For Part 1, read the article Reading Primary Sources.pdf and choose 3 key themes from the document that you find most interesting. Spend one paragraph discussing each theme (for a total of 3 paragraphs). In each paragraph, you should clearly identify the theme you have chosen in the first sentence, spend several sentences explaining the theme and providing examples from the article to illustrate your theme, and conclude with 1-2 sentences discussing why you think that particular theme is significant for understanding history. Each paragraph should thus be at least 6-7 sentences in length.For 

Part 2, you will become a historian by applying what you have learned. For this part, you will analyze one of the primary sources you should have already read from Unit 1 and from the textbook. Your answer in Part 2 should clearly reflect what you learned about analyzing sources in Part 1. Full points will not be awarded for answers that merely identify or summarize the primary source.  Rather, they should (as the article notes), “identify it, contextualize it, explore it, analyze it, and evaluate it.https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/the-new-world/…

Describe the document you have been assigned and explain why it should be considered a primary source. Then, using what you learned from the article, analyze the significance of the document for historians while keeping the following question in mind:

What does this document tell us about pre-Columbian Native societies, pre-contact European culture, and how both sides changed as a result of these interactions?