Mansa Musa Research Essay!

After completing your West Africa unit, this is a great wrap up to the Kingdom of Mali and the main ruler, Mansa Musa. Students enjoy learning about Mansa Musa because he is said to be the richest person who ever lived.

In this resource, you will find a short biography of Musa starting with his brith and ending with his death. Please see the preview to ensure it covers what you want it to cover. There are guiding questions to help students comprehend the reading. Note: they will probably need to do extra research on top of what is provided for them, but this is a good place to start! Finally, there are sentence starters outlined for each paragraph students will be composing.

This is a great resource to get students set up for writing an essay about Mansa Musa.

Contents:

1. One-page biography on Mansa Musa
2. Guiding questions
3. Two-page outline with sentence starters (one per sentence for 5 paragraphs)

Enjoy!