Jan 30 2009
Apartheid and South Africa
What does the word apartheid mean?
AGENDA:
Apartheid video
Letters from the Bush daughters
Homework: None
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Jan 30 2009
What does the word apartheid mean?
AGENDA:
Apartheid video
Letters from the Bush daughters
Homework: None
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Jan 29 2009
Warm-up #2 Who is Willem de Klerk?
AGENDA:
Finish presenting projects
Revewing worksheet p 67 and discussing apartheid
Homework: none
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Jan 28 2009
No warm-up today.
AGENDA:
Presenting Colonialism Art Project
Homework: Read pp 560-563 and complete worksheet on p 67.
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Jan 27 2009
Warm-up #1
Who were the African National Congress? (hint: p 562 in textbook)
AGENDA:
Finish Colonialism Art Project
Read pp 560-563 and complete worksheet on p 67 in your workbook
Homework: Art Project due tomorrow. Worksheet is due Thursday.
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Jan 23 2009
Warm-up #9 How has partitioning impacted Africa?
AGENDA:
1. Update notebooks
2. My Life As A Bedouin – sharing
3. Slave Diary – sharing
Homework: none
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Jan 22 2009
Warm-up #8 Why were the Europeans attracted to Africa?
AGENDA:
1. Face to Face with Jomo Kenyatta
2. Colonial Catastrophe
Homework: none
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Jan 21 2009
Warm-up #7 Define colonialism
AGENDA:
1. Book check/Make-up work
2. Standards for Unit 6
3. "What a Mess" – Colonial Rule in Africa
Homework: none
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Jan 20 2009
We tuned in today to watch history in the making as our new President Obama was sworn into office.
Warm-up #6 Which president added "so help me God" to the end of the presidential oath?
AGENDA:
Inauguration Day
Homework: none
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Jan 16 2009
Warm-up #5 What was one fact that you read about yesterday that surprised you?
AGENDA:
Turning in RAFT assignment
Slave Diary
Video on the African Slave Trade
Homework: none
Remember: If you have not turned in your RAFT assignment, you are late and will have 10 points deducted each day. Turn it in on Tuesday!
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Jan 15 2009
Warm-up #4 The "Middle Passage" refers to:
a) the half way section of a book or text
b) a branch of the transatlantic trade in which millions of Africans were transported for slavery
c) a passage of time in which the African slave trade was common
d) an African folk tale
AGENDA:
"The Door of No Return"
"Out of Africa" – Transatlantic Slave Trade
Homework/Announcement: Bedouin RAFT assignment due tomorrow!
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