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 Objective: Students will identify the founder and early settlers of St. Augustine in order to explain why the community was established.

Today you are going to learn about St. Augustine, Florida, as well as learning about who Ponce de Leon was.

//Ponce de Leon was born in 1460 in Spain. He came with Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1493 and was made governor of the Higuy region of Santo Domingo. Ponce de Leon was very greedy and wanted lots of gold. He was also looking for the Fountain of Youth, which was a supposed spring that was said if you drank the water, you would stay young forever. de Leon and his men reached the east coast of Florida on April 2, 1513. He named the land "Pascua de Florida", or Feast of Flowers, because he discovered it on Palm Sunday. He claimed all of the land for Spain. //

**Read page 214-221 and watch the video on Ponce de Leon to learn more about him. TO begin, click on the video below to watch it and then read the pages in your book. You will be working together to write a BCR on Ponce de Leon.**

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 To begin, write your name and then your response to the question, what did Ponce de Leon hope to find in Florida.  Johne: He hoped to find Native American cities full of riches. Aisean: Ponce de Leon hoped to find Native American cities full of riches. Ai'isha: Ponce de Leon hoped to find Native American cities full of riches. Isaiah: Ponce de leon he wanted to find Native American cities full of riches and the pond to make him younger. Iris: He and his crew hoped to find Native American cities full of riches. Mason: He wanted to find the river. Morgan: Juan Ponce de Leon and his crew hoped to find Native American cities full of riches. Laura: Juan Ponce de Leon hoped to find Native American cities full of riches Antoine: The king wanted him to find the fountain that will make him younger. Jamal: He and his crew hoped to find Native American cities full of riches. Cost of Florida. Settlers with him hoped to build a city there. Jessica: He and his crwe hope to find Native American cities full of riches. Instead they only found beautiful land that was perfect for farming. Disappointed, he left. Londyn: He hoped to find native American cities full of riches and the river. Roland: He wanted to find the old fountain. Thomas: He wanted to explore the world and find Native Americans. Daron: Juan Ponce de Leon and his crew got on the boat and went with his family or something and he went to Florida. Devin: Juan Ponce de Leon and his hoped to find Native American cities full of riches. Kelly: he and his crew hoped to find Native American cities full of riches. Naomi: Juan Ponce de Leon hoped to find the fountain of youth. Also a lot of riches. Sadly he found a place good for farming. Taniya: Ponce de Leon came back to the northern cost floader in 1521, he hoped to build a city there. He went to puerto rico and back to spain. Daniel: I think he is going to find the water that makes him young. that's what I think.

Next, the first person will respond to this question. If you disagree, change the answer to what you think it should be. Remember to use examples from the text or video to support your answer.

BCR: Describe what Ponce de Leon hoped to find in Florida and also what it was that he found. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

He called the land Florida and Florida means full of flowers. He wanted to find the fountain of youth that was the water that makes him young again. He went to Puerto Rico and back to Spain. He left Florida and then came back in 1521 bringing 200 settlers with him. When Ponce de Leon returned his crew was attacked and he got killed by an arrow.