The biography of Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan is a voyager of Portugal in the Age of Discovery. He is known as the challenger of a voyage round the world. Little is known about his life before he challenged the around-the-world voyage. He was born in around 1480 in the suburbs of Porto. He served the court of Portugal in 1492. He knew the discovery of America by Columbus, and he developed an interest in voyages.

He embarked on a voyage round the world in 1519. He passed through the south end of South America, the Pacific. But he was killed on the battlefield in Cebu Island, Philippines. He could not accomplish a voyage round the world, but I think his achievement is the discovery of the Pacific as an ocean and the signifying the size of the Earth.

Oceans in Danger

Readers will have to forgive the poor rendering of this excellent poster - my scanner is not big enough, and my iPhone is too small!

This is Takuro's poster as a follow up to the cool National Geographical reader he just finished on Oceans. The book was so interesting I had to read it as well, and the chapter quizzes were a lot of fun/challenging!

As you can see, he worked hard to produce an important message - and one I would love to see/hear more young Japanese people making (especially today, with the news that the Japanese whale hunting season is about to start 'with better security').

Let's hear it for Takuro and his sound ecological opinions!