Slavery in the Americas during the Age of Exploration

Slavery during the Age of Exploration
Aim: How did slavery grow in the Americas and what was its impact?
FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Included in this resource:
• Title page
• Do Now/Motivation questions based on map
• A Slave's Voyage reading passage with images
• The Middle Passage primary source document with scaffolding questions
• Application/Closing/Higher Order thinking question
• Answer Key for Teachers

Students will study and analyze the growth of slavery in the Americas: importation of slaves; Middle Passage, Triangular Trade, primary source account; classroom simulation

Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary; writing/discussion based on argument
Differentiation: questions are scaffolded; cooperative (students can work with a partner for reading and questions based upon teacher's discretion); simulation/role-playing

★★ NOTE: Included with this product is a photograph of the "ship" I create in my classroom. To understand thoroughly what it was like to be transported on a slave-trade ship, I have about 12 students sit crowded into that area of the floor in the classroom. I then have them link arms to simulate the cramped quarters of the ship. They stay in the "ship" for about 5 minutes and they begin to very much understand the close quartered conditions !

★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here!
Growth of Slavery in the Americas ASSL ••

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Digital Paper by Christi Fultz and Ashley Hughes
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