A World of Surprises Found While on the Voyage of Discovery

by Aliya K

GREEN GROUP

Today's date 1/30/2018

Headline: A World of Surprises

Author: Lorenzo Camusso

Source of the Article: PDF online

Three Vocabulary Words:

1. yuca; root veggie that is a great alternative to potatoes.

2. cob; central, cylindrical, woody part of a corn ear.

3. abundance; a very large quantity of something.

Summary: This article is about Columbus's discoveries on the land he found on the southeastern most tip of cuba. Things like corn, tobacco, and hammocks are some of the things he discovered. Caribbean parrots, palm trees, mahiz, coral, yuca, gold, silver, "indies", pepper, and cotton as well. He mistaken the people as indians since he didn't know he was in someplace else.