2015 Accelerated Colonial Empires in Africa and their

Effects Lesson PlanDate and Number Your Papers:

Thursday, January 22, 2015Friday, January 23, 2015

Thursday, January 29, 2015Friday, January 30, 2015

Day One: Thursday, January 22, 2015• Quiet Question: Type Two Prompt---For this prompt, you will work individually and then do a

group-share. We will be working with an assigned primary document relating to European imperialism in Africa. You will be using your Causes of Imperialism Graphic Organizer Notes to help analyze your assigned primary document and answer the corresponding questions.

• Primary Documents:a) British Imperialism----Cecil Rhodes Political Cartoonb) Belgian Imperialism---Political Cartoonc) Humanitarian Goals---“The White Man’s Burden” Poemd) Social Darwinism----Pears’ Soap Advertisements

• Steps:• You will examine and analyze the primary document assigned to you.• Answer the corresponding questions.• Then you will be broken up into groups, and each individual will provide a summary of their

primary source and relate it to the specific cause of imperialism as review and clarification.

Day One: Thursday, January 22, 2015

• Class: Based upon what we have studied up until this point and your own knowledge of colonial events from American History, what changes do you think the European imperialists brought to Africa? Why?----Record class predictions on board.• • Class: To help introduce us to the effects of imperialism on Africa, we are going to watch

two film clips. As we watch, you should be taking notes in the provided graphic organizer that is labeled Notes from Film Clips.

• Film Clips:• United Streaming Film Clip: We are going to watch the film clip entitled “European

Imperialism in Africa”. It has a running time of four minutes. This can be watched through the teacher page where it is uploaded.• You Tube Film Clip: We are going to watch an excerpt from the BBC Documentary on the

Belgian Genocide. The excerpt is entitled “Congo-The Brutal History”. It has a running time of 9:47 minutes.

Day One: Thursday, January 22, 2015

• Class: The teacher is going to begin the Imperial Empires, Resistance, and Effects Lecture. This lecture will cover the following topics in the graphic organizer:

• Topics Covered:• Indirect Rule• Direct Rule• Berlin Conference• African Resistance• Negative Effects• Positive Effects• • Homework: Continue to follow the chunking for the Imperialism Editorial and work

on your Africa Unit Study Guide for the midterm. Your Imperialism Pre-Write Organizer will be checked tomorrow for Class Participation Points!

Day Two: Friday, January 23, 2015

• Class: The teacher is going to finish the PowerPoint Lecture, and you should continue to take notes in the provided graphic organizer.• • Homework: Continue to follow the chunking for the Imperialism Editorial and

work on your Africa Unit Study Guide for the midterm.

Day Three: Thursday, January 29, 2015•

• Groups: Using the Jigsaw Method, you will be assigned certain European countries to research using the textbook and CLASS SET of the Colonial Empires PowerPoint and complete your parts of the graphic organizer. You will be teaching the material to other classmate’s tomorrow.

• Resources:• Online Textbook: pages 692-697.• Class Set of Colonial Empires PowerPoint

• Topics:• In your groups, you will be assigned one of the following to research and take notes on:a) British Colonial Empireb) French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Colonial Empiresc) Belgian Congo • Homework: You are to continue to follow the chunking for the Imperialism Editorial. Have your

notes done for the next class period’s group-share.

Day Four: Friday, January 30, 2015

• Groups: You will break back into your groups, and you have the class period to teach each other the content and make sure all the graphic organizer parts are complete.• • Homework: You are to continue to follow the chunking for the Imperialism

Editorial.