This Week - Monday Homework- Post Here

Hello everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend. This week we will be discussing the Atlantic Slave Trade and some of the horrors of this terrible time in history. As usual homework can be posted on the blog by clicking comment below. This week we will also be watching a clip from the movie, "Amistad." There is a scene in particular that depicts the middle passage very well.
*** QUIZ ON FRIDAY***

MONDAY HOMEWORK:
Write an accordion essay on the causes and the effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Your essay should have

PROMPT: What were the causes and effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade?

• Introduction 
• Body Paragraph #1 - Causes of the Atlantic Slave Trade
• Body Paragraph #2 - Effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade
• Conclusion

Follow this link to see the accordion essay sheet HERE
Follow this link to see the reading from class today HERE


AMISTAD
Awesome Movie! We'll watch the middle passage section on Tuesday


Watch a Preview of Amistad Here

Holiday Trolley and Thank you parents!

I thought this was cool. Hope you guys are enjoying not having homework. Do you miss it?

Be prepared to get some work done tomorrow since we have a full schedule, no more of this half day non sense.

Thanks to all the parents who came to parent night! It was great to see you all!

Veronica!

African Kingdom Posts!

You will research about Ghana, Mali, or Songhai and post information!

Wednesday

Because of the half day, NO HOMEWORK! Make sure you are finishing Monday and wednesdays homework!

Make sure to see me for any grade questions!

Classwork 11-30

Mr. Harris and Mr. Hicks showing off theirs and Ms. Chen's and Mr. Smith's African Kingdom of Songhai.

Well done!

Tuesday Homework Post Here!

How do you think the world would be different if the Columbian Exchange had never happened?
Include details about food and items we saw in class today.
Post your comment below

Post Homework Here! 11-28

Hey All -
Post this weeks Homework assignments here by clicking 'comment' below.

Make sure you put your name in your post by selecting name/URL on comment. You don't put a URL down.

Happy posting and extra credit for all those who post on the website!

Word Wall - Exploration and Exploitation

This Unit's Key Vocabulary

Encomienda, Columbian Exchange and Western Africa Kingdoms!

Ecomienda System

This week we are going to discuss some very interesting topics. We will examine how Europeans begin to enslave natives in the Ecomienda System.

Columbian Exchange

Did you know bananas didn't come from America? This week we will learn where these foods come from and how new types of food came to America in the Columbian Exchange.

Mansa Musa

What was going on in Africa during this time period? What was the economic, social, and political parts of their Kingdoms?

Apocalypto

Hey guys,


I hope we are all enjoying the first half of Apocalypto. It is a pretty intense movie with some scenes that are difficult to watch.  It is just a movie, but unfortunately the history of conquering and destruction of civilizations is a very real thing. Throughout history countless groups of people have been over thrown by stronger, more powerful groups. This has happened thousands of times! 


Click HERE for more information on what really happened during this time period with the Maya


Remember its just a movie!
Here is a picture of the director helping out on the set:

Please comment and share how you feel so far about the movie? Do you like it?

Exploitation Scenario #4

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Exploitation Scenario #3

SCENARIO 3:
NEW DELHI, Nov. 21  -- On a filthy commercial street outside the a Gate near the New Delhi Railway Station, one cannot help smelling pee and rotting garbage while walking past shops selling goods from metal hardware to electric appliances.
The street is also famous for its secret sex trade -- not with prostitutes wandering around or standing at the corner, but with teenage girls forced into sexual slavery by thugs and gangsters.
Sonita, 14, from the suburban area, West Bengal, has just survived one year of life in hell in one of the sex houses on the dangerous street before being rescued by a religious group. She is now working in a small knitting workshop some three kilometers away from the nightmarish hole from which she thought she would never escape.
Like all Bengalese girls, Sonita has black hair and dark skin on which scars from beating and cigarette butts can be spotted easily.
Sonita's parents are peasants in West Bengal; they have six children. Because they were in debt to a moneylender, her parents sold Sonita to a relative of the moneylender for 2,000 rupees (about 40 U.S. dollars).
The woman took Sonita to New Delhi and handed her over to a vicious looking man who became her 'boss.' The man raped her that same night and forced her to work as a prostitute.
"Every day and night, we stood like cattle before customers, waiting for them to choose. The 'boss' and his wife took all the money. All we got was sour and bad food," Sonita said.
Some girls were often starved and beaten up for failing to attract customers, most of whom were drunks and drug addicts, she added. 

Exploitation Scenario #2

SCENARIO 2:
The issues surrounding ongoing abuse of immigrant workers resulted in a weeks-long hunger strike in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2008. Metalworkers from India walked off their jobs in early March at shipyards in Mississippi and Texas. A dozen of them then staged the hunger strike on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C.
Workers say they were victims of modern slaves under the guise of the U.S. "guestworker" program. They say labor recruiters for Signal International tricked them into paying thousands of dollars - as much as $20,000 in some cases - for visas they were told would allow them and their families to live permanently in the United States.
Signal International is an oil-rig construction company based in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The company points the finger at labor recruiters, saying it too was deceived about how the workers were brought to America.
According to The New York Times, workers said they "lived in sweltering labor camps, crowded 24 workers to a room, under curfew and restricted from leaving the yards, with $1,050 a month deducted from their paychecks for their upkeep." In addition, they said it wasn't until after they arrived in the United States that they were told they could not get permanent visas, only the temporary "guestworker" visas tied to their shipyard jobs. Workers say they were told they would be deported (forced to leave the country) if they left the shipyards.
The workers now are suing Signal, and Signal is suing the labor recruiters. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating.
In leaving their jobs, the metalworkers lost their legal immigration status. They hope their hunger strike will force the Justice Department to allow them to remain during an investigation into the case.
"Everyone has a dream," one of the hunger-striking workers told The Times. "If we could come here legally to live with our families, that was my dream."

Exploitation Scenario #1

SCENARIO 1:
On April 25, 2006, more than 200 farmworkers gathered Florida, to honor Olivia Tamayo, a field laborer who endured six years of sexual violence and harassment at the hands of her employer.
Tamayo sued her boss, and her case ultimately became the first suit brought by a female farmworker ever to reach a jury. That lonely statistic raises the question: How many more Olivia Tamayos are out there?
A study done for California State University found that 90 percent of farmworker women reported sexual harassment on the job as a major problem. Hundreds, if not thousands, of women in California alone have been sexually abused in the workplace, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Female farmworkers often dress to appear as men - baggy pants and shirts, long hair tucked under ball caps, and bandanas to cover their faces. They dress this way, even on the hottest days, as a way to conceal feminine features and fend off harassment and unwanted sexual advances.
Nearly two years to the day after the gathering in , Fla., farmworkers joined with community organizations and schools to launch the "Bandana Project" in 40 cities across the country. Farmworker women and their allies decorated simple white bandanas and organized displays in museums, community centers and schools to raise awareness about sexual exploitation of women in the fields.
"With the help of our partners around the country, we will shed light on this serious problem," said Mónica Ramírez, the project's organizer. "It is our goal to send the message to workplace abusers that we will fight to stop the abuse of women, because no one should be forced to give up their dignity in order to feed their family."