Congo Video

On Wednesday, we are watching the following video in class.  This video shows the present state of Congo.  The sheet for this video can be found here.

Africa Colonization Map Activity

Starting on Tuesday, you will be examining maps involving African imperialism.  First, you will need to download the African Map Packet.  Open it in Notability and color in the first map based on the European powers that took over Africa.  Next, you will need to answer questions based ont he two maps in the packet.

AFRICAN MAP PACKET

If you open up this document in the World History App, simply click on.  At the bottom, click on the link to Open in Safari. Then click on the the link "Open in..." and choose Notability or another app of your choice.

Schedule April 27 - May 1

Monday, April 27

Lecture:  Intro to Imperialism.  Here is the notesheet.

Tuesday, April 28

Lecture: Imperialism in Africa (Continue with the notesheet from yesterday)

Wednesday, April 29

Lecture:  The Congo Today.  You will watch a short film about Congo and compare maps of Africa today with Africa during imperialism,

Thursday, April 30

Movie:  Blood Diamond.  During class we are going to watch the film Blood Diamond, which is about a civil war in Sierra Leone during the late 1990s. Here is the analysis guide. You will need to compare this with what happened in the Belgian Congo 100 years earlier.  Then, you will be writing a MelCon.

Here is the trailer for the film.


Friday, May 1

Continue watching Blood Diamond

On Tuesday, we will be writing a MelCon in class and taking a short quiz over the film.

DBQ Presentation

This week we are working on a DBQ. You will need to turn the DBQ in during class on Wednesday.  To help with your writing of the paragraph, here is the Power Point instructions that we discussed in class.