LO: To know what life was like in West Africa before the transatlantic slave trade and evaluate its impact on the people.
Key words:
Inference
Enslaved
Legacy
empire
The lesson starts with learning about life in the West African kingdom of Benin through artifacts and sources. The students practice making inferences. the worksheet has two sides one with the artifacts images and one with an Equiano written source to take inferences from.
Then the teacher explains the lasting impact of the trans Atlantic slave trade had on the Benin Kingdom and Nigeria today.
The latter part of the lesson is about the loss of artifacts and culture caused by the slave trade and questions-should the artifacts in the European museums give them back to their home lands? There is a newspaper task where students research and write about an artifact that has or should be returned in the last 5 years.
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade
A full SOW with all powerpoints and hand outs included. Key words, support and challenge questions in each lesson. This SOW is aimed at developing essential historical skills such as source work, significance, interpretations and more while teaching the history of slavery in an accurate and well researched manner. Its intent is to develop an understanding of key second order concepts while gaining a knowledge of a significant part of world history. The lessons are: 1. What part did Britain plan in the transatlantic slave trade? 2. What was the impact of slavery on Africa? (Benin case study) 3. What was the impact of slavery on Africa? (Songhai case study) 4. Triangle trade and horrors of the middle passage 5. Slaves lives in the Americas (Auction) 6. Life on the plantations 7. The Road to Abolition 8. How slavery was abolished 9. Rebellion and Resistance 10. What is the legacy of slavery?
What was Africa like before and after the slave trade?
* fully resourced- includes slides and hand outs * fully editable * aimed at KS3 * powerpoint presentations and word docs * differentiated, support and challenge * AFL opportunities * think, pair, share discussion points * 3 lessons 1. What was Africa like before the transatlantic slave trade? (Benin Kingdom) 2. What was the impact of slavery on Africa (Songhai empire) 3. What is the legacy of slavery? (short term and long term legacies)
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