For the Exploration or Exploitation project we were asked to answer the essential question, "Did Cortes contribute to the greater progress or overall decline of the human race?" We did not study the story of how Mexico came to be in a traditional sense. For our project each student was assigned the role of either an important figure of this time in history, doctor, or an attorney. For our final project we performed a trail to declare if Cortes was innocent or guilty in front of a judge at the Supreme Court in downtown.
I played the role of La Malinche, an Aztec Princess who was born in the 1500s in Painala. La Malinche was the translator/interpreter of Hernán Cortés and the Spanish conquistadores. After gathering information about La Malinche my attorneys crafted questions to ask me during trial. |