Instructional Materials
COLUMBUS, CONQUEST, EXPLORATION
“What
was Columbus Thinking?”: A complete and in-depth
lesson plan provided by EdSitement Also see some of the many resources
on Columbus on the
CAC's Columbus page.
English
102, Enlightenment Communications, Professor William B. Warner: "Lecture
2: Crusoe and Friday and Colonial Mastery"- Lecture
Outline: I: Crusoe's Enlightenment analysis of Carib cannibalism: how to
respond? II: Crusoe's ambivalence and his compromise formation, III: Educating
Friday, IV: Defoe's prototype of the modern self and its power.
ARCHAEOLOGY AND PRE-COLONIAL
HISTORY
Background
for the Teaching of Caribbean Prehistory, by Emily R. Lundberg, March 1997:
Indigenous
Peoples in Caribbean Prehistory, Elementary School Level Lesson Plans,
by Emily Lundberg:
an in-depth outline of various
types of lessons, activities, and required materials, designed to teach
the Indigenous pre-Conquest history of the Caribbean.
Indigenous
Caribbean Peoples and Events: A teaching guide
that includes the following--Reading Assignments, The Pre-Columbus Amerindians,
Video Guide: Caribbean Eye Series: Indigenous Survivors.
Geography
3812, "Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean", schedule for Fall 1998,
by Prof. A David Hill--Aboriginal Geography of
the Caribbean, Aboriginal Patterns on Eve of Conquest: Lecture notes from
a Geography course at the University of Colorado.
Pre-Columbian
Myths and Legends, by Mary Jo Ramos, Sanda Prep School:
A course syllabus that requires students to explore precolumbian cultures,
mainly the Mayas and the Aztecs, including the conquest, through history
lectures, information from various videos, guest speakers, myths and legends.
Traces:
Historic Archaeology--This lesson plan, offered
by EdSitement, is framed by the following guiding question: "What artifacts
do archaeologists recover and what do we learn from them?" In answering
this question, students are asked to "recover" and analyze artifacts from
sites in use from the settlement period to the second half of the 19th
century, to look for similarities and differences among the artifacts and
the lives they reveal, and, students will also look at today's artifacts
of the future and consider how we will be viewed.
CARIBBEAN
HISTORY (HST 383), Department of History, Michigan State University, Instructor:
Aims McGuinness —“Course Description: This course
will trace the history of the Caribbean from the fifteenth century to the
present. The concept of "nation" in the Caribbean will receive special
attention throughout the semester. The course will begin with a discussion
of indigenous peoples and the early years of European settlement and colonization.”
Annotated
Guide to Internet Resources related to Caribbean History created by the
students of HST 383: Caribbean History, Department of History, Michigan
State University, Instructor: Aims McGuinness —reviews
of books and websites, a number of which relate to Caribbean Amerindian
studies are included here.
Interdisciplinary
Studies, "The Rhetoric of Travel, Exploration and Discovery", First Year
Seminar 100 (Scholars Seminar), Dr. Ramirez- Department of English, SUNY,
Oneonta: "Let's examine the idea of cannibalism
which seems to linger throughout Hernando Colon's account of Columbus's
trip from 1492-3. Keep in mind the following definitions (or senses) of
the word cannibal, Carib and Caribbean".
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Friday 13 April, 2007
Taíno Caves in the Dominican Republic:
An essay accompanied by an
extensive range of photographs of Taíno petroglyphs and pictographs, gathered
and arranged by Dr. Lynne Guitar
Anthropology/American
Indian Studies 2210: North American Indians, Course
Website: a comprehensive package of course notes is offered by this site,
including some material that encompasses Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.