While most people are familiar with the transatlantic slave trade, there is less knowledge of another major external African slave trade in world history: the trans-Saharan slave trade. Pupils work in groups to read informational texts about these two slave trades as part of a jigsaw reading and then compare and contrast their research.

Concepts

slavery, the atlantic slave trade, the slave trade, the middle passage, african american history

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Have the focus questions displayed for students to reference as they read their informational texts
• Give class members guidelines and expectations for the quality and time they should put into their choice of presentation

Classroom Considerations

• Learners should have some understanding of European and Muslim exploration and expansion in world history before beginning this lesson

Pros

• All handouts and worksheets included
• provides very clear instructional guidelines

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3