Africa's Vegetation Zones

Correlation to State Content Standards

7.4.1 Study the Niger River and the relationship of vegetation zones of forest, savannah, and desert to trade in gold, salt, food, and slaves.

7.4.2 Analyze the importance of family, labor specialization, and regional commerce in the development of states and cities in West Africa.

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. Define the vegetation zones in West Africa and analyze how natural resources contributed to success in trade.

2. analyze the importance of family, labor specialization, and regional commerce in the development of states and cities in West Africa.

3. analyze how the trade industry allowed West African empires to grow and prosper.

4. describe oral tradition in West Africa.

Common Core Literacy

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

RH 7. Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

Anticipatory Set (5 min.)

Journal: William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre also called the English Renaissance or the Early Modern Period. Shakespeare's work includes 38 plays, 2 narrative poems, 154 sonnets, and a variety of other poems.

Direct Instruction (15 min.) I DO…

SDAIE: Cloze Read: The Oral Tradition in West Africa: Teacher will frontload students with notes on daily village family life from textbook 151-152.

Guided Practice (10 min.) We Do…

SDAIE: Map Skills: Africa: Students will label a map of Ancient Africa with cities, rivers, empires and the things they traded.

SDAIE: Annotated Text/Talk2Text: Trade and Regional Commerce: Teacher and students will annotate the sections dealing with trade and regional commerce from the textbook on page 152-153. They will underline major points, circle key words/phrases, and come up with question(s) we may have for the section.

Independent Practice (15 min.) You Do…

SDAIE: TRQ: The Oral Tradition in West Africa: Students will answer questions dealing with the the section "Trade and Regional Commerce" in complete sentences.

Homework.

EdPuzzle: Part 2 of the the Crash Course Africa video.

Closure (2 min.)

1. Clean up.

2. Dismiss Class.