Agenda/Homework

Unit:  Africa Sub-Sahara – Struggling with Independence

Date

Learning Goal and/or Standard

Essential Question/Table Talk

Agenda

Homework

Mon

2/6

Standards:  1B, 2B

Analyze the historical background of various contemporary societies to evaluate relationships between past conflicts and current conditions. Evaluate the social, political, economic, and cultural contributions of individuals and groups from various societies, past and present.

How have past conflicts affected the current boundaries and conditions of Sub-Sahara Africa?

 

 

 

 

Warm Up: What do you know about Africa’s history?

 

Constructing a Timeline of African History

  1. View Ancient African Empires
  2. Match map cards, titles, and descriptions of important periods in Africa’s history.
  3. Organize the map cards in chronological order and glue to timeline.
  4. Shade portions of the timeline that correspond to each of the eight periods.
  5. Discuss key themes of African history.

Physical Map due Wednesday

 

Week6 Homework  due Thursday

 

 

 

 

Tue

2/7

Standards:  1B, 2B

See Monday

How have past conflicts affected the current boundaries and conditions of Sub-Sahara Africa?

 

Warm-up:  What was happening in Africa in the 1800’s?

 

Constructing a Timeline of African History

  1. Complete timeline

 

Review ME test results

Physical Map due tomorrow

 

Week6 Homework  due Thursday

 

Wed

2/8

 

 

What are the names of the descendants of the early Dutch settlers to the Southern region of Africa?

 

Warm-up:  What is an Afrikaner?

 

Physical Map of Africa

  1. Grade physical map

Political Map

  1. View power point of political map of Africa and label important geographic features and note cultural elements

Week6 Homework  due tomorrow

 

Review for quiz over the geography of Africa on Friday

 

Thu

2/9

LG4 – Analyze how the apartheid policy affected South Africa politically, after gaining independence and compare the characteristics of Nigeria’s unlimited government with its new limited government.

Standards:  1B, 2B, 11D

What does apartheid mean? What country in Africa enforced the system of apartheid?

 

 

 

 

Warm Up: What do you know about the word apartheid? What parts of the word do you know the meaning to?

 

Understanding Apartheid in South African History

  1. Read “Overview of Apartheid” and view images of apartheid
  2. After reading information and examining images, students will complete the missing portion of the image and answer the following question for each event: Based on the reading and the image, how did this event contribute to the development of apartheid?

Weekly packet due

 

 

Review for quiz over the geography of Africa on Friday

 

 

 

Fri

2/10

See Thursday

Why did apartheid begin in Sub-Sahara Africa?

 

 

 

 

 

Warm-up:  What do you think Apartheid means?

 

Africa geography quiz

 

Understanding Apartheid in South African History

  1. Share answers for each event, reveal missing portion of each image, and take notes explaining how each event contributed to the development of apartheid.
  2. Create an illustrated flow chart of the events that led to the development of apartheid.

 

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