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High school african history handouts for Microsoft Word
Differentiated! PBS Reconstruction America After the Civil War: Hour 1 Guide
*Help students understand the foundation of the Black Lives Matter Movement!*TWO VIDEO GUIDES! Can also be used as homework sheets. +Simplified for struggling students video guide: Fill-in-the-blank 15 questions with answers. +Higher level for advanced students video guide: 25 questions with the answers. It is an incredibly detailed video guide. This first documentary episode is AMAZING. It intersects interviews of historians with images and captivating stories. Topics include:SlaveryUnion Army;
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Top 10 Essential Video Guides for US History ENTIRE YEAR! 1 per unit!
Great African Civilizations - Episode 5 - The Atlantic Age Video Questions
AFRICAS GREAT CIVILIZATIONS (PBS), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history - Episode 5 deals with the 15th & 16th centuries with the arrival of European powers and the beginning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade - https://www.pbs.org/show/africas-great-civilizations/. Full versions of the episodes are available on Amazon P
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6th - 12th
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West African Civilizations Golden Age
The lesson begins with an introduction of the Trans-Sahara Trade and the Golden Ages of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai. Next, students complete a DBQ to gather specific evidence about those golden ages. The documents include one primary and three secondary sources that describe the civilization. There are also two extension documents (one primary and one secondary) for students that finish the documents early.Finally, students gather three pieces of evidence from the documents to prove that the civili
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9th
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Haitian Revolution DBQ
SWBAT answer the essential question: How did the conditions of Haitian slavery impact the revolution?
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6th - 12th
Jomo Kenyatta & Kwame Nkrumah
The lesson begins with an introduction to the problems nations in Africa faced as they fought for independence. Next, students work in groups of two and each student reads an overview of the independence movements in either Ghana (Nkruhma) or Kenya (Kenyatta). Students fill out a graphic organizer summarizing the problems the nation faced, how they fought for independence, and what the leader promised, and then they share their findings with one another.After both students have shared, they work
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10th
Berlin Conference Reading & Cartoon Analysis
Enhance your lesson on European imperialism with this reading comprehension & cartoon analysis activity that asks students to think critically about the impacts European colonization had on Africa.This worksheet includes a political cartoon depicting the Berlin Conference and a reading about the impact of the Berlin Conference, both with accompanying questions.Great as a homework or introductory activity! Only $1!*******************************************************************************
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7th - 12th
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Bantu Migration
*Requires printing/cutting cards before classThe lesson begins with an introduction to African geography and the Bantu migration. Students are given a map with the years of migration and they have to draw in the migration pattern with arrows. For the main activity, the teacher should print and cut out the descriptions of the causes and effects and put them in envelopes to give the students (the first three are the causes and the last three are the effects). Next, have students organize the cause
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9th
Rwandan Genocide Handout
This handout takes students through the imperialist history of Rwanda up to the genocide. There are several primary and secondary source documents used to help students analyze what happened, including a link to a clip from Hotel Rwanda.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â African History Bundle
Apartheid in South Africa and Nelson Mandela reading and questions
A wonderful introduction and overview of the Apartheid laws, Nelson Mandela, the ANC, and the end of Apartheid. Vocabulary is defined and highlighted in the reading to make it an easy visual for lower level readers.
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6th - 11th
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AP World History Regional Review: Africa and the Americas 1200-Present
This product is perfect for AP Exam review! Students will attempt to sort the scrambled events (aka, illustrative examples) into the correct time periods. This helps prepare them for accurate contextualization and writing with specific names / dates that will be fresh in their minds! The document also includes a teacher answer key, with correctly organized events. Activities like this brought my class AP Exam passing rate to well over 70% in a state where the average is less than 40%!
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9th - 11th
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Apartheid in South Africa and Nelson Mandela worksheet
Apartheid in South Africa and Nelson Mandela is a reading with all of the main vocabulary and events of the Apartheid. It is a great introduction or review activity for middle school and high school students.
