• Dayna Mergenthaler
  • New AP
  • New History Through Film
  • History Through Film II
  • American History 1
  • Homeroom 2019-2020
  • AP European
  • American History extra credit movies
  • African American History and Culture
  • History Through Film I
MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS dbmergenthaler@wcpss.net
Podcasts ​

www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/u-s-contraband-camps.htm
www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/harriet-tubman-the-underground-railroad-part-1.htm

​www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/harriet-tubman-union-spy-part-2.htm


​www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/robert-smalls-from-contraband-to-congress.htm
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African Map Game  online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3163

African American History textbook online 
Through the year we will analyze television shows with African American characters at the front. We will compare the way shows through American Tv history depict African Americans, their lives, jobs, family and friends.
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August 27 & 28
  1. Introduction to class
  2. Make binders
August 29, 30, 31
  1. Video excerpt from First Peoples:Africa & worksheet
  2. Map activity
  3. Egypt activity
Goals for class:
  1. Students will study the map of Africa to improve their ability to label countries and deepen their conception of Africa as a continent of many countries and rather than a single unit.
  2. Students will view video and identify the common African Ancestors of all modern humans.
  3. Students will research the history of Ancient Egypt and identify important characteristics of the greatest ancient civilization in Africa.
September 4-7
1. Egypt continued
2. Black Pharaohs of the 25th dynasty and Kush Empire- watch the video and be prepared to discuss the following questions-
  • ​Why did archaeologists dismiss the idea that the Kush could have built their monuments?
  • Why did the Egyptians portray the Kush so negatively in their histories?
  • Who was Piankhi? 
  • How do you feel about all the artifacts from Egypt and Sudan being in foreign museums?
​3. Colin Kapernick and Nike- watch the video and write a short response in your bell ringer for today about your feelings about the ad, the use of political sentiments to sell shoes, and the controversy over 'taking a knee' to begin with. 
September 10 and 11

Horn of Africa-label the Horn of Africa map and then fill in the chart about the civilizations of East Africa.
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Open Note East Africa Quiz at testmoz.com/1818834
September 17 & 18
  1. Implicit bias test in computer lab 
  2. ​implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html​
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September 21, 22, 23, 24

​West Africa packet due on 9/25
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October 1&2

Sundiata, and Epic of Old Mali

Today we will read this and then you will work with a partner or two and draw a poster for me where you illustrate part of the story somehow and explain the part you illustrate.

mrcampbellrocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/An-Epic-of-Old-Mali-Full-Text.pdf  

The story would have originally been told by a griot. ​ Here is a version told with traditional Mande instruments and singing. 
October 3, 4, 5,8

African American Ancestry projects- directions in power point
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We will take a final exam on Unit 1 about Africa on October 15&16. Use the Unit 1 Summary guide below to prepare and watch this video in class.
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Test Unit 1 on testmoz.com testmoz.com/1419639
October 15, 16 & 22, 23
1. Beginnings of the Slave Trade notes
2. Compare and Contrast the First Episode of Roots 1977 and Roots 2016
3. Power point and notes
4. Readings about Slave Castles and Ships
​5. TV project
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 October 24 & 25
Explore the information at www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/search and fill out the table on transatlantic doc below.
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October 29th 1st period-
watch Africa’s Great Civilizations episode 5 on Amazon and answer these questions-
1. Which European country started the slave trade in Africa?
2. What was so amazing about the ancient Kongo?
3. What mistakes do they make while dealing with Europe?
4. What are they growing on São Tomé and Principe?
5. Who is Queen Njinga?
6. Which African country was the largest source of slaves?
​7. What religious practices came over with the people from Dahomey?
Unit 1 test retake- go to testmoz.com/1419639 and enter your name and take the test online.
November 7 & 8- Olaudah Equiano-go Through the power point and then watch this video. When you finish listen to the excerpt and answer the questions.

Olaudah Equiano's life and autobiography- The Interesting Narrative of the Life  of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African chapter 2
history.hanover.edu/texts/Equiano/equiano_ch2_a.html

​Listen to the passages about the slave ship journey.
​audio www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/middle_passage/olaudah_equiano.aspx
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Answer these questions after listening to the excerpt

Olaudah Equiano: Life on Board
 
1.  What was Equiano’s first reaction to seeing a slave ship?  The crew?
2.  What would be one word you would use to describe the middle passage?
3.  Equiano believed that the crew were savages.  The crew believed that their black “cargo” were savages.  Explain how you think each could feel this way.
4.  What do you think was Equiano’s reason for describing the middle passage so graphically?

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Friday October 27 and Monday October 30
Watch Slavery and the making of America, episode 1​ and answer these questions
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November 9 & 13
  1. Power point 
  2. Get into groups of 3 and grab a laptop. 
  3. Choose one of these forms of resistance to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and research and fill out your info sheet to share with the class.
    1. Resistance IN Africa, on the coast. who resisited? How did they resist? www.abafa.org/african-resistance-to-the-slave-trade/​ ,   http://abolition.nypl.org/print/african_resistance/ , 
    2. Resistance on the ships. How did people resisit? What are examples of real incidents of resisitance? abolition.nypl.org/print/african_resistance/
    3. Maroons- who were they? What did they do to resist slavery?
You can use these webpages to get started on Resistance 
revealinghistories.org.uk/who-resisted-and-campaigned-for-abolition/articles/the-fight-african-resistance.html, www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/middle_passage/resistance.aspx, www.understandingslavery.com/index.php-option=com_content&view=article&id=310&Itemid=222.html, 
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4.Fill out your sheet and then we will share with each other. 

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Triangle Trade Map 
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November 27 Laptop teams of 3-- answer questions while looking at this website.
​www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/europe/index.aspx
November 26 & 27
Film and questions to answer along with viewing. 
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November 28-Dec 3 Founding Fathers and slavery-
  • look at powerpoint about Washington and his slaves
  • Chose one person from the list of founding fathers in the PowerPoint and do a bit of online research on their views on slavery, if their owned slaves , how they treated them, if any ran away, etc. and make a poster, a powerpoint  or a prezi about what you have found.
Listen to the podcast on Benjamin Banneker and read his letter to Thomas Jefferson.www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/benjamin-banneker.htm
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Letter- www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h71t.html
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 finish and present powerpoints 
December 10 & 11 
Plantation Style Slavery

Read these articles about Plantation Tourism 
www.theroot.com/plantation-tours-don-t-expect-to-hear-how-horrible-sla-1790860547
​www.vox.com/2015/6/29/8847385/what-i-learned-from-leading-tours-about-slavery-at-a-plantation
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https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/articles/10-notable-southern-plantation-tours-in-the-united-states/​

Discuss the idea of The Lost Cause presented in this video

Look up Plantations in North Carolina and fill out this chart


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January 9 &10
Slave Narratives and questions
NEARPOD LESSON ON PLANTATIONS share.nearpod.com/vsph/BBXsonPvwI
December 1-6
Harriet Jacobs

https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/lZcsBIaDNu

​http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html
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December 17-21

Glory
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 January 3&4

BELLRINGER QUESTIONS! GET YOUR NOTEBOOKS!
  1. What are some ways that people fought back against the inhumanity of slavery?
  2. Who are some people who were enslaved or who fought slavery that you want to know more about?
Listen to the podcasts about Harriet Tubman and answer the questions on the accompanying