Blog#5: The Abolitionist Movement

Students,

First, view the videos related to Abolitionist Movement in America. Use the information from the video and textbook to create a (2) two paragraph essay on the contributions of white who supported the anti-slavery movement and African Americans who contributed to the movement. Examine the roles and contributions of the following people: 1) William Lloyd Garrison, 2) Frederick Douglas, 3)John Brown, 4)Harriett Tubman, 5)Harriet Beecher Stowe, 6)Elijah Lovejoy and others who may contributed to the Abolitionist Movement.

This blog will count as an essay test and will be due Thursday, October 25, 2012. 12:00a.m. The essay test will count as 100 points and will be graded according to content information and analyzation skills informational readings. I look forward to reading your blog post.

Blog #4: African Americans in the American Revolution Period

Students,

First, view the videos related to African Americans in the American Revolution. Use the information from the video and textbook to create a (2) two paragraph essay on the contributions African Americans made toward the Revolutionary War period. Examine the contributions blacks made in actually fighting in the American Revolution. Examine the role of Crispus Attucks, Phyllis Wheatley, and Benjamin Banneker during the Revolutionary period. Analyze the importance of their contributions to the early foundations of the United States of America.

This blog will count as an essay test and will be due Thursday, October 4, 2012. 12:00a.m. The essay test will count as 100 points and will be graded according to content information and analyzation skills informational readings. I look forward to reading your blog post.

Blog #3: Atlantic Slave Trade and Middle Passage

Students,
First, view the videos related to the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage. Use the information from the video and textbook to create a (2) two paragraph essay on the experience Africans underwent on their journey to North and South America. Analyze the following questions in your essay. Examine some of the resources and items exchanged during the Atlantic Slave Trade. Which items traveled from which continent? Explain the conditions amongst the slaves aboard the slave ships and how it affected the total number of slaves that actually arrived on the North and South American continents. .

This blog will count as an essay test and will be due Thursday, September 20, 2012 by 12:00a.m. The essay test will count as 100 points and will be graded according to content information and analyzation skills informational readings. I look forward to reading your blog post.

Blog Post #2: West African Empires: Ghana, Mali, Songhai

Students,
First, view the videos related to the West African Empires of the early 13th-15th centuries. Use the information in the video and textbook to create a (2) two paragraph essay on the differences and destruction of the West African Empires.
Analyze the following questions in your essay. How important was the Niger River to the Ancient West African Empires?Explain the geographic regions of the Niger River?
Compare and contrast the three major empires of West Africa (Ghana, Mali, Songhai).
This blog will count as your first essay test and will be due Thursday, September 13, 2012 by 12:00a.m. The essay test will count as 100 points and will be graded according to content information and analyzation skills informational readings. I look forward to reading your blog post. should be

Welcome: An African American Experience

Welcome Back Students!!! First I would like to say I hope each and everyone had a great and restful summer. I look forward to teaching you a host of new information and several new strategies to assist you in analyzing African American historical data. My ultimate goal this year is to help my students think like a historian and formulate their own perspective about events and people of the African American race. This year will consist of a pivotal presidential election in our nation's history and we will examine the political process that the Constitution has created for the Executive Branch of the United States of America. We will also take a close look at the second half of American History from Reconstruction(1877)-President Barack Obama's Administration. Becoming a productive and active citizen in your community, city, state, and country will allow you to create your own personal history and my plans are to build the foundations for it!
1st Assignment- Due 8/23/2012 by 12:00a.m. Midnight
Students will introduce themselves to the class Blog Post. Name, interest, goals, likes and dislikes of history, plans for school year, future career/occupation, college of choice, etc. (anything positive you would like the class to know about you). This welcome post should be at least 1 one paragraph in length (5 sentences). (see teacher example). The blog post are mandatory weekly and will count as 50 points.
2nd Assignment-Due 8/25/2012 by 12:00a.m. Midnight
Students are required to respond to (2) two of their classmates blog post. Students are required to write a two sentence reply to their classmates original post. Comments are to be respectful and positive. Each comment post will count as 25 points which is a total of 50 points. I look forward to reading your blog post and I he you enjoy a positive form of cyber communication in this class for the 2012-2013 school year!!!