Africa

Welcome to the Africa page for World Studies. Chapters 8 and 15 will be the focus.

Extra Credit: Read "My Seven" by Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai and respond to her list on the wiki discussion on this page. Have your responses in by Sunday, March 4, 2012.

Here is the rubric for this assignment where the goal is to create a Children's book of one of the sections (1-3) in Chapter 15. A Child's book is usually visual and the concepts are very simple and clear which is the goal of the book; to create a simple and clear presentations of the main ideas from this chapter. Weekly Syllabus for February 20-24
 * Children's Africa Picture Book**

Tuesday, February 21, 2011 - What to wear to Mecca


 * Weekly Syllabus for February 6-10**

Today we talked about how geography played a role in the development of culture in Africa. A geography assignment was introduced and it will be due on Friday at the beginning of class.
 * Wednesday, February 8, 2012**

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The Lost Kingdoms of Africa - Watch videos for extra credit. Additional 5 points for each video following the weekly article format. Due on March 27, 2012. media type="youtube" key="vQfhWnPeG8g" height="251" width="336"media type="youtube" key="NfvEZPWAGqM" height="251" width="336" media type="youtube" key="bkEvbZZ1FuU" height="251" width="336" media type="youtube" key="9hbZNMzXIas" height="251" width="336" media type="youtube" key="YJK_6dkCEcU" height="315" width="420"