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When we read the exact words that someone said (the
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sentences in quotation marks), we can change our voice for a better intention. For more tips on improving pronunciation, go to page 115.
People from the Past Part 2
Cristopher Columbus wrote the earliest account of a hurricane in a letter he sent to Queen Isabella in 1494: “My eyes had never seen the seas so high and angry. The sky never looked more terrible. The ashes came with such fury that we all thought the ships would be destroyed. Only God and the Monarchy can make me face this danger again.” These storms were new to the explorers, so they needed a special name. Fray Bartolomé de las Casas wrote in a book: “Four vessels
This is a good example of a characteristic of many
ancient cultures. Their deities were related to elements or forces from the natural world they saw and which
sometimes they were afraid of. The gods of the sun and the moon, for example, were common to most civilizations because everybody could see them. However, some divinities existed only in certain places thanks to the natural aspects in those regions. For instance, there were gods of corn in the Americas but not in other continents because they did not have corn. And there were not gods based on horses or sheep in the Americas as people did not know these animals before the Spaniards took them there.
were destroyed by a great tempest that the locals call Huracan .” Huracan was the name of the Mayan god of wind, storm, and re.
2 Work in teams to write two more countries on the first column.Then discuss and check the gods they could have had in the past based on the natural characteristics of those places.
God of Ocean God of Volcano God of Lake
God of Cenote
Mexico Uganda
3 Have you ever felt afraid of a natural phenomenon (thunderstorm, fire, earthquake, tornado, etc.)? Create and draw a god to represent it as a comic. Share and describe it to a partner.
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