Mansa Musa Hero or Hype? Empires of West Africa Body Biography Poster Project

We know Mansa Musa of Mali was one of the wealthiest men in all of World History, but based on his accomplishments, was Mansa Musa a hero, or is it hype? Students decide! This fun, student-centered, full-body biography project is skill and content-based. Students read, write, and support claims with evidence in a creative biography project format.

Here's what's included:

1. Teacher Instructions

2. An Instructional Slide Show that explains each requirement

3. A Mansa Musa 2-page Google Doc Reading. The reading can be read to students via Google and easily translated into Spanish! This also includes a printable reading version.

4. An 11x17 printable poster. The poster can be printed on two 8.5x11 pages or an 11x17 page.

4. A printable AND Google Ready pre-write graphic organizer

5. A rubric

6. Student examples

7.  A key

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Our World History Curriculum, including Ancient History lessons and Medieval History lessons, are key-concept based, focussing on the “big six” key concepts for social science, often referred to as GRAPES.  By learning World History with key concepts as a filter, students will become familiar with the crucial attributes that have allowed ancient and medieval civilizations to prosper. Also, students will build a framework, scaffolding future learning with the key concepts that will be repeated throughout their academic careers. 

Each unit comes with notes, graphic organizers, and review worksheets that have the GRAPES key concepts in mind:

• G= Geography
• R= Religion
• A= Achievements
• P= Politics/Government/Leadership
• E= Economy
• S= Social Classes

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❤️❤️❤️About Mr. and Mrs. P, the teachers behind Instructomania:

We are a Middle School teacher duo with over 40 years of experience in the Middle School classroom! We strive to create history and science lesson plans that inspire teachers and engage students, focusing on history activities for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. Our Ancient History and Medieval History curricula includes no prep worksheets and Common Core lessons that have been tested and polished in the classroom. World History activities are created with visually rich graphic organizer worksheets and fun thematic assignments. We hope you and your students love our products as much as we did making and using them in our Middle School classes!

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