Assignment 2: Christopher Columbus Video Analysis

Outcomes
After completing this assignment, students will be able to:
Describe how the explorations of Columbus opened the doors to transatlantic immigration
because of the establishment of European colonies in the New World.
Explain a few of the ways Native Americans and Africans were affected by the colonization
of the New World.
Overview
In this assignment, you will watch a short video clip to further develop your understanding of our
content. Following the video, you will complete the Video Analysis Sheet which will help you take
part in our follow-up discussion on Day 2 of this module.
Instructions
1. Pre-Viewing: BEFORE watching this video, complete the Pre-Viewing questions on the Video
Analysis Sheet. (Click on link below.)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9095665/Video%20Analysis%20Sheet.docx

2. Viewing: Take notes as you watch the video which will help you answer our essential
question.
(Using your password, click link below to watch The Importance of Christopher Columbus)
(1:13)



3. Post-Viewing: AFTER watching the video, complete the Post-Viewing questions on the Video
Analysis Sheet.
4. Follow-Up Classroom Discussion: During our Socratic Circle, we will talk about our prior
schema, share something that we learned, and make inferences to thought provoking
questions.
Submitting
To submit your assignment to your instructor, save your MS Word file as a DOC/DOCX file and
name in the following manner:
lastnamefirstinitial_assign2 (i.e., fosterc_assign2.docx)
Submit your finished work to the assignment 2 link in the Submissions area of Moodle before 11:59
p.m. U.S. EST/EDT on the last day of this module.
Grading
Assignment 2: Video Analysis will count as one of your assignment grades using the following rubric.
Video Analysis Rubric
Score 4 3 2 1
Video
Identification
All 5 sections of
Video
Identification are
complete.

Only 3-4 sections
of Video
Identification are
complete

Only 1-2 sections
of Video
Identification are
complete.

Video
Identification is
missing.

Pre-Viewing
Pre-viewing section
is clear and specific
by citing ones
schema from prior
learning.
Pre-viewing
section is clear
and specific with
some elaboration.
Pre-viewing section
is clearly stated
with no elaboration.
Pre-viewing
section is
missing.
Viewing
Viewing section
ideas are specific
and they are clearly
stated with full
elaboration.

Viewing section
ideas are stated
with some
elaboration.
Viewing section
ideas are provided
but no elaboration.
Viewing section
ideas are not
provided.
Post-Viewing
Post-Viewing
section ideas are
specific and they
are clearly stated
with full
elaboration.

Post-Viewing
section ideas are
stated with some
elaboration.
Post-Viewing
section ideas are
provided but no
elaboration.
Post-Viewing
section ideas are
not provided.