Analyze the SPANISH CONQUEST OF MEXICA 1519-1521 FROM MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES — Indigenous Nahua-voiced (Florentine Codex Book 12 + Anonymous Tlatelolco Manuscript) FIRST + Tlaxcalan + Spanish; centering La Malinche as strategic political actor (Townsend 2006) and refusing Restall's SEVEN MYTHS
Exercise
Difficulty 5
~15 min
hist.g7.s.ex_31
Claim Evidence Warrant
Prompt
Write a 300-word claim-evidence-warrant essay 'How does La Malinche (Malintzin) refuse Restall MYTH 5 ((mis)communication)?' Apply Townsend 2006 + MG-13a.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
rubric essay
rubric
- points
- 3
- criterion
- Refusal of 'mis-communication' myth
- points
- 4
- criterion
- Townsend 2006 + Malintzin as strategic political actor
- points
- 2
- criterion
- Malintzin's trilingual Nahuatl-Maya-Spanish noted
- points
- 3
- criterion
- Refusal of 'traitor' framing
- points
- 3
- criterion
- MG-13a applied
Hints
- Malintzin was enslaved by Tabascans then given to Cortés 1519 — had no political loyalty to Mexica.
- Townsend 2006 names her STRATEGIC POLITICAL ACTOR.
Misconceptions to watch
- Calling Malintzin 'traitor'
- Treating communication as failed
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