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Title: Christopher Columbus


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Christopher Columbus
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What was special about Columbus?
I love to sail the ocean blue!
  • He was very tall.
  • He wore hats and long coats.
  • He sailed the ocean looking for new land.
  • He liked to explore.

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Columbus
  • Columbus was looking for a faster route to Asia
    to trade spices.
  • Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to North
    America in 1492 (Thats before your grandparents
    were born!)

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Christopher Columbus had 3 ships
  • Pinta
  • Nina
  • Santa Maria

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Life on a Ship
  • They ate meat, cheese, honey, raisins, rice, and
    fish.
  • They traveled for 5 LONG weeks.

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After sailing for 5 weeks, he discovered...
  • AMERICA!

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Christopher Columbus Holiday!
  • Columbus Day is celebrated on the second Monday
    in October.
  • It is a day in which we celebrate Christopher
    Columbus' trip!

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Questions
  • How many ships did Christopher Columbus have?
  • What did Columbus discover?
  • During what month do we celebrate Columbus Day?
  • Tell me something you learned about Christopher
    Columbus.

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Simple Works CitedGoogle.comwww.capstone-press.
com/ viewbook.cfm?rid3542Picture from images
site at Google.Google.comwww.ulster.net/hrmm/m
useum/ focsle/v22n2/lanina.htmlNina from Google
images. Google.comwww.kamalii.k12.hi.us/
EBC2000/history_2.htm3 ships from Google images.
Google.comwww.wallowa.k12.or.us/students/
explorers/explorers.htmlQuote about edge from
image site at Google. Google.comwww.alphabet-so
up.net/columbus/ columbus.htmlTitle page for
Christopher Columbus.Google.comwww.env.duke.edu
/esp/Earth image from Google images.
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Google.comwww.present-truth.org/Love20Letters/
myth/flat.htmFlat earth from Google images.
Google.comwww.kevinfrancis.co.uk/.../
All20Toby20Jugs.htmlComic photo of C.C. from
Google images.Google.comwww.reformation.org/
goldfinger.htmlRealistic photo of C.C. from
Google images. Caribbean-connection.comhttp//w
ww.caribbean-connection.com/christopher-columbus/
Picture of 3 ships.Enchantedlearning.comhttp//
www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/columbus/Picture
of Christophers route.Slideimaging.comhttp//
www.slideimaging.com/art0020.jpgPicture of ocean
sunset.Patriotpartysupply.comwww.patrioticparty
supply.com/ pledgeofallegiance.htmAmerican Flag
image.
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