Vocabulary words to include in your entry:
1. Horizon: The line or circle that marks the boundary between earth and sky.
2. Dead reckoning: a method of figuring out your position by using the distance and direction traveled.
3. Natives: One of the people indigenous to a place or country.
4. Claim: To demand as a right or recognition.
Questions to answer in your entry:
1. What is the date you discovered land?
2. How long have you been at sea?
3. What is your first sighting of land (bird? fish? water color? mountain? natives?)
4. How do you plan on going on the land (Everyone at once? Send one person first? Small groups?)
5. For whom will you claim the land? (For example: "I will claim this land for the King of Spain. I will stick the Spanish flag into the ground.)
6. How are you feeling now? Do you feel accomplished?
1. Horizon: The line or circle that marks the boundary between earth and sky.
2. Dead reckoning: a method of figuring out your position by using the distance and direction traveled.
3. Natives: One of the people indigenous to a place or country.
4. Claim: To demand as a right or recognition.
Questions to answer in your entry:
1. What is the date you discovered land?
2. How long have you been at sea?
3. What is your first sighting of land (bird? fish? water color? mountain? natives?)
4. How do you plan on going on the land (Everyone at once? Send one person first? Small groups?)
5. For whom will you claim the land? (For example: "I will claim this land for the King of Spain. I will stick the Spanish flag into the ground.)
6. How are you feeling now? Do you feel accomplished?