Read the Fine Print
Educational Use
This role play begins with the premise that a monstrous crime was committed in the years after 1492, when perhaps as many as three million or more Taínos on the island of Hispaniola lost their lives. (Most scholars estimate the number of people on Hispaniola in 1492 at between one and three million; some estimates are lower and some much higher. By 1550, very few Taínos remained alive.)
Who — and/or what — was responsible for this slaughter? This is the question students confront here.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- History
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Teaching for Change and Rethinking Schools
- Provider Set:
- The Zinn Education Project
- Date Added:
- 10/08/2012