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Jensen HL2: Apartheid: Primary Source Explore

IB English HL2: Age of Iron Primary Source Explore

Agenda

1) Intro to Apartheid

2) CLAIM-SUPPORT-QUESTION

3) Explore primary sources (and secondary if time permits).

  • Look at Images
  • Listen to Music
  • Read a print article

4) Complete reflection. 

5) Be ready to share your primary source and textual connection with your peers.

6) Briefly share the most surprising or interesting thing you've learned with your classmates.

Claim- Support-Question

Claim-Support-Question:

Make a claim about your topic

    Claim – An explanation or interpretation of some aspect of the artwork

Identify support for your claim

    Support – Thing you see, feel and know about your claim

 

Ask a question related to your claim

    Question – What’s left hanging? What isn’t explained? What new questions does your claim raise?

 

Apartheid Overview

Major Events in South Africa during Apartheid

• Adoption of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People, June 26, 1955

• Women’s March against the Pass Law August 9, 1956

• The Sharpeville Massacre, March 21, 1960

• The Durban strike, January – March, 1973

• The Student uprising in Soweto, June 16, 1976

• The killing of Steven Biko by the South African police, September 12, 1977

• The release of Nelson Mandela from prison, February 11, 1990

• The first democratic election, April 26, 1994

Primary Sources on Apartheid: Playlist

Library Standards

Lesson Library Standards:

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