Henry Hudson Interactive Biography
By Micah's Learning Resources
He searched for a northern passage to Asia across four voyages, discovered a river, a bay and a strait that still carry his name, and was set adrift in a small boat by his mutinous crew, never to be seen again. This interactive biography gives students the full Henry Hudson: a capable if difficult English captain who sailed for the Dutch and the English alike in a desperate decade of Arctic exploration. What's Included: - Five life eras with public domain paintings and engravings, from the London streets through the two voyages for the Muscovy Company, the Dutch voyage that discovered the Hudson River, and the final disastrous winter in James Bay - A dual-track timeline that sets Hudson's own life against the world he moved through: the English and Dutch rivalry for northern trade routes, the founding of Jamestown, the Dutch East India Company, and the search for the Northeast Passage - All four voyages drawn on a real world map with direction arrows and place markers, including the routes north of Russia, the trip across the Atlantic to New York, and the final voyage into Hudson Bay - A twenty-node connections web of the people, ships and events around him: the Muscovy Company, the Dutch East India Company, John Smith, Samuel de Champlain, and the mutineer Robert Juet - Four primary sources with the evidence weighed for students, each paired with a caution about what the document can and cannot prove, plus close reading prompts - A fifteen-question check for understanding wi