Social Studies Courage Project. William Wilberforce






 Room 6's Social Studies Courage Project. William Wilberforce - work sheet.
“Maafa
The triangular Slave trade
1.    Complete the activity
2.    Read the text
3.    Complete the quiz (What does maafa mean)
4.    Write a paragraph about what you have learnt and thought about while completing these tasks. (yr.7 3-5 sentences, yr.8 4-7 sentences).
Timeline
In your topic book create a time line of Important  events in the Abolition of Slavery.
Witness to Injustice
A.    Equiano story. Read his story in childrenslibrary.org

B.    The middle passage. Read carefully and highlight important pieces
Task: create an infographic that shows what life was like before, during and after being on the Middle passage. (See the butterfly example from the School Journals and google infographic for heaps of excellent examples). If you have permission from your parents and a capable device you could use http://infogr.am/ and add the link to your page in the class blog.)
William Wilberforce biography
1.    Read
2.    Take notes and
summarise using Shenna Camerons - Notes and Summarise Sheet.
William Wilberforce
Internet Research
Who, What, Where, When, Why, How
Whos Who and Whats What.
Create a concept map using this material.
Final task Create convincing speech supported by a 2 part visual presentation
Part A.
About the horrors of the African slave trade and what people like William Wilberforce did to stop it.

Part B.
Modern day Slavery with modern day examples of what people are doing to save people from slavery and a call to action.

Your presentation is to be used as a visual aides for a 1 min speech about the same topic.
Look at work of tear fund, world vision…etc
Amazing Grace
Creatively publish a copy of Amazing Grace in your topic books
Reflect on these questions.

Q.1 Why did John Newton write the hymn?
Q.2 Why did W.W. talk to John Newton and what might have they talked about?
·       Glue this task sheet into your topic book
·       Colour in each activity once you have completed it
Evaluation
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What I did well
My Next Steps




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