As you prepare for Friday's Roundtable discussion, use BOTH the Bailey text and American Pagaent readings to make a convincing argument for each question. Reminder: Summer Work will be turned in first thing during class on Friday.
All Groups: Identify some of
the factors that contributed to the discovery of America.
Group Assignments
1.
What role did
Portuguese navigators and, later, Spanish explorers play in opening up new
lands to European commerce? Who were the leading explorers?
2.
How did the
American Indians live at the time of the voyages of Columbus? How did they earn
their livings? Govern themselves?
3.
Discuss the first
attempts at English colonization of America. Who led these efforts? Why did
they fail? Why did colonization eventually succeed?
4.
Discuss the
successes and failures of the Virginia colony and the later role played by the
cavaliers. What caused the Bacon Rebellion? What role did
freebooting and national rivalry play in the settlement of America?
5.
Compare the two
Carolinas. How did they differ? How was Georgia settled? What characteristics
did the plantation colonies share?
7 comments:
The method that we used in class today for deciphering "is he not in Congo land" was very useful to me. We learner that Africa was a very hot place with boring scenery. Africa's food was also very different from the Europeans food. We also learned that Africans don't give water to strangers because water is scarce so they save it for themselves. Instead they give thirsty travelers wine to quench their thirst. Another thing we learned about Africans is that they weren't as smart as Europeans back then and the Europeans thought it would be impossibole for an African to nurse them back to health.
The tools we used in class on thursday which were deciphering and defining hard words helped me have a greater understanding of what the passage "Is He Not In Congo Land" was about. I feel as though if the Africans had been educated and if they'd had the proper tools then the young man would have lived. But because they were uneducated and had the lack of resources they were unable to save the young man possibly others that weren't spoken of in the passage. So to link this to the sub essential question "Why is Africa considered to be a Dark continent?" My answer would be because it is speculated to be a place where its people are illied skilled and unable to do basic actions such as read a book or write a letter.
eI also think deciphering "Is he not in Congo-land" was really helpful. It was really frustrating to read the article on my own, because the writing style was so old, and I didn't understand the story's point. Now after breaking it down, I know that the excerpt was about the scenery that the author saw and the Africans he met. He traveled on Congo’s dangerous river, which he describes as a “hateful, murderous river, so broad and proud and majestically calm, as though it had not bereft me of a friend, and of many faithful souls...” He later says that traveling up the river was boring, because he would always see the same kind of landscape. He also talks about how little food there was, and tells a story of a European explorer who gets sick with a fever and is treated poorly by an African doctor. This article makes Africa seek like its unlivable, because the rivers are killing people, there’s not enough food, and no one could help you recover if you were sick.
The method of deciphering "Is He Not In Congo Land" was very usefull to me because before i had no clue what the story was about. Now I at least have a better understanding as to what the story is about.I have learned that there were many struggles back than in the way they were taught such as their education for medical purposes. In the end it talks about how a young man fell ill and they had no real way to make him better it is said they took care of his medical needs in a "rude unskilful way, and a rough but kindly nursing of him." they had no clue how to make him better all they could do was patch him up and hope for the best. They lacked the knowledge it took to help him young or old had not a clue as to what it could have been "there is not one of them can make an approachable guess at the real cause which cut him off so prematurely".
Rerma Richards
The European expected the Africans to accept that was given to them by the European such as medicine and food. They do not care what the Africans want to eat or what they’d eat. The Europeans just gave the Africans food to compromise with. For example in the article "Is he not in Congo-land?" It states, "Of food there is abundance, but not much variety. It may comprise soup of beans or vegetables, followed by toasted chikwanga(cassava-bread), fried or stewed fowl, a roast fowl, or roast leg of goat meat, a dish of dessicated potatoes, or yams, roast bananas, boiled beans, rice and curry, or rices with honey, or rice and milk, finishing with tea or coffee, or palm-wine..." That is what the Europeans eat. The Europeans would give that food to the Africans.
The Africans did not like it and they felt sad with darkness in their heart. Some Africans could not take the Europeans culture. Some African individuals got sick. For example," In the summery a man had the fever. The Europeans offers him alcohol which is making him feel worst.” That shows the European just giving the Africans what they thought was best. Most of the Europeans food and medicine was from their culture. Some Africans cried. The Africans dealt with Europeans different. For example, “Africa, and the unsophisticated mannikins who to-day are digging their eyes out with weeping at the memories of a European restaurant before they have been scarcely three months out! That proves how the Africans felt about the European food which is a part of the European culture.
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