GCP 8 (Africa Projects)

Ni hao all,

As we discussed today, we will be working on projects for Africa for the next three school weeks. Each of you must pick one of the following seven topics...

1.) Human Origins and The Sahara Desert (early humans and geographic history)

2.) The Sahel (Ancient Kingdoms)

3.) West African Traditional Societies (anthropology)

4.) Modern Nigeria (Modern Africa)

5.) Central Africa (rainforests and civil war)

6.) East Africa (trading and cultural diffusion)

7.) South Africa (colonization, apartheid, and independnce)


First, pick your topic. Pick the topic that sounds most interesting to you. For example, if you think that trading is very interesting, I suggest that you pick East Africa. If you think racism is interesting, I suggest you pick South Africa. If you are interested in teh environment (especially you ENO students!), I suggest you pick Central Africa.

Next, I will assign you your groups. I want you to pick your groups based upon your interests, not your friends.

After that, begin gathering a bit of research

LESSON GOALS

1.) Research your region
2.) Get Introduced to MLA Style Citation
3.) Create your presentation
4.) Make a 15-20 minute presentation. However, it may only be 50% PowerPoint. You will all need to do something else during your presentation.
5.) Take the Unit Test at teh end of everything.


We will take theh unit test in the last week of May.

Jia you!

Mr. Gibson