Thursday March 7, 2019 & Friday March 8, 2019

Learning Target: Students will know how African Colonization started and the lasting affects it had on the continent.

Circle: If you could have any kind of pet in the whole world, what would you have?

World Issues Project: You will have 20 minutes to work on your World Issues Projects.

Atlantic Slave Trade: We will be watching this video as a class.

Slave Trade Simulation: We will be doing a simulation to demonstrate how the Atlantic Slave Trade worked.

Timeline: We will be working together as a class to construct a timeline of European Colonization, starting with the Atlantic Slave Trade and ending with complete European Imperialism after the Berlin Conference. I will be explaining key vocab along the way.

Video on Colonialism: We will be watching a video that supports the idea we read about in the Newsela articles. You will be learning about how a why Europe took over Africa in this video.

Colonialism Simulation: We will be doing a simulation in class that will allow you to see how colonialism happened. We will be looking at the differences between Settler Colonialism and Economic Colonialism.

Africa vs America: We will start looking at the similarities between the colonization of Africa and of America.