Age of Iron Lesson Plan

Exploring South Africa Part 2

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will be able to engage in an extended research project into one aspect of South African history/culture and present their findings to an audience using digital media formats.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.7

Structure:

Forming a research question:

Based on their findings from Day 1 of this activity, students should now begin to formulate a guiding research question that they aim to answer. Some examples of questions include:

1. How have politics in South Africa changed since the end of apartheid and how do aspects of apartheid continue?

2. How is Afrikaans seen by...