Language Practice Packet Transatlantic Slavery Activity 1: Past Tense Verbs Name __________________ Due Date _____ http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=479 INTRODUCTION To talk about events in the past, use past tense verb forms. For example, this sentence is correct: “Slaves were men, women, and children.” This sentence is not correct: “In the past, slaves are men, women, and children.” INSTRUCTIONS 1. Read all the instructions before you go to the computer. 2. Go to: www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=479 3. Read the text. Use the arrow to pull down words. Choose the correct past tense form of the verb in parentheses. ( ) Please write your answers on the back of this page. 1 Language Practice Packet Transatlantic Slavery Name __________________ Slavery
Who were they? Where did they come from?
2 Language Practice Packet Transatlantic Slavery Name __________________ Slaves 1__________ (be) men, women, and children. They 2 __________ (come) from Africa. People 3__________ (capture) them in their villages and they 4__________ (force) them to go to the coast and to take ships across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. It 5___________ (start) at the end of the fourteenth century. The slaves usually 6___________ (become) servants at the time. Later, the Europeans 7__________ (need) labor to exploit the natural resources of the new lands, so they 8___________ (import) more slaves from Africa. The middle passage (crossing the Atlantic)
The slaves 9_________ (arrive) at the harbor and they 10 _____ _____ _______ (not/know) what to expect: no slave ever 11__________ (come) back! They 12__________ (be) terrified and 13_________ (have) to go on ships. Sailors 14__________ (load) them and 15________________ (consider) that they 16_________ (be) goods to be sold. Many 17____ ____ ___________(not /survive) the journey because of the horrific conditions in which they 18___________ (cross) the Atlantic. The merchants 19__________ (chain) them and the slaves 20__________ (have) little room to move. Some of them 21______________ (commit) suicide by refusing to eat. Slave ships 22__________ (use) a route called “the middle passage.” It 23 ________ (be) the second part of the “triangle trade.” European merchants 24________________ (exchange) goods like pots, pans, guns, alcohol, and horses in Africa for slaves. Then they 25__________ (ship) the slaves to the Americas, 26__________ (sell) them, and 27____________ (bring) goods like sugar, cotton, rum, tobacco, and coffee back to Europe. Merchants who 28__________ (trade) this way 29__________ (can) become very rich as American goods 30___________ (fetch*) a high price in Europe. *(“Fetch” means “get.”) Activity 2: Primary Sources http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=479 INTRODUCTION Due Date _____ A primary source is something from the past 3 that teaches us about that time. “Primary” means “first hand.” For example, a primary source document is written by a person who witnessed or experienced the event. Language Practice Packet Transatlantic Slavery Name __________________ INSTRUCTIONS 1. Look carefully at the advertisement under Arriving in America. 2. Read the text and look at the pictures. 3. Read the questions. There is one correct answer. Click in the box to select the answer. Then please write your answers here. The document is _________________________
What is it about? ________________________
When was the auction? ____________________
How many slaves arrived on the ship? _________
Where did they come from? ________________
Activity 3: Writing captions for pictures Due Date _____ http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=479 INTRODUCTION A caption is words or a short sentence under a picture that explain the picture. Writing captions for pictures is a good way to practice new vocabulary in social studies class. 4 Language Practice Packet Transatlantic Slavery Name __________________ INSTRUCTIONS Read Being a Slave. Now, write one of these captions to match each picture below. house slave - field slaves - slave cabins - slave quarters - sugar boiling house
in a rum distillery - rice plantation - slaves picking cotton
overseer watching slaves working in a field
CAPTION Example: slave
quarters
CAPTION 1. 5 Language Practice Packet Transatlantic Slavery Name __________________ CAPTION 2. CAPTION 5. CAPTION 3. CAPTION 4. CAPTION 6. 6 Language Practice Packet Transatlantic Slavery CAPTION 7. Name __________________ CAPTION 8. Activity 4: Retelling Due Date _____ http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=479 INTRODUCTION Retelling is saying information again in your own English words. It is different from memorizing because you use your own words. You don’t copy or memorize the text. INSTRUCTIONS Read the Underground Railroad. Now, log off the computer. Please write a complete English sentence here (in your own words) to answer the question: What was the Underground Railroad?
The Underground Railroad was …
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