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December 12, 2024
Correlation to State Content Standard:
7.4.3: Describe the role of the trans-Saharan caravan trade in the changing religious and cultural characteristics of West Africa and the influence of Islamic beliefs, ethics, and law.
7.4.5: Describe the importance of written and oral traditions in the transmission of African history and culture.
ELD Standard:
P1: A1, A2, A3, C10, C12
Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)
I am learning about the West African empire of Ghana by:
Understanding how the government officials ruled the empire.
Identifying the social and economic impact of the trans-Saharan trade routes.
Common Core Literacy Standard
RH 1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
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.
RH7: Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts
WHST 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
WHST 6: Use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiency.
WHST 8: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources (primary and secondary sources).
WHST 9: Draw evidence from information texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
Anticipatory Set (5 min.)
SDAIE: EQ/TPS: Starter: Students will read a chunked passage from the History Channels "This Day in History" and answer the given essential question. If there is no evidence, the answer is "not enough evidence." Drill to help improve comprehension.
Direct Instruction (10 min.)
SDAIE: Close Read/Model/Lexile Level/Talking to the Text: Ghana's Government & Military: Teacher will close read the first two paragraphs. After reading the paragraph teacher will stop and have students find evidence to complete their Cornell Notes. After the first two paragraphs, students will continue the rest on their own.
Guided Practice (10 min.)
SDAIE: Direct Teach/Cornell Notes/Video Clip: Ghana Government & Military / Trans-Saharan Trade routes: Teacher will go over the answers to the Cornell Notes and graphic organizer with the students. Teacher will provide clarification, visuals, examples, etc.
Independent Practice (20 min.)
SDAIE: Chunked Reading/Lexile/Cornell Notes/Video Clips: Ghana's Government & Military: Students will read a chunked and lowered lexile passage from the textbook. They will use the passage to complete their Cornell Notes. After they are done, teacher will show a video of the current gold mines and struggles that are going on today.
SDAIE: Chunked Reading/Lexile/Graphic Organizer: Trans-Saharan Trade: Students will read the selected passage and identify the items that were traded in West Africa and the social and economic impact it had on the region.
Homework.
Ed Puzzle: Africa's Geography, due Friday December 13, 2024 by 5 p.m.
Closure (3 min.)
1. Clean up.
2. Dismiss Class.
Lesson Modifications for GATE, RSP, and EL Students
EL: Projector (visuals), questioning, chunking, cognitive words, repetition, translation in Spanish.
RSP: Projector (visuals), questioning, modified assignments, check for understandings.
GATE: Require answers that will demonstrate depth and complexity of fertilization.
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