Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Desired Results
Established Goals:
Students will have an understanding of the diverse identities and cultures of the Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Kushite peoples. Students will
compare and contrast the political systems, family structures, geography, and culture of these societies. Students will exhibit their knowledge of
Ancient African societies as part of a group culminating project. Students will recognize and reflect on their own identities as historians and
individuals.
Understandings:
Essential Questions:
How do people view themselves, their origins, and their place in the world?
How do geography, climate, and natural resources affect the way people live?
What is culture?
Students will reflect on their own identity and place in the world.
Students will know how to conduct an oral history interview.
Performance Tasks:
Assessment Evidence
Other Evidence:
Learning Plan
Day Essential Question(s)
1
Standard(s)
Content
Resources/ Materials
Behavior
Standards,
Social Skills: 7.
Use leadership
and teamwork
skills to
work effectively
in diverse teams
Behavior
Standards,
Social Skills: 7.
Use leadership
and teamwork
skills to
work effectively
in diverse teams
Journals, Circles of My
Multicultural Self; readings for
tomorrow (to be read Jigsaw
style for homework): Excerpt
from Olaudah Equianos
autobiography, Excerpt from
Frederick Douglass
autobiography, Excerpt from
Remembering Slavery
What is culture?
How do people view
themselves, their
origins, and their place
in the world?
Geography
7.1.9.B.
Explain and
locate
regions
and their shared
Getting to Know
You Activity
In-class Oral
History project
Large group shareout
Introduce Journals
as a Do Now
Circles of My
Multicultural
Self, think pair
share
Introduce group
project and share
group assignments
Discuss classroom
expectations:
student of teacher
and teacher of
students
Students choose
Jigsaw readings
Discuss Jigsaw
readings in groups
Share out and group
discussion:
What is culture?
What is African
Culture? (Whats
connections as
defined by
physical
and
human
features.
How do geography,
climate, and natural
resources affect the
way people live?
What is culture?
How do people view
themselves, their
origins, and their place
in the world?
Geography
7.1.9.B.
Explain and
locate
regions
and their shared
connections as
defined by
physical
and
human
features.
History
8.4.W.A.
Evaluate the role
groups and
individuals
played in the
social, political,
cultural, and
economic
development
throughout
world history.
PowerPoint presentation;
optional graphic organizer to aid
in note-taking (graphic organizer
handed out to all students; they
choose whether to fill it out or
take notes in notebook)
PowerPoint
presentation
continuing the
discussion of
ancient African
cultures.
Group work on final
project
Journal do now
activity.
Presentations of
Performance
Tasks
Wrap up and share
out
Resources:
Remembering Slavery resource:
http://zinnedproject.org/materials/remembering-slavery/
Olaudah Equiano on his family history and the story of how he was taken from them: http://history.hanover.edu/texts/Equiano/equiano_ch2_a.html
Reading on Ancient Egypt:
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/egypt-art/beginners-guide-egypt/a/ancient-egypt-an-introduction
Reading on the ancient Kingdom of Kush:
https://oi.uchicago.edu/museum-exhibits/history-ancient-nubia