Analyze the ENCOUNTER between Europeans and the peoples of the Americas as the COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE — biological, cultural, ecological, and demographic transformation including ~90% Indigenous mortality 1492-1600
Exercise Difficulty 4 ~12 min hist.g7.s.ex_28

Claim Evidence Warrant

MG-13 Diagram
DECOLONIAL TOOLKIT poster — 18x24 inch wall poster summarizing Mignolo + Quijano + Santos + Tuck + Yang + Smith decoloni

DECOLONIAL TOOLKIT poster — 18x24 inch wall poster summarizing Mignolo + Quijano + Santos + Tuck + Yang + Smith decolonial moves. FOUR DECOLONIAL MOVES: (1) Refuse single-modernity narrative; (2) Name coloniality alongside modernity (modernity/coloniality couplet); (3) Center suppressed epistemologies; (4) Attend to ongoing afterlives. Each move illustrated with a Lesson-application example. Critical anchor: Tuck + Yang 2012 'decolonization is not a metaphor' — material land/sovereignty/repatriation refused as mere classroom rhetoric.

Prompt

Write a 200-word claim-evidence-warrant essay 'Why does the term ENCOUNTER replace DISCOVERY?' Apply MG-13 Decolonial Toolkit + MG-13a Multi-Perspective-Encounter Promise + cite at least 2 Indigenous peoples by name.

How it's presented
mode text
Answer criteria
type rubric essay
rubric
points
3
criterion
Refusal of 'discovery'
points
3
criterion
2+ Indigenous peoples named
points
3
criterion
MG-13 Decolonial Toolkit applied
points
3
criterion
MG-13a applied
Hints
  1. Every land Europeans 'arrived at' was already populated.
  2. MG-13a: every encounter from at least 2 perspectives + Indigenous + African voices named FIRST.
Misconceptions to watch
  • Using 'discovery' word
  • Ignoring Indigenous peoples by name
Used in lessons