AP World History Lesson Plans (May 4th-May 8th)

AP World History Lesson Plans

Week of 5/4: Lesson Description:
This week we are working on researching the ancient and modern characteristics of African nations.

Learner Outcomes: unit description, “In this unit…students will learn….”
In this unit, we address the dominant characteristics, contributions of, and interactions among ancient African civilizations in comparison to modern day civilizations.

Standards
The students will be able to:

Describe how the mastery of farming gave rise to Africa’s first civilizations;
Explain Africa’s various geographical features while linking their four climate zones to their way of life and the establishments of civilizations;
List the accomplishments of the West African Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai;
Describe important aspects of African society, such as government, the role of women, education, religion, and the arts.

The assignments for this week are as follows:

Do Now Activity: Access the AP World History Chapter 8 Section 3 Power-Point on Teams or click here and answer the Do Now Question on slide #110. (Do Now=10 pts.)
Research Africa Project: You will be choosing one country in Africa and creating a presentation (via Power-Point, Prezi etc.) briefly explaining their ancient history while going more in depth with who they are today as a contemporary civilization. See project sheet. Choose your country and create a post on Teams saying which country you want to research. First come, first serve. Click here to see all the countries available. Please click here to download the project sheet. (Project=100 pts)

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How to access the lesson plans:
These links below are all of my lesson plans that we have gone over throughout this school year starting with the most current lesson plan to the oldest. These lesson plans explain everything that we do within the classroom daily as far as the chapter being covered, to the vocabulary that is discussed, the objectives to be mastered, the Course Level Expectations; to the day by day agendas.

For parents who may have children who are out for an extended period of time and want to know what we did for the day in detail, click on the links below that say Download File on the week that your child missed. When the file opens, go to the column labeled Differentiated Instruction/Cross Content Integration which is the right column. Scroll down until you see the titles Day 1; Day 2; Day3. Under each of those days are a complete breakdown of what we are doing on that day within the classroom.

Current Lesson Plans

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AP World History Lesson Plans

Current Lesson Plans

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