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African history independent works for Microsoft Word
Triangular Trade Routes: Map Reading Activity
This product helps students understand the basics of the Triangular Trade during the 17th and 19th centuries. The product comes with a complete teacher key. Ready to use - no prep! You might also be interested in this product:Map Activity: Aztecs, Mayan, and IncasMap Activity: Columbus's First Voyage
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course #24 & Mapping Activity
Africa's Great Civilizations Movie Guide Bundle Episodes 1 - 6
This film guide, will move students through episodes 1 - 6, of the PBS series Africa's Great Civilizations. In episodes one and two, students will learn about the African continent's history and impact on civilizations globally starting with Human existence and leading through the exploration of religions in Africa. In episodes three and four, students will learn about the African continent's history and impact on civilizations globally starting with the revolutionary transformation of North a
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Informational Reading Text - Ancient Africa Bundle (No Prep Sub Plans)
A bundle of 8 assignments about the ancient civilizations of Africa, the culture, the leaders, and the rise and fall of these kingdoms. See the preview slide for a complete listing.Supplemental Assignments:"10 Key Historical Topics" assignment that can be used as an end of the unit project, assessment, or as a research project to introduce your unitA crossword puzzle based on terms from the readings.A venn diagram/comparison chart to compare empiresA great way to introduce the subject. The readi
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7th - 12th
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The History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade - Reading Comprehension
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for beginner to proficient ESL learners. The text explores the history of the Transatlantic Slave trade and the effects it had on the development of the African continent.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match and a fun crossword. This worksheet can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. T
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
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: Top 10 Essential Video Guides for US History ENTIRE YEAR! 1 per unit!
Africa's Great Civilizations Episodes 1 and 2 (with answer key)
This film guide, will guide students through the first two episodes of the PBS series Africa's Great Civilizations. In this series students will learn about the African continent's history and impact on civilizations globally starting with Human existence and leading through the exploration of religions in Africa. Each episode is just over 50 minutes making this activity perfect for two standard class periods. There are 38 questions total ranging in style from fill in the blank to true/false
Grades:
8th - 12th
Roots - History Channel (2016) - Episode I - Movie Guide
This three page, 25 question movie guide is intended to support Part I of the History Channel's remake of Roots. This product would fit will in a unit of study which examines the origins of the Atlantic slave trade.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Hotel Rwanda Movie Questions and Key
Students will watch the film Hotel Rwanda and answer questions that are listed in the order that they occur in the film. The teacher will be required to buy or rent the movie.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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A Brief History of the British Empire, Colonisation & Slave Trade - Reading
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the history of the British Empire, from the first expeditions to the scramble for Africa and the later de-colonisation process after the end of WWII.After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match, a fill-in-the-gaps exercise
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Triangular Trade Map African Slavery Activity
Students need to draw and label what products where exchanged between Europe, Africa, the Americans.
Students need to draw arrows of the pathway, label continents, identify what was being exchanged, and place "Middle Passage" in the triangle that will be drawn.
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6th - 8th
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Global 1: The Bantu Migrations
Packet includes comprehensive yet compact paragraphs summarizing key data. Worksheet includes space for students to write their answers right on the page. Each worksheet is complete with images for visual learners and multiple reading comprehension questions.
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Grades:
9th - 10th
Also included in: Global 1: Complete Curriculum
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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Informational Text - Ancient Egypt: Social Structure (No Prep)
A reading assignment about Ancient Egyptian social structures. A great way to introduce the subject. The reading comes from a really great website, ushistory.org, under their free textbook tab. The information presented is theirs, I made up the questions. This can be done as a web quest assignment using the site. Perfect as a supplement, or if you don't have a textbook! Also great as a Sub Assignment. MS Word for easy editing.
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Informational Text - Ancient Egypt Bundle (No Prep Sub Plans)
Geography of Africa Crash Course Unit Bundle
My fellow educators of the world, With over 20 years of experience in education, I've honed the art of crafting my classroom notes for both junior high and high school students. I understand the hours of dedication it takes to create engaging and informative notes—time often spent outside the classroom. My goal has been to alleviate this pressure for teachers who are either starting their journey or simply swamped with responsibilities. Let's remove the stress of note creation, giving you back p
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5th - 10th
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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Harriet Tubman Primary Source Stimulus Based Questions
This assignment contains 3 primary source documents and 1 secondary source covering Harriet Tubman's fight against the institution of slavery.
The sources includes; (1.) San Francisco Call, Volume 102, Number 121, 29 September 1907 (2.) Letter from Thomas Garrett; Source: Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah Hopkins Bradford. (3.) Letter from Fredrick Douglas to Harriet Tubman 1868 (4.) Interview of Harriet Tubman by Rose Belle Holt.
Each document has 1-3 questions each to help stud
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Civil War and Reconstruction DBQ Bundle
Informational Text - Ancient Africa: Zimbabwe (No Prep)
A reading assignment about the ancient African kingdom of Zimbabwe. A great way to introduce the subject. The reading comes from a really great website, ushistory.org, under their free textbook tab. The information presented is theirs, I made up the questions. This can be done as a web quest assignment using the site. Perfect as a supplement, or if you don't have a textbook! Also great as a Sub Assignment. MS Word for easy editing.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Informational Reading Text - Ancient Africa Bundle (No Prep Sub Plans)
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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Grades:
10th
Haitian Revolution DBQ
SWBAT answer the essential question: How did the conditions of Haitian slavery impact the revolution?
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Global/World History: The Rwanda Genocide
Complex and detailed description of the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990's.
Packet includes reading comprehension text, room for students to answer questions right on the sheet and review questions to wrap up the assignment
Grades:
9th - 10th
High On the Hog Episode 1 Our Roots Movie Guide 2021 TV-14 with Answer Key
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America2021 ‧ Social and Cultural Documentary ‧ 1 season – TV-14Food writer Stephen Satterfield traces the origins of African-American cuisine, tracing its through lines from Africa to Texas. E01 · Our Roots - May 26, 2021 – 58 minutesThe hunt for African American food's roots goes to Benin, where okra and yam rule the market and pre-enslavement fish and corn plates reign at the table.25 questions with time stamps (2 pages) Answer Key (2
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8th - 12th
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Africa's Great Civilizations Episodes 3 and 4 (with answer key)
This film guide, will guide students through the third and fourth episodes of the PBS series Africa's Great Civilizations. In this series students will learn about the African continent's history and impact on civilizations globally starting with the revolutionary transformation of North and West Africa through commercial and manufacturing growth and end with a journey through the golden age of Africa and the expansion of wealth and prosperity among Africa's cosmopolitan cities and nations. Ea
Grades:
8th - 12th
Global 1: Mesoamerican Civilization of the Olmecs
Packet includes comprehensive yet compact paragraphs summarizing key data. Worksheet includes space for students to write their answers right on the page. Each worksheet is complete with images for visual learners and multiple reading comprehension questions.
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Grades:
9th - 10th
Also included in: Global 1: Complete Curriculum
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
Grades:
9th
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