Drake’s West Indian Voyage 1588-1589

Lesson Overview | Preparation | Procedure | Evaluation

Preparation

Before leading students through the exploration process, teachers should make themselves familiar with the background of this series of maps by reading Francis Drake’s Voyage in Early Maps. Each of the maps will print in 9 sections. Before class, collate the pieces of the location maps (St. Augustine, Santiago, Cartagena, and Santo Domingo) into a single stack, alternating pieces from each map (A, B, C, D). When distributed, students adjacent to each other will have pieces from different maps.

Materials

The following materials will be used in this lesson.

• Analyzing Maps form (multiple maps version)[PDF/25k] (one per student for day one; optional: one per group for day two)
• Drake Maps: West India Voyage (printed in color, 5 maps)
  • Santiago [PDF/24.45M] (print one set of 9 pages)
  • Santo Domingo [PDF/16.87M] (print one set of 9 pages)
  • Cartagena [PDF/20.01M] (print one set of 9 pages)
  • St. Augustine [PDF/25.42M] (print one set of 9 pages)
  • Entire Voyage [PDF/16.78M] (print one set of 9 pages)
• Francis Drake’s Voyage in Early Maps (overview) [PDF/81k] (one per student)

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Resources

The following resources will be used in this lesson

Library of Congress Resources

• Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 1585-6
• The Sir Francis Drake Collection: Drake Timeline
• The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake
• The Sir Francis Drake Collection: The Actors and their Stage
• Sir Francis Drake: A Pictorial Biography by Hans P. Kraus
• S. Augustini: pars est terra Florida
  
• Drake’s Attack on St. Augustine
• The Cultures and History of the Americas
  
• John Bull and Uncle Sam