Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Perspective
Today we read the book Encounter by Jane Yolen. It told the story of Christopher Columbus' arrival in San Salvador from the perspective of a young Taino boy. Recount the details of the story that showed a very different opinion of exploration than other views we have examined. Formulate your response into a well-written paragraph.
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I think that this child is scared. He had a dream about the scary people and they treated them like animals. I think that the natives were friendly and the boy was scared, the Spanish were scared and Columbus was only interested in the gold. I also think that the boy was scared about getting taken away from his homeland. I felt really sad for the boy in that story but it was a really good book.
ReplyDeletesmoking confused Columbus and all people exchanged goods. Everybody was confused about where Colombushad come from.
ReplyDeleteToday we learned about an explorer in a different way than we usually learn about explorers. The story that the Taino boy told was like a personal narrative, sharing his life experience of meeting Christopher Columbus. This story was different because it was not just facts like we usually learn from our teachers. Taino shared his thinking about how he and others felt different from Christopher Columbus because of their skin. Facts are very specific, but they don't include a lot of details that are told in personal stories. The story had a lot more expression than just facts. I felt like I could understand that time a lot better beacuse I knew how the boy was feeling. Facts don't share their feelings. Facts are easier to remember when they are told in a story. We can relate to stories better than facts because stories are personal. You have to think a lot more when you read a story so that you understand the story.
ReplyDeleteConnor Ellertson said:
ReplyDeleteColumbus's crew were obsessed with gold and he wanted to settle island he found - which was North America. He wanted to bring back gold for himself and the Queen and King of Spain.
here is my current events article for 10-06-09
ReplyDelete"Greece" has been a bad word in the gold industry for a long time, as political and local opposition has made life extremely tough for gold mining companies. But there was a huge breakthrough on Tuesday, as the government approved a preliminary environmental impact study from European Goldfields Ltd., which wants to develop the Skouries and Olympia projects. These are massive deposits with more than 8 million ounces of gold reserves.
Investors are treating this announcement as a major positive, and so is Canaccord Adams analyst Nick Chalmers.
"Although not quite the final piece of the permitting jigsaw, in our view today's news represents a major de-risking event — we believe it is now more a question of when, not if, permitting is concluded," he wrote in a note to clients.
Mr. Chalmers added that he expects that market attention will now turn to financing, as European Goldfields' projects have a combined capital requirement US$515-million over the next two years. The fact that the projects are in the EU (a relatively safe jurisdiction) should help the company secure debt financing, he noted.
Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/tradingdesk/archive/2009/10/06/gold-breakthrough-in-greece-finally.aspx#ixzz0TCXJN1N1