Francis Drake Interactive Biography
By Micah's Learning Resources
He sailed around the world, raided Spanish ports from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and helped save England from the Armada. This interactive biography gives students the full Francis Drake: a privateer who began his career on slave-trading voyages, became the first English captain to circumnavigate the globe, and died of dysentery on a final expedition that was, by his own account, a failure. What's Included: - Five life eras with public domain paintings and engravings, from the Devon farm through the Hawkins slave voyages, the circumnavigation and the golden fleece, the Armada campaign, and the final disastrous expedition to the Spanish Main - A dual-track timeline that sets Drake's own life against the world he moved through: the Anglo-Spanish rivalry, the Elizabethan religious wars, and the Spanish colonization of the Americas - Five journeys drawn on a real world map with direction arrows and place markers, including the circumnavigation shown as one continuous westward line from Plymouth back to Plymouth, and the raids on Spanish ports - A twenty-node connections web of the people, ships and events around him: Queen Elizabeth, Philip II of Spain, John Hawkins, the Cimarron alliance, and Francis Fletcher - 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 with explanations How It Works: One file. Open it in any browser
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