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The west indies - Awesome 8

Särlaskolan 7-9, Borås Grundskola · Senast uppdaterad: 25 februari 2022

We will be working with chapter 5 in Awesome 8 - The West Indies. When we're done you will know about the areas history and how it effected the rest of the world. You will also have gained deeper knowledge of how slavery have changed trough out history and what it looks like today.

Practice: 

  • Different texts about the West indies and its history
    • The west indies and A woman and a sister
  • You will get to practice your listening skills and hear examples of the English spoken in eg. Jamaica. 
    • Privateers, Buccaneers and Pirates and A modern Activist (p. 104). 
  • Vocabulary

Graded: 

  • Modern Slavery
    • An assignment where you find information online and answer questions (Worksheet in classroom). You will also learn more about the lives of former slaves and find out what you can do to help abolish it. 

Week by week: 

Week 8

Lesson 1-3: 

We look at the map where we can find the west indies and talk about what we already know about that area. 

We read the text The west indies (p. 74) together and you answer the React and Respond questions in Classroom. 

Week 9

Lesson 4-6: 

You work on activity A and B in activity book (p. 94-95).

We will do the first Listening Practice: Privateers, Buccaneers and Pirates (p. 96) you will write your answers in Classroom. This week you will also get a chance to find out more about the different islands in the Caribbean. 

Week 10: 

Lesson 7-9: 

Will we read the text A woman and a Sister (p. 82) in textbook. We will discuss the meaning

 of these testimonies and what effect it might have had on the world back then. You answer React and Respond question in Classroom. Work with Activity A-B in activity book (p. 102-103). 

This week we will also do our second and last Listening exercise: A modern Activist, as usual you do it in Google Forms. 

Week 11:

Lesson 8-10: 

This week we will start to work on the graded assignment: Modern slavery. You will need to search for information and answer questions in Classroom. Some questions have a right or wrong answer and in some answers you are required to discuss and explain your own thought process. 


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