Fifth Annotation Due Friday November 7

"Columbus Day- A History." 30 Oct 2008 .

This website is about Christopher Columbus and his voyages around the globe. This website explains why Christopher Columbus Day is important. This site talks ask and answers questions about Christpher Columbus. Also it talks about the Myths and Facts about Christopher Columbus. This website give questions for whoever goes on the website to answer the questions.

This website will be a secondary source because the website was mostly asking and answering questions besides just giving information about Christopher Columbus. This website was very helpful to me because it gave the Myths and Facts about Christopher Columbus. It talk about the years from his teenage years to his death.

Fourth Annotation Due Tuesday October 28

Gale, Thomas. "Christopher Columbus ." Encyclopedia Of World Biography 2005-2006 30 Oct 2008 .


This website posted a short biography on Christopher Columbus as an Italian Navigator. This article talked about how Christopher Columbus discovered America. Also this article talked about Christopher Columbus and his family in his early life. It stated that Christopher Columbus had a meager education and learned to read and write in latin and castilian later in life. He married the daughter of Bartolomeu Perestrelo.

This article will be considered an secondary source. This article is an secondary source because it an book by Stephen Krensky who wrote information in the book that was already told by another author. This was an helpful article because it told more about his earlier life.

Second Annotation Due Tuesday October 21

"The Biography of Christopher Columbus." A&E Television Networks 1996-2008 21 Oct 2008 .

This site gives an Biography about Christopher Columbus. The biography tells when Christopher Columbus was born which was 1451. It tells that Christopher Columbus brought more new diseases to the hemisphere. Christopher Columbus made new routes from the Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and The Carribean Ocean. Christopher Columbus had started the Columbian Exchange which involves people, plants, gold, and other goods.

This site will be consider an secondary source because the site had information from other websites and encyclopedias. This site can still help me because it can gave information that was hard to find.

First Annotation Due Friday October 17

"Christopher Columbus." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 16 Oct. 2008 .


This article talks about Christopher Columbus in his early life. This article also talks about the voyages that Christopher Columbus had been through. Christopher Columbus only went on four voyages and then died. Christopher Columbus went to places like Santa Maria, Cuba, and the Canary Islands.

This article will be consider an primary source. This article is an primary source because this article came from an encyclopedia and information from The Library of Congress. This article really help me on Christopher Columbus. This article help me because it had the basic information on who was Christopher Columbus.

Topic Selection Post

I chose Christopher Columbus for my NHD Project because I'm interested in how Christopher Columbus is a good explorer. Christopher Columbus has his own holiday and in history books they make Christopher Columbus look like a good guy. Christopher Columbus took land from the Native Americans. I want to prove that Christopher Columbus is not really a hero.