World History Plan of the Week for 03/27/17
Monday: Presentation/Discussion: West African and Southern African History during the Middle Ages
(the empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai; the gold-salt trade; Sundiata Keita, Mansa Musa; Timbuktu as
a center of trade and Islamic learning; Sangkore Mosque; the Great Mosque at Djenne-Djeno; Almoravid
invasions and the decline of the Songhai; Bantu migrations; Great Zimbabwe as a center of southern
African trade; Arabian cities in East Africa (Mogadishu, Somalia; Mombasa, Kenya; and Kilwa, Tanzania);
griots; lineage groups)
Homework: Review African kingdoms study guide/review scramble in in preparation for
Wednesday’s African Kingdoms of the Middle Ages Test.
Tuesday: Review activity (Review Scramble/Jeopardy) in preparation for Wednesday’s African Kingdoms
of the Middle Ages Test
Homework: Review African kingdoms study guide in preparation for Wednesday’s African
Kingdoms of the Middle Ages Test.
Wednesday: African Kingdoms of the Middle Ages Test
Homework: None
Thursday: Presentation/Discussion: Modern events in African History
Homework: Bring laptop to class on Friday to work on current events project during class.
Friday: Day 1 of Modern African History current events project
Homework: Work on Africa current events slideshow. We will work on it for two more days in
class. It will be DUE WEDNESDAY, 04/05/17. Students will be expected to do presentations on their topic
in class on Wednesday.
African Current Events Slideshow Project Instructions
Introduction: You are going to complete a slideshow by yourself about one of the topics listed below
related to major events in recent African history. After completing the slideshow, you are going to
present it to class.
Requirements of project:
1. You must complete your own slideshow.
2. Your slideshow must be shared with me immediately after you start it so I can monitor your
work. You will lose significant effort points if you do not do this.
3. Your slideshow must include 12 slides with bullet points (aim for three or four bullet points per
slide with at most two lines of text each).
4. Do not write paragraphs for bullet points. Your presentation is not meant to be a script for you
to read word-for-word. Bullet points needs to clearly and concisely summarize your main points.
5. 8 slides must have visuals. Each visual must be directly related to the bulleted text of the slide it
is on. If a visual is on its own slide, it must come right after the slide with the bulleted text it is
related to.
6. Each image slide without text WILL NOT count toward the 12-slide requirement.
7. Avoid using images as slide backgrounds for slides that include text. It is hard to see text that is
on a photo background. It especially hard for me to see text on a photo background.
8. Your presentation must balance images with text and leave as little white space as possible.
Look at presentation designs online to get ideas for how to make slides look pleasing to the eye.
9. You must include dates for important events you describe, names of important individuals, and
specific details about the events you are describing.
10. Explain why learning about your chosen topic is important to being a global citizen right now.
11. Spelling and grammar count. Use spell check and read over your presentation to make sure
everything is correct.
12. You must include a source slide at the end of your slideshow with Website, article title, and web
address.
13. You must perform your presentation to class.
14. Your presentation performances must show that you learned the material you’re presenting.
You will demonstrate this by regularly make eye contact with your audience, and speaking
loudly and articulately when performing your presentation. If you learn the basic content of
your presentation and practice performing it, this will be relatively easy for you.
a. See me to learn how to pronounce words you will use in your presentation.
15. Students who wish to earn extra points will include a positive news story related to their topic.
Grading Rubric:
Effort: during class: 40 percent (based on effort over three days)
Content: of Presentation: 40 percent (based on fulfillment of content requirements)
Presentation: 20 percent (based on eye contact, mastery of material, articulation, etc.)
Topics: You can only do one of these topics, or another of your choosing, if you have cleared it through
me. I don’t want a bunch of current events presentations about the same topic.
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The dictatorship of Idi Amin in Uganda
Current events in Uganda
The dictatorship of Joseph Mobutu in Zaire (the DRC)
The Congolese Civil War (c. 1996 – 2003)
Current events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Black Hawk Down Incident (1993)
The genocide in Rwanda (1994)
Robert Mugabe (“president” of Zimbabwe since 1987)
Arab Spring (b. Dec. 18, 2010)
Current events in Libya since the start of the Arab Spring
Current Events in Egypt since the start of the Arab Spring
Refugees fleeing to Europe from Africa
Somali pirates
Boko Haram (terrorists based in northeastern Nigeria and nearby regions)
Al-Shabaab (terrorists based in Eastern Africa)
The election of Nelson Mandela as South Africa’s first black president (1994) and challenges
facing South Africa to the present.