Ghana Salt Mines

December 13, 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:

1. Explaining the hardships of salt mining.

2. Understanding the events that led to the fall of the empire of Ghana.

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: Race/EQ/QuickWrite/Model: Hardships of Salt mining: Teacher will model and clariy the RACE writing method as kids explain the hardships of salt mining in northern Africa.  Teacher will guide students through each of the sentences as they complete their RACE Quickwrite.

Guided Practice (5 min.)

          SDAIE: Sentence Stems: Fall of Ghana:  Teacher will provide students with sentence stems of the four questions that deal with with the fall of the empire of Ghana.  

Independent Practice (20 min.)

    SDAIE: Video Clip/Sentence Stems/QuickWrite/RACE: Hardships of Salt Mining: Students will complete a QuickWrite using the RACE method to answer the essential question of explaining the hardships of salt mining.  Students will be given 3 minutes to write each sentence Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain.  Halfway through the time of each sentence teacher will show the sentence stem of what each sentence should be if they need to use it.

       SDAIE: Sentence Stems: Decline of Ghana & Rise of Mali: Students will read page 231 in their textbook and answer the four question that deal with the fall of Ghana.  Students will have sentence stems provided to ensure that they write their sentences in complete sentences.

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.