Aksum Empire Lesson Plan | DBQ | Axum | Google Drive | Google Document
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Description
In this lesson students will learn about the Aksum Empire (Axum). They will analyze primary sources found from the Ethiopian African Empire. Finally, they will write about what they learned regarding the Aksum Empire in a DBQ response.
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Lesson Outline:
Warmup - Find an image of a coin from the Aksum empire and project it for students to see. Explain to students that this coin is actually a primary source and I ask the class to discuss with elbow partners what they can learn about a civilization just from looking at this coin. Then students share out their answers. Use this opportunity to
Group work - Break students into 4 groups and assign each a primary source to break down. Explain to students that in order to understand a primary source sometimes they need to pause and identify words or phrases they do not understand. When they come across words or phrases they don't know they shouldn't give up on trying to understand the document they should research the terms they do not know and plug in more understandable language.
Prompt students to write down on the whiteboard/tech tool that can be projected, what a historian can learn about Aksum from that source. Then have each group share their findings.
Give students the remainder of class to write the paragraph response to the essential question. Ensure students understand their first sentence should take a stance, while the rest of the paragraph should draw evidence from the primary sources. I encourage students to write (Source One), (Source Two), (Source Three), or (Source Four) at the end of the sentence to cite their evidence.
