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The Newspapers In Education (NIE) Program strives to promote literacy and responsible

citizenship in children and young adults through the inclusion of newspapers with

regular classroom curricula.

ActivitiesExplore the world with the newspaper!

Make a list of the different countries you discover in the stories you read in today’s newspaper. Use a globe or map to locate the countries you have discovered.

Comprehension Questions Who discovered Iceland? __________ __________________________________

In what year did Erik the Red establish Erikholm in Greenland?___________________________________

Where did Leif Erikson go on his first voyage without his father? ___________________________________

What is the translation of Helluland? ______________________________________________________________________

What 3 places have scholars named as possible locations for Vinland?__________________________________ ,___________________________________ and ______________________________ .

Use a dictionary to define the following words. Write sentences using each word on a separate sheet of paper.discover _________________________________________________________________________________________________

explore _________________________________________________________________________________________________

establish ________________________________________________________________________________________________

journey _________________________________________________________________________________________________

settlement ______________________________________________________________________________________________

timber __________________________________________________________________________________________________

voyage __________________________________________________________________________________________________

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LEIF LUCKYTHE

You’ve probably heard the saying,

“In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…”, but did you know that Christopher Columbus was NOT the first European to discover North America?

Viking explorer Leif Erikson (Eriksson, Ericson, Ericsson) set foot on the North American shore nearly 500 years before Columbus!

Leif Erikson (approximately, 970 A.D. – 1020 A.D.) came from a long line of explorers. Leif’s great-great-great uncle, Nadod, discovered Iceland in about 861 A.D., and Leif’s father, Erik Thorwaldson (Erik the Red), established the first European settlement called Erikholm in Greenland around 980 A.D., after he was exiled from Iceland.

Leif’s love of the sea was probably learned early. As a boy, he would watch ships come into the harbor and listen to the sailors tell stories of adventures and far away lands that Leif had not seen.

At around the age of 20, Leif joined the family business of exploring. On his first voyage without his father, Leif sailed from Greenland to Norway to take gifts to a great Viking, King Olaf. During this voyage, Leif sailed to Norway without stopping in Iceland, like all the other explorers had done before him, and learned about two unexplored lands. One of the lands was well-forested and the other was an icy, mountainous island. After these exciting discoveries, Leif had a craving to do more exploring.

Around the year 1000 A.D., Leif set sail with a crew of men

and first landed on Newfoundland, which he named Helluland (Land of the Flat Stones). He then sailed to the well-forested land, Nova Scotia, which he named Markland (Wood-land).

Leif and his crew sailed for a few days until they saw an island and a ness, which is a cape or headland. Leif was so anxious to get to the land that he ran his boat ashore and boarded a smaller boat to continue the journey. Leif and his crew then sailed up a river and into a lake. Once they reached land, the men built large, sturdy

houses and began to explore. One night, Leif’s friend Tyrk returned to camp with grapes in his hand. The grapes inspired Leif to name the new land Vinland (Wine-land). The precise location of Vinland is unknown, but scholars have named Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New England as possibilities.

Leif and his crew stayed in Vinland for the fall and winter. The next year, they cut timber and gathered grapes to take back to Greenland. On their trip back to Greenland, Leif noticed a group of shipwrecked men on an island. Leif rescued them and took them back to Greenland with him, and earned the title “Leif the Lucky”.

In 1964, Congress authorized and

requested the President to create the observance of “Leif Erikson Day” through an annual proclamation. Lyndon B. Johnson and each President since have done so. Presidents have used the proclamation to praise the contributions of Americans of Nordic descent and the spirit of discovery.

Text sources: www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b2eriksonleif.htm; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson; http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761558409/Eriksson_Leif.html; http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/v_lief.htm; www.americanjourneys.org; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson_Day.

Photo sources: (clockwise from top) © Photographer: Lukas Hejtman | Catsi | Boguslaw Kupisinski | Prestong | Grethe Bjornas | Carole Nickerson | Chris Vika | Johanna Goodyear – Agency: Dreamstime.com; http://lifeboat.com/images/leif.erikson.jpg; http://www.lost-civilizations.net/images/vikings/vikingmap.gif; http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&q=+viking+ship&btnG=Search+Images

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