Africa Vegetation Zone & Vocabulary

Correlation to State Content Standards

7.4.3 Describe the role of the trans-Saharan caravan trade in the changing religious and cultural characteristics of West Africa.

Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)

Students will be able to:

1. Describe how trade brought religious and cultural changes with Africa.

2. Analyze the influence of Islam on Ghana.

3. Define the vegetation zones in West Africa

Common Core Literacy

RH 1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

WHST 9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.

Anticipatory Set (5 min.)

History Journal: On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression, the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time.

Direct Instruction (15 min.) I DO…

SDAIE: Direct Teach: Africa Vocabulary: Teacher will close read the section with the students. Students will then be given 5 minutes to fill in a cluster about what the region produces and explain the importance of the Trans-Sahara Trade. Page 158.

SDAIE: Cloze Read: Trade Across the Sahara: Teacher will close read the section with the students. Students will then be given 5 minutes to fill in a cluster about what the region produces and explain the importance of the Trans-Sahara Trade. Page 158.

Guided Practice (15 min.) We Do…

SDAIE: TPS: The Growth of Ghana’s Empire: Teacher and students will go over the four questions dealing with the section.

SDAIE: TPS: Trade Across the Sahara: Teacher will will fill in the vegetation zones, what is traded and the impact of trade across the Sahara based on the reading.

Independent Practice (20 min.) You Do…

SDAIE: Whisper Read/TRQ: Growth of Ghana’s Empire: Students will read the section on page 159 buy themselves. After the reading, students will answer four questions.

Homework.

Article on the Trans-Saharan trade routes and answer the three questions.

Closure (2 min.)

1. Clean up.

2. Dismiss Class.

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