Unit 2
Exploring Borderlands
Contact and Conflict in North America
Authors and Works 81
Overview Questions 81
Learning Objectives 82
Instructor Overview 82
Student Overview 84
Video Overview 85
Discussion Questions for the Video 87
Timeline 88
Author/Text Review 90
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) 90
Teaching Tips 91
Questions 92
Web Archive 92
Bartolome de la Casas (1474-1566) 93
Teaching Tips 95
Questions 95
Web Archive 95
Bernal Diaz del Castillo (1492-1566) 97
Teaching Tips 98
Web Archive 98
Questions 99
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-1588) 99
Teaching Tips 101
Questions 101
Web Archive 101
Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616) 102
Teaching Tips 103
Questions 103
Web Archive 103
Samuel de Champlain (c. 1570-1635) 105
Teaching Tips 106
Questions 106
Web Archive 106
Samuel de Champlain (c. 1570-1635) 105
Teaching Tips 104
Questions 106
Web Archive 106
John Smith (1560-1631) 107
Teaching Tips 108
Questions 110
Web Archive 110
Adriaen Van de Donck (1620-1655) 111
Teaching Tips 112
Questions 112
Web Archive 112
Americo Paredes (1915-1999) 113
Teaching Tips 114
Web Archive 114
Questions 115
Gloria Anzaldua (b. 1942) 115
Teaching Tips 116
Questions 117
Web Archive 117
Suggested Author Pairings 118
Core Contexts 120
Shared Spaces: Contact Zones and Borderlands 120
Web Archive 121
Questions 122
Writing without Words: A Native American View of Culture and the Conquest 123
Questions 125
Web Archive 125
Model Women: La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Llorona, and La Malinche as Archetypes of Mexican Femininity 126
Questions 129
Web Archive 129
Extended Contexts 130
Working Wonders: The Experience of “La Maravilla/The Marvelous” in New World Encounters 130
Web Archive 131
Questions 132
The Romance of Colonization 132
Web Archive 132
Questions 134
Assignments 134
Personal and Creative Responses 134
Problem-Based Learning Projects 135
Glossary 135
Selected Bibliography 138
Further Resources 139