Early African Communities

January 16, 2022

Correlation to State Content Standards
            7.4:  Students analyze the geographic, political, and economic, religious, and social structures of the sub-Saharan  civilizations of Ghana and Mali in Medieval Africa.

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; and the growth of the Ghana and Mali empires.

Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)

         I am learning about the early communities and villages in West Africa by:

1. Identifying how the features of each vegetation zone provides diverse resources.

2. Explaining how and why villages formed from early communities.

Common Core Literacy Standard

RH 2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.

RH 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.

WHST 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.

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

Anticipatory Set (5 min.):

        SDAIE: Whisper Read/Chunk: Starter: Students will complete their starter quiz first. Students will read a chunk passage from History Channel webpage "This Day in History." Students will be given a claim and they will have to identify at least two pieces of information to suppor the given claim.

Direct Instruction (5 min.)

        SDAIE: Direct Teach: Early Societies in Western Africa: Teacher will go over the directions for completing the first two boxes of the graphic organizer.  Students will look up 9 tier 2 and 3 words and try to match them to the five pictures being provided.  Some terms can be used more than once.  Second box will do with the four vegetation zones of West Africa and how they helped develop early communities in West Africa.

Guided Practice (15 min.)

         SDAIE: Direct Teach/TPS/Video Clips: Early Societies in Western Africa: Teacher will go over the answers to the first two boxes of the graphic organizer with the students. Teacher will provide further clarification to the topics along with video clip visuals.

Independent Practice (20 min.)

      SDAIE: Chunk Reading/Notes/Video Clips/Visuals: Africa's Vegetation Zones: Students will read a chunked reading of the four vegetation zones in West Africa and take notes on how they contributed to the early formation of communities.  Students will watch a video after each zone and take one note from the video clips. 

   SDAIE: Cornell Notes/Text to Speech: Early Communities and Villages: Students will read pages 217-218 dealing with the way West African communities began and how they worked.  Students who would like can use their headphones and access the text to speech and have the passage read to them so they can complete the assignment.

Homework

         EdPuzzle: Africa Introduction due by Friday, January 12, 2024 at 5 p.m.

Closure ( 3 min.)

1. Clean up.

2. Take question/comments/announcements

3.     Reset Edpuzzle for those needed.

4. Dismiss Class.