Henry Hudson -- Issue 36 -- Sept. 5-11, 2009

This week's standards:
Students understand how historical events, people, places and situations contribute to our understanding of the past. (Social Studies)

Activities:
1. Paste on a large piece of paper pictures of local fruits, vegetables and meats that you could trade with an explorer.

2. Find someone in today's newspaper who would make a good explorer. Write several sentences telling why you chose this person.

3. Find in the newspaper five modern devices that would have helped Hudson in his exploration. Write a sentence for each telling how it would have helped.

4. Where did Hudson face difficulty because of (a) ice, (b) shallow waters and (c) a mutiny?

5. Pretend you are on one of Hudson's voyages. Write a short story telling of your adventures.

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)