VISUAL ACTIVITYSpanish Missionary in Florida This sixteenth-century picture illustrates the methods Spanish missionaries used to teach Christianity to Native Americans. The picture shows the importance of reading and the punishment for students who did not measure up to the missionaries' expectations.READING THE IMAGE: Aside from the doctrines of Christianity, what are the Native American students being taught by these methods of instruction?CONNECTIONS: How did missionary activity among the English colonists in the seventeenth-century southern colonies differ from that among the Spanish colonies?

The Granger Collection, New York.