5/4/3/2/1 NOTES # 5

5-COMMENTS:

*The characters had a discussion about the type of farming that the native Americans in Peru, the Inca Empire, could have use during their time.

*The characters started traveling to Lake Titicaca, which will take them about a day to get there.

*In 1572, when the Spanish arrived to Vilcabamba, they found the city destroyed and burned with no one there but Tupac Amaru, the reigning Inca. They believe that maybe the Indians went to El Gran Paititi.

*El Gran Paititi is a synonymous of El Dorado in Peru for 400 years. Experts believe that there is where El Dorado legend started.

*El Dorado, supposedly in Peru, was the goal of Francisco Pizarro according to the author.

4-QUESTION:

*Did the Spanish find El Dorado?

*who came in 1572?

*is Lake Titicaca one of the largest lakes in the world?

*Is El Dorado just a legend?

3-VOCABULARY:

*summit: the highest point; top.

*mittens: a glove with a thumb but not separately divided fingers.

*lowermost: the most lower.

*encourage: to give support to.

2-LITERARY TERMS:

*DIALOGUE: at the beginning of chapter five, the characters discuss about the farming that they believed could be used by the native Americans.

*Monologue: after the dialogue, one of the characters stays alone and says some lines while he is by himself in the night.

1-SUMMARY:
*In this chapter, chapter five, at the beginning the characters talk about the supposed farming used by the native Americans. Afterwards the author speaks and explains some details about El Dorado, and who wanted to find it , besides they also talked about the arriving of the Spanish in 1572, however most of the time the writer talks about El Dorado.