PRIMARY SOURCE COLLECTION TOOL Paste a copy of the primary source in the first box, its title and URL in the second, the workshop strategy you will design
for these primary sources, and in the final column, how that strategy and these sources will work together in your book backdrop.
The book you will use: Encounter by Jane Yolen
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Title and Permanent URL
Christopher Columbus: Adventurer
of Faith and Courage (Sowers)
Paperback – October 1, 1976
Amazon.com
Encounter
By Jane Yolen
Your name: Lyn Tausan & Kyle Buckley
In what strategy from the workshop will you
use these sources?
Discuss with class who they think Christopher
Columbus was. What did he do? When did he
live? What is your feeling/understanding of
him? Etc. Read aloud this book first to class as
an introduction to Columbus.
Read aloud this book second as a follow up to
initial discussion and after reading Christopher
Columbus: Adventurer of Faith and Courage.
Available from: Amazon.com
First landing of Columbus on the
shores of the New World: At San
Salvador, W.I., Oct. 12th 1492
http://lccn.loc.gov/2001699099
Compare and Contrast primary source images
With Jane Yolen’s book Encounter.
How will the primary source activity enrich your
teaching of the book: how will you enhance
student literacy?
Set up for discussion.
Compare and contrast the book, Encounter, with
primary sources that primarily depict Columbus
as a hero and from an entirely white viewpoint.
Students will write an analysis of the comparison,
drawing on specific primary sources. They will
also hypothesize as to why each document
portrays Columbus in each point of view. Point
of view will also be included in discussion as well
as in the written analysis.
Columbus at the court of Barcelona
http://lccn.loc.gov/91721156
The First voyage
http://lccn.loc.gov/91721172
St. Mary's Star of the Sea Cadets,
Columbus Parade, New York,
U.S.A. Cadetes de la "estrella del
war" La Santa Maria, Parada
Colombinas E.U. de A.
http://lccn.loc.gov/91783857
Landing of Columbus
http://lccn.loc.gov/96502120
Christopher Columbus (1451–
1506). Epistola Christofori Colom
(Letters of Christopher Columbus).
Rome: Stephan Plannck, after April
29,1493. Jay I. Kislak Collection,
Rare Book and Special Collections
Division, Library of Congress
(048.00.00)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/expl
oring-the-earlyamericas/ExplorationsandEncount
ers/ColumbusandtheTaino/Assets/
ea0048p1_725.Jpeg
Columbus’s Account of 1492 Voyage
After his first transatlantic voyage, Christopher
Columbus sent an account of his encounters in
the Americas to King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella of Spain. Several copies of his
manuscript were made for court officials, and
a transcription was published in April 1493.
This Latin translation was published the same
year. In reporting on his trip to his sovereigns,
Columbus wrote:
There I found very many islands, filled with
innumerable people, and I have taken
possession of them all for their Highnesses,
done by proclamation and with the royal
standard unfurled, and no opposition was
offered to me.
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). Epistola
Christofori Colom (Letters of Christopher
Columbus). Rome: Stephan Plannck, after April
29,1493. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and
Special Collections Division, Library of
Congress (048.00.00, 048.00.01, 048.00.02,
048.00.03)
Columbus’s Voyage and the New World
This edition of the Columbus letter, printed in
Basel in 1494, is illustrated. The five woodcuts,
which supposedly illustrate Columbus’s
voyage and the New World, are in fact mostly
imaginary, and were probably adapted
drawings of Mediterranean places. This widely
published report made Columbus famous
throughout Europe. It earned him the title of
Admiral, secured him continued royal
patronage, and enabled him to make three
more trips to the Caribbean, which he firmly
believed to the end was a part of Asia.
Seventeen editions of the letter were
published between 1493 and 1497. Only eight
copies of all the editions are extant.
Shell Amulet. Haiti or Dominican
Republic. Taíno, AD 700–1500.
Carved shell. Jay I. Kislak
Collection, Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of
Congress (055.00.01)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/expl
oring-the-earlyamericas/columbus-and-thetaino.html
[Christopher Columbus]
http://www.loc.gov/item/det1994
023856/PP/
Columbus' ships arriving on land
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/j
b/colonial/jb_colonial_columbus_
1_e.html
File:Cassava bread drying.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/File:Cassava_bread_drying.jp
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Story of Cassava Bread:
http://www.dominicancooking.co
m/13313-casabe.html
The "Columbus map" was drawn
circa 1490 in the workshop of
Bartolomeo and Christopher
Columbus in Lisbon.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/File:ColombusMap.jpg
Americae sive qvartae orbis partis
nova et exactissima descriptio /
http://lccn.loc.gov/map49000970
Columbus' Confusion About the
New World
http://www.smithsonianmag.com
/people-places/columbusconfusion-about-the-new-world140132422/
http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&
rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&
cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAUQ
jhw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.de
mocraticunderground.com%2F116
121661&ei=ny6DVffaE4qjNvWcgJA
H&bvm=bv.96042044,d.cGU&psig=
AFQjCNH_mueTac3CGsDT4BhvOS__vA7vA&ust
=1434746864421780
1492: An Ongoing Voyage
Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/columbus.
html
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