How can we use poetry to remember the Triangular Trade?

The aim of this lesson is to let students showcase their awareness of the Triangular Trade using plenty of subject specific vocabulary and precise historical details (names, dates, people, places, events, quotes and statistics) and I normally give them a couple of lessons to achieve this.

The objective is to write a five-part poem detailing:
The causes of slavery
Conditions on the Middle Passage
Life in the Americas
Resistance
Abolition

Throughout the 24-slide Power Point there are five slides with heaps of precise historical detail to help students decide what to include in their poems, and there are five examples too. Please be aware that the slides are deliberately heavily packed with information to ensure students can write different accounts.

I use this lesson to tie together the unit once students have already got a good grasp of the subject knowledge. It’s a powerful way to remember and to allow for some cross-curricular overlap between History and English.

If you have any questions about this lesson let me know and thanks for stopping by.