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Yesenia Ayala, Valerie Benoist, Deborah Michaels
Pre-European Contact/First Contact
This lesson plan encourages students to think critically about the concept of “civilization.” The ideology of “civilization” served to legitimize…
Yesenia Ayala, Valerie Benoist, Deborah Michaels
Pre-European Contact/First Contact
Handout to analyze pictographic text by Guaman Poma
Yesenia Ayala, Valerie Benoist, Deborah Michaels
Pre-European Contact/First Contact
This lesson is meant to give voice and agency to Indigenous authors who write about the events that occurred during the interactions between Incas and…
Yesenia Ayala, Valerie Benoist, Deborah Michaels
Pre-European Contact/First Contact
Handout to analyze writings and painting by las Casas
Yesenia Ayala, Valerie Benoist, Deborah Michaels
Pre-European Contact/First Contact
This lesson plan has students consider counter narratives written by Spanish that challenge the description of conquistadors, such as Cortes, as…
Yesenia Ayala, Valerie Benoist, Deborah Michaels
Pre-European Contact/First Contact
Handout to analyze Cortés' letters
Yesenia Ayala, Valerie Benoist, Deborah Michaels
Pre-European Contact/First Contact
Presentation on Spanish Conquest and Aztec Empire
Yesenia Ayala, Valerie Benoist, Deborah Michaels
Pre-European Contact/First Contact
This lesson plan encourages students to think critically about the accounts and events that occurred when Cortés and the Spaniards reached the…
Yesenia Ayala, Valerie Benoist, Deborah Michaels
Pre-European Contact/First Contact
Handout to analyze Columbus' diary