This picture shows colorful background that jacques Carties saw.He and his sailers were surprised by what they met: colorful land and strange Iroquois.In this picture he wears imperial uniform and exhibit surprised face to us. The Iroquois were doing their native dance and didn't care about the sailers.
Ten facts about Jacques Cartier:
- Cartier was born in 1491 in Saint -Malo.
- He claimed what is now Canada for France.
- He was the first who described and mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrece.
- He was the first person who described the shores of the Saint Lawrence which he named "The Country of Canada.
- He was a respectable mariner, improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Mary Catherine Granches, member of a leading family.
- The Jacques Cartier is approximately 35 kilometres wide at its narrowest point.
- He was looking for a passage through or around North America to East Asia.
- He made the crossing of the Atlantic in only twenty days, and landed on an island near the coast of Newfoundland
- Cartier himself went west, looking for Saguenay, but got no further than Hochelaga.
- Cartier spent the rest of his life in St.-Malo and his nearby estate, and died in 1557, aged 66.
He claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first who described and mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrece and the shores of the Saint Lawrence which he named "The Country of Canada.The other is he described the Honguedo Strait on the south side of Anticosti Island.
6. First Nations people were the original people who lived in Canada before the Europeans came. Imagine how you would feel seeing the Europeans for the first time. What would you think? What would you say? What would you do?Watch this video and then answer question 6 carefully in 5-8 sentences.
Historica Minutes: Jacques Cartierhttp://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10123
If I was the original people who lived in Canada and saw the Europeans for the first time, I might be very confusing by what I just saw.It's because I have never seen those people before ,they have different face、 wear different clothes and speak different language from us.I would say where are you come from and how did you seek out there.In any case, I will invite them to look around our land after making sure all of them bear no ill will.Maybe, I could learn something new from them.
7. Watch these two videos and answer the questions.
Video 1: Canada: A People's History: Jacques Cartier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NrAOWiVG_o&NR=1a.
a. What did you learn from this video in 5-8 sentences?
He was looking for a passage through or around North America to East Asia.He traveled there not for fish or people but his king's ordered.His king needs some cloths made by fur-bearer and asked Jacques Cartier traveled to the land to get them from Indian people. Jacques Cartier exchanged of commodities and culture with them.Jacques Cartier believed Jesus and pray before every explores.
Video 2:Hochelaga -- His journey continues...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj5tq5VfzIgb.
b. What did you learn from this video in 5-8 sentences?
After sailing 150 miles, Jacques Cartier found a large new land on October second 1535.It was a spares land almost wildness. He rename this mountain Nokia. He found one kind of tobaccos in this land.He has to leave soon before spring and back to England but the ice covered his ship. He and his man were not preparing for this,so some of his man met a big difficult because of the severe cold. Jacques Cartier pray the god to help them passing the serious.Such a long time ago, he still found nothing to his king, then he asked his teo sons to help him.
8. What is scurvy? Find a picture of scurvy and post it on your blog.
Scurvy is nothing more than a serious deficiency of vitamin C and leads to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums and bleeding from almost all mucous membranes. Vitamin C is essential for the body to manufacture collagen, the connective tissue that helps form healthy bones, teeth, and capillaries, and promotes wound healing.
9. What happened to Donnaconna?
Donnaconna was the first Indian leader of note to resist the French incursion into tribal territory in present-day Canada. When the French explorer Jacques Cartier erected a cross at the Iroquoian village of Stadacona in July, 1534, the village chief, Donnaconna, strenuously objected. Cartier forced him aboard his French ship on the banks of the St. Lawrence River adjacent to Stadacona.After some negotiations, Cartier released him but took Donnaconna's two sons, Domagaya and Taignoagny, captive.
10. How would you feel if you were Donnaconna or the Iroquois people? Would you be friends with the French after this experience?
I will become agressive because they seive the city from Indian people .I don't think that I can still bear to make friends with the French.
11. Read page 221-222 of your textbook.
The information on these pages are important.Find the words in bold on these two pages. Translate them and write a new sentence with them using your own words. Post it here.
archipelago:A group of islands.
new sentence:Japen is an archipelago country which near the sea.
Scurvy:A disease caused by a deficiency of VitaminC.
new sentence:Sailers are easier catching scurvy without vitaminC.
Immunity:The ability of an organism to resist a specifit infection,toxin,etc.
new sentence:People with sickness always have low immunity.
Pyrites:A yellow lustrous from of iron disulphide.
new sentence:Pyrites is a kind of irons.
Treachery:Violation of faith or trust.
new sentence:You can't believe the person whose character includes treachery.
Bonus 
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You can write more for some of the questions.
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