Thursday, October 30, 2008

how to finish annotation

write how the website is helping you and what the website told u and how or what ur goin to use the document and wheter its a secondary or primary source. Talk about how the article or website can help you for your project. Talk about the facts that was stated in the article for your first paragraph. Talk about primary source or secondary source in your second paragraph. state how it can help u in your second paragraph

4th annotation due tuesday oct 28

"Christopher Columbus Spanish Explorer ." Barlette School 2000 30 Oct 2008 .

I have spent the last year on my second voyage across the Ocean Sea. Sadly, I found the fort and the men that I left behind from the first voyage dead. I do not know what happened to them. I built a new village on another island. My men found gold on this island! I sent a load of gold back to Spain. The Indians were not as friendly this time, and I was forced to kill many of them.

third annotation due friday Oct 24

HTTP://WWW.COLUMBUSNAVIGATION.COM/DESTRUCT.SHTML
1997-2006 BY KEITH A. PICKERING

Therefore, when the Spanish took a number of Native Americans as prisoners on Hispaniola, Columbus saw an opportunity for profit. In 1496, he sent 300 of these prisoners to Spain, to be sold as slaves. The Spanish had come to America as conquerors.

Second Annotation Due Tuesday October 21

Hale, Edward. The Life of Christopher Columbus. The Carribean: Project Gutenberg, 1892.

They remained so friendly to us that it was wonderful. “They would be good servants, of good disposition, for I see that they repeat very quickly everything which is said to them. I believe that they could easily be made Christians

Sunday, October 19, 2008

1st annotated due friday oct 17

"Christopher Columbus: Explorer." enchantedlearning.com. n/ana2000. enchanted learning. 19 Oct 2008 .

They landed on an island they called Guanahani, but Columbus later renamed it San Salvador. They were met by the local Taino Indians, many of whom were captured by Columbus' men and later sold into slavery. Columbus thought he had made it to Asia, and called this area the Indies, and called its inhabitants Indians.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

NHD Topic Selection

I chose Christopher Columbus for my NHD project because i disagree with the way he is portrayed by many americans as a founder the Americas'. I want to prove to americans he is no more than a common criminal and discovered nothing. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/c/columbus.shtml