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    The Incan Defeat

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    Subject: History, Social Studies

    Lesson Length: 50 - 55 mins

    Topic: Spanish Conquistadors

    Grade Level: 7

    Standards / Framework:

    Brief Description: Students will develop an understanding of how the Incas interacted with the Spanish Conquistadors.

    Know Before You Start: Students should have an understanding of what conspired between the Incas and the Spanish Conquistadors, specifically; Francisco Pizarro.

    Hook:

    • Ask students these leading questions: 

      • Why didn’t the Incas fight back?

      • How could such a small group of Spanish explorers defeat a large tribe like the Incas?

    • Discuss the possible reasons for the Incan defeat as a class.  

    Activity:

    • Have students research some of the reasons the Incas were defeated so easily by the Spanish Conquistadors.
    • Have students select one of those reasons and create a comic explaining its effect on the Incas defeat.

    Closure:

    • Students can submit completed comics to a shared platform for display and discussion. 

    Differentiation:

    • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

    • Preteach vocabulary.

    • Allow students to work with a peer model.

    • Provide sentence starters for discussion, research, and comic building.

    • Limit research tools, e.g., utilize one specific website.

    • Provide specific websites, text and resources for students to use to research their groups.

    Resources:

    • Comic to display or print: Comic. 

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    Suggested Story Starters:

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