Tuesday March 5, 2019 & Wednesday March 6, 2019

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

Circle: What is your favorite fruit? What did you do with your snow day?

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

Newsela Articles: The class will be breaking up into two sides. One half will become experts on one article, while the other half will become experts on the other. After about 10 minutes of silent reading time, students will share what they learned in the article they read with students who read the other article. You will be doing this in pairs.

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

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.