First Period: 8:30am to 9:21am
Second Period: 9:24am to 10:14am
Third Period: 10:27am to 11:17am
Modern Africa Readings & Checkpoints
Over the course of the unit, we will be going through different sections of the textbook in class. Whenever we did a section of the readings, the questions will be due the same day and there will be a reading checkpoint made available the next day to start the class period (unless there were other instructions). The Google Forms online correspond to a specific topic/lesson in the textbook.
African Traditions
In the last lesson, you read about East African societies and cultures. The West African empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai had organized societies with unique cultures of their own. There were large empires, but also cities, towns, and villages. Throughout the empires, societies had complex, family-based relationships. “Kings may come and go,” observed a popular saying from Mali, “but the family endures.”
European Colonies in Africa
In West Africa, wars among African peoples and the damaging effects of the slave trade had undermined long-established kingdoms and city-states. Newer African states were not strong enough to resist the Western onslaught. Many Africans lived in small communities with no strong, centralized kingdom to protect them.