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Week 1: Diversity and Freedom in West and Central Africa
Week 1: Diversity and Freedom in West and Central Africa
Monday
African Cities and Civilizations Thrived while Europe was dealing with the Middle Ages
Watch: Meltrek: Exploring Ancient Africa
OR
http://www.pbs.org/weta/africas-great-civilizations/watch-video/
Post to Padlet and Write: Screenshot a part of the movie and comment on three ways this video changed your mind
Tuesday
African Cities and Civilizations as Homelands
Explore Senegal, Benin, Ghana or Mali (read how formerly enslaved men and women described their homelands)
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/freedom/freedom.htm
Wednesday
Mali Empire (1230-1500)
Post to Padlet and Write: Screenshot something from one of the videos and write what you learn about Mali or appreciate about Mali. What kinds of beauty did enslaved people miss out on by being captured and forced to leave their land?
Thursday
Songhai Empire and Timbuktu
Friday
Discuss the diversity and achievements of West and Central African Civilizations
Post to Padlet and Write: https://www.npr.org/2018/02/16/586513016/black-panther-costume-designer-draws-on-the-sacred-geometry-of-africa
Watch: Malika https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dBVuTbjy6I
Post-It Notes (in person or on note.ly) to share all of the things you have learned about the homelands of people that White enslavers captured and killed
BONUS: Movie Night with Timbuktu or Black Panther
Week 2: White Colonialists Begin Indigenous and Transatlantic Slave Trade
Week 2: White Colonialists Begin Indigenous and Transatlantic Slave Trade
Monday
Indigenous Communities Were Enslaved too by White Invaders and Colonists
Post to Padlet and Write
Tuesday
White Supremacist Justification for Slavery
Read Letter: The Manner How These People Become Slaves - 1734
p. 8-9 Freedom on my Mind (Gray White, Bay and Martin)
Post to Padlet and Write - What stood out to you in this letter? What all seems wrong?
Wednesday
Slave Ships - White Lion in 1619
Read:https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-african-slave-ship-arrives-jamestown-colony
Post to Padlet and Write: What did slave ships look like? Pictures of some? Did people revolt on slave ships?
Thursday
Slave Ship Manifests
Browse: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Slave_Manifests_-_National_Archives_Catalog
Make a video and post to Padlet: What are you doing with this knowledge? How do you want it to change you as a person, as a citizen?
Friday
Why did White Colonists Enslave?
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