Africa

We are now on the RISE OF ISLAM UNIT

11/9 Test
 * Parent Survey **
 * Test Fix-Ups:** ** DUE TUESDAY **
 * **__Any student that took the test__** can improve their test score by adding up to 10% extra credit to the test
 * Step 1: Re-take the test using any tool to find the correct answers
 * Step 2: For Incorrect answers from your first attempt
 * o Create a One Page One-sided paper poster
 * o That gives the correct meanings to 10 of the questions that you missed
 * o If you only missed 2 just give meaning for the two you missed.

11/8

Parent Survey TEST FRIDAY >
 * Use the following links, and your notes and work to study for the test tomorrow.
 * Practice Testand reading (test only works in Internet Explorer)
 * FLASH CARDS

11/7 -Finish your One Pager -Upload it to Elearning
 * Watch the introduction Videos on Islam ( the video links are for the same videos if one doesn't work try the other)
 * Your computer log in is the log in for the videos
 * Islam 1
 * [|Islam 2]

11/2-6

Create a **ONE Pager** for this Chapter
 * __DUE Thursday __**
 * Step Three: **
 * Choose which program you will use to display your work.
 * o Microsoft Publisher (advertisement) or (blank)


 * Include the following on your ONE PAGER:
 * o Section Title Questions
 * § turn EACH Section title into a higher level thinking question: pg. 130, 136, 142,147


 * o Evidence of details/facts from CyberHunt
 * § Pick at least one fact or detail from EACH section of the CyberHunt
 * § In write the section heading from the CyberHunt. For example: (Ghana, Gold for Salt, etc.)


 * o Highlight at least ONE person from this chapter (Tunka Manin, Mansa Musa, Sunni Ali, Askia the Great)
 * § Who Were They?
 * § What Empire?
 * § What did he do?
 * § Why were they important
 * § <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Compare to modern figure in history (higher level thinking)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Find an illustration/image to show an important concept/theme/idea of EACH section of Chapter 6


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Silent Barter
 * o <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define /Explain
 * o <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What is the significance/why was it important?
 * o <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Give a Modern Day example and explain


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Oral History/Griot
 * o <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define/ Explain
 * o <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What is the significance/why was it important?
 * o <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Give a Modern Day example and explain

11/1 [|Elearning] Join our History ClassClass

Post your assignment to the Discussion Page

10/31 Use a word document to answer the following questions in complete sentences. [|Africa Cyberhunt] [|Link for Ibn-Buttuta]

10/30
 * DUE Wednesday beginning of the period
 * Students are working in pairs on a Advice Column / Newsletter.
 * Students have been creating this in class with a partner.
 * Review: [|Africa Terms]
 * Look Ahead: [|Ghana and Mali]
 * [|Africa Maps]
 * [|Videos] Your computer log-in is the username and password

10/29
 * DUE Wednesday beginning of the period
 * Students are working in pairs on a Advice Column / Newsletter.
 * Students have been creating this in class with a partner.

10/26
 * No homework unless notes are not finished.

10/25 NEWSLETTER Crossing the Sahara
 * Students that finished their notes began to create a Newsletter for their information and thinking.
 * Students that did not finish the notes continued with their notes and MUST finish for homework tonight.

10/24 Finish Cornell Notes Items A-E must be completed.

10/22 Use this site to take Cornell Notes Crossing the Sahara []
 * You should finish notes on A and B
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #c0e3f4; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">First, click on a letter from A-K.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #c0e3f4; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Read the accounts for each letter you see.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #c0e3f4; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> List three key tips that would help a first-time traveler survive the Trans-Saharan journey.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: #c0e3f4; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">You will be analyzing the written accounts of travelers' experiences crossing the Sahara desert so you can write a travel guide for others making the journey.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: #c0e3f4; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Then, you will create a guide intended for an audience of a medieval trader who will participate in his/her first trans-Saharan journey. Your guide will explain:
 * 6) <span style="background-color: #c0e3f4; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Reasons for crossing the Sahara
 * 7) <span style="background-color: #c0e3f4; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Getting Ready
 * 8) <span style="background-color: #c0e3f4; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Tips for Travel
 * 9) <span style="background-color: #c0e3f4; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Warnings

<span style="background-color: #c0e3f4; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Pretend you are trying to sell the services of a guide for hire. Your guide should be both an ad and informative.

10/19 No Homework. 1. Crossing the Sahara []

10/18 In Class Vocabulary

10/17
 * Read Pages 112-115
 * Take Cornell notes on the reading
 * Remember VQRCS on the left!

10/16 Africa Chapter Walk Due: 10/17

10/15 Picture Preview the Africa Unit using Pgs. 106-155 Due: 10/17


 * Find 8 images from the unit
 * Fold a paper into fourths
 * For each image:
 * 1) Write the Page Number
 * 2) Describe the image
 * 3) Make a simplified recreation of the image
 * 4) What is its significance?
 * 5) Create a higher-level question for the image.