.


 * The Task:**

Choose one of the following options:


 * 1) 3-5 page paper discussing, "Columbus: The Man & the Myth"
 * 2) MLA format
 * 3) Include a Work Cited page
 * 4) Develop a CLEAR thesis statement!!! (Compare and Contrast Columbus "The Man" versus Columbus "The Myth")
 * 5) Include information discussed in the readings
 * 6) It is essential that you include quotes and descriptions from primary sources (i.e., Christopher Columbus, Las Casas, etc...)
 * 7) Rubric - []
 * 8) PRINT and turn in Monday, January 24
 * 9) A three minute speech arguing for (or against) the repeal of Columbus Day
 * 10) This speech must be transcribed THEN recorded (I will be able to tell)
 * 11) Please do not bore Mr. Wiggs (100 x 3min = 300 minutes of audio)
 * 12) Make sure your thesis statement is CLEAR
 * 13) Include information discussed in the assigned readings
 * 14) Speech Rubric -[[file:Persuasive Speech Rubric1-1.doc]]
 * 15) Email to ecworlddynamics@gmail.com by Monday, January 24
 * Resources:**

What is a “myth?”
 * http://www.pbs.org/mythsandheroes/myths_what.html
 * [|http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~mmagouli/defmyth.htm]

Videos
 * 1960s Educational Video: []
 * Not-For-Profit Video: []

Images depicting Columbus
 * []
 * http://ns.umich.edu/Releases/2005/Sep05/img/columbus.jpg
 * http://www.favimp.com/Images/columbus2.jpg
 * http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/clovis-1.jpg

Bartolome Las Casas Writings:
 * []

Columbus’ Logs:
 * []

Chapter One of Howard Zinn’s book, //A People’s History of the United States//
 * []

Articles discussing this topic:
 * []
 * []
 * http://ns.umich.edu/index.html?Releases/2005/Oct05/r100305

The Americas before European Discovery
 * []

The Americas after European Discovery
 * []

General/Background information
 * Arawaks - [|http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~sd65/carib_history/arawaks.htm]
 * Las Casas - []