Sept. 9, 2009: Henry's Hudson

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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.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. This week's standard:

• Students understand how historical events, people, places and situations contribute to our understanding of the past. (Social Studies)
  
  (standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)