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7th - 10th
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Human Rights Violations: Bengali, Cambodia, and Rwanda Genocides
This handout has students first explore the motives and emotions behind people's desire to limit human rights of others. Then, students learn about three genocides and answer analysis questions. Because the genocides are broken into separate sections, this can be a jigsaw, stations, or just individual work packets. The three genocides are:The Pakistani genocide of Bengalis in Bangladesh in 1971The Cambodian Genocide led by the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot from 1975-79The Rwandan genocide led by Hutus
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Summer School Modern World History
Kongo & The Scramble For Africa (VIDEO GUIDE) BBC News Africa
Are you studying the "Scramble for Africa" with your students?I have made a multiple choice watching guide with 34 questions for a YouTube video posted by the BBC, that covers the history of Africa. In this episode Zeinab Badawi travels to Angola, DRC and Congo in central Africa to bring the history of the great Kongo Empire. She hears about the critical role played by women in African history such as Queen Nzinga who battled the Portuguese for a quarter of a century in the 1600s and a few decad
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8th - 12th
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Impacts of the Slave Trade on African Kingdoms: Dahomey
This worksheet describes the how the Kingdom of Dahomey participated in the slave trade over the course of 300 years. What students learn is how Dahomey evolved politically and economically due to its reliance on the slave trade and asks students analysis questions throughout. It can provoke a lot of interesting class discussions, and I use this before showing the film The Woman King.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â African History Bundle
The Life and Work of Nelson Mandela - Black History Reading Comprehension
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the life and work of social rights activist, politician and philanthropist Nelson Mandela - who became South Africa’s first Black president from 1994 to 1999. After becoming involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his 20s, Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942. For 20 years, he directed a campaign of peaceful, nonviolent defiance against the South African gover
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Biographies of Notable People bundle
The Middle Passage Video Questions
The Middle Passage is a historic documentary on the Atlantic Slave Trade produced by Steven Spielberg. The questions are well spaced and keep students engaged throughout the video.
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6th - 12th
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Slavery Rebellion and Resistance Text and Questions
When learning about the history of slavery, it is important to understand how slaves rebelled and resisted against enslavement. This introductory text summarizes some examples of rebellion and resistance by enslaved African people. It is followed by a set of "Check For Understanding" questions and an exit ticket quiz where students write a thesis statement. This assignment is designed for students to read and answer independent and discuss in groups over one to two 50 minute class periods.
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5th - 9th
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Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb - Viewing Guide
This is a viewing guide to be completed while watching the Netflix documentary "Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb."
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8th - 12th
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"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou poetic devices figurative language questions
Using the poem, "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou students complete handout/graphic organizer to identify figurative language and identify the central idea.Activity designed to assist in helping build skills needed for the NYS Regents Exam (Part I and III).
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7th - 12th
What was the experience of enslaved people in the New World?
The title of this lesson is "What was life like for enslaved people in the New World?"In this lesson students work through background information before completing a card sort to show conditions of slave life from getting off slave ships through to working on plantations. Students need to place the events in a chronology in order to recount a story of the conditions and place them on an emotional rollercoaster graph to show which conditions they felt were the most horrific and why. This is a pow
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8th - 9th
Also included in:Â Slavery & the Triangular Trade Bundle - 8 Products
"The Woman King" Movie Analysis Questions
These are movie analysis questions for "The Woman King" perfect for World History, American History, African History, The History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Imperialism in Africa and the Belgian Congo
This handout briefly explains the destabilization of African nations caused by the slave trade and then the Berlin Conference and European methods of colonizing Africa. There is then a more detailed explanation of how King Leopold of Belgium controlled the Congo for rubber and ivory. Then students have two analysis questions about how foreign workers are treated when making products we buy. Lastly, there is a primary source about the atrocities in the Congo from 1909 with a call to action. Stude
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â African History Bundle
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler Viewing Guide
Viewing guide for the film "The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler". Great for a Holocaust unit, and comparing Hotel Rwanda's Paul Rusesabagina to Irena Sendler and their bravery for helping others seek refuge.
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9th - 12th
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Nelson Mandela
The lesson begins with an introduction to the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela's work against apartheid, his arrest, and the eventual downfall of the system. Students also watch a four-minute video clip about Desmond Tutu's work fighting against apartheid.Students then examine a series of documents that provide different perspectives on how South African was impacted by the end of apartheid. These documents include an excerpt from a speech by Mandela, a chart on statistics 10 year
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10th
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