The African American Experience

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The African American Experience

• Brian O Johnson Jr.
• Ed 439
• Dr. Helms

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American HistoryAfrican American History

• Grades 10 and 11

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American Heritage

• Objective To identify and understand the journey
  of the Africans to the Americas. And to recognize
  the impact that it had on the new world and the
  world we live in today. And to place it into its
  historical context in relation to world and
  American history

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Web Sites

• http//www.juneteenth.com/middlep.htm
• http//www.afroam.org/history/slavery/main.html
• http//found.cs.nyu.edu/andruid/chainsWeb/slaveSta
  ts.html
• http//amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/atlantic
  .slave.trade.html
• http//www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timel
  ines/htimeline3.htm

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Activities

• List the countries that participated in the
  transatlantic slave trade? And explain there
  reasons and what they profited from the trade?
  And decide which country might have profited the
  most from the trade. To be addressed in a two
  page paper.
• Explain the effect that the trade had on the
  people and the overall state of Africa and the
  new world? What are the effect that the trade
  have even on the world today? To be addressed in
  a class discussion and short paper that reports
  the findings.

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Activities

• The class will perform research on these websites
  to be used in a class debate over the slave trade
  and slavery.
• Students will trace the path and label the legs
  and stops of the voyage from freedom to bondage.
  They will be expected to know the products that
  changed hands on the trade route. To be completed
  on a map.
• Students will write a dairy entry of either a
  slave or a slave trader on the slaving vessels of
  the trade expeditions.

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People in Societies

• Objectives To identify the contributions and the
  efforts that African Americans have made in the
  formation of this great nation.

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Web Sites

• http//afgen.com/slave1.html
• http//tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4087/
• http//www.fatherryan.org/harlemrenaissance/
• http//www.bridgew.edu/HOBA/
• http//www.nyise.org/blackhistory/blkhistory.html

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Activities

• Chose one person in African American history and
  write a paper analyzing that person contribution
  to the African American experience. 3-4 pages in
  length.

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Activities

• Identify the African American organizations that
  helped contribute to American society and life.
• Identify and place each African American in there
  decade and avenue of service on a chart that
  starts from the new world to the modern time.
• Write a research paper on the differences between
  the views of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
  3-4 pages in length
• Class discussion of the contributions of African
  Americans.

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World Interactions
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World Interactions

• Objectives identify the links between the
  African American experience and those of the
  world. Recognize the connection to other world
  issues.

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Web Sites

• http//www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/blackhistory/
• http//www.usatoday.com/
• http//www.blackquest.com/link.htm
• http//www.leaderu.com/menus/issues.html
• http//www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/sites.html

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Activities

• Class discussion of certain world issues that
  involve Africans and affect the world.
• Look publications to find articles and anything
  on current events that deal with the African
  experience in the world today.

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Activities

• Have the class research the events that are going
  on in Brazil concerning the citizens of African
  descent and compare them to Americas race
  relations. 3-4 page paper.
• On a map recognize the countries that were
  involved in the slavery and the slave trade.
  Identify the result of institution on that
  country. To be completed on a map and attached
  handout in a group.
• Class discussion on current events and how they
  relate to history.

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Decision Making Resources

• Objectives to relate decision making strategies
  to historical and current events.

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Web Sites

• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/
• http//www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html
• http//dolphin.upenn.edu/vision/vis/Mar-95/5284.h
  tml
• http//found.cs.nyu.edu/andruid/chainsWeb/slaveSta
  ts.html
• http//afgen.com/slavery1.html

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Activities

• Have class discussion about the economics of
  slavery. To determine weather it was profitable
• Write a research paper of weather the slave trade
  was a positive and profitable trade for the
  countries involved in it. 3-4 pages.
• Have a class discussion of the message and the
  meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Have the students play the role of the Government
  and have them make decisions concerning ending
  slavery to African American involvement in world
  wars.
• Black Paths of Leadership class activity

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Democratic Process

• Objectives Identify the democratic principles
  that played a part in the African American
  Experience.

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Web Sites

• http//seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/movement/Seat
  imeline.html
• http//seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/movement/Seat
  imeline.html
• http//www.eeoc.gov/laws/vii.html
• http//ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/russell/seminar/sweatt/
  sweattindex.html
• http//socsci.colorado.edu/jonesem/montgomery.htm
  l

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Activities

• Lead class discussions on the following topics,
  and have students break into groups and chose
  which topic that they would like to present to
  the class
• 1) Brown v. Board of Education
• 2) Plessy v. Ferguson
• 3) Sweatt v. Painter
• 4) Montgomery Bus Boycott
• 5) Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Activities Cont.

• Land Mark Decisions
• Supreme courts Greatest Hits
• Constitutions the Simulation
• Supreme court decisions that Changed the Nation

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Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities

• Objectives to understand the role that people
  and citizens that play in the processes of our
  government.

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Web Sites

• http//www.ldfla.org/introduction.html
• http//www.watson.org/lisa/blackhistory/
• http//www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/afam.htm
  l
• http//afroamhistory.about.com/arts/afroamhistory/
  mbody.htm
• http//www.africana.com/tt_199.htm

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Activities

• Class discussion of rights and responsibilities.
• Current Controversies
• Apposing Viewpoints
• Voter registration?
• Taking sides

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Conclusion

• Students need to be informed about the cultures
  and people that have helped shape the world we
  live in today. These contributions touch each
  part of the society and have effected the way we
  live.

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The Final Thought

• Many groups people have made America what it is
  today, ranging from Spanish, Irish, German,
  French, and native Americans. So to recognize the
  African American experience in its relevance to
  American history is very important for students
  at any age.