New World Explorers
READ ALOUD: Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan by Jean Fritz and Anthony Bacon Venti
Chapter 1: Before the Explorers
Chapter 2: Prince Henry the Navigator – Bartholomew Diaz
Chapter 3: Christopher Columbus
Chapter 4: Vasco da Gama
Chapter 5: Pedro Alvares Cabral
Chapter 6: John Cabot
Chapter 7: Amerigo Vespucci
Chapter 8: Juan Ponce de León
Chapter 9: Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Chapter 10: Ferdinand Magellan
Chapter 11: After Magellan
Galileo Galilei
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Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei by Peter Sís
Along Came Galileo
Christopher Columbus
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Spanish Explorers
CURRICULUM: America the Beautiful by Charlene Notgrass
Lesson 7: Our American Story: Native Americans Meet Spaniards
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold!
And to get understanding is to be chosen above silver.
Proverbs 16:16
READ ALOUD: The Light & The Glory for Young Readers by Peter Marshall and David Manuel
Chapter 3: Martyrs for Jesus
And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness did not comprehend it.
John 1:5
READ ALOUD: EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST: The Americas After Columbus, 1500-1620
READ ALOUD: The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History by Jennifer Armstrong
1680 – The Knotted Rope
READ ALOUD: Follow the Dream by Peter Sis
READ ALOUD: Encounter by Jane Yolen and David Shannon
Writing Prompt: ‘What would you take to sea?’
First City: St. Augustine
CURRICULUM: America the Beautiful by Charlene Notgrass
Lesson 10: An American Landmark: St. Augustine, America’s Oldest European City
CURRICULUM: We the People by Bethany Poore
Florida Tourism Advertisement, 1920
READ ALOUD: The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History by Jennifer Armstrong
1565 – First City
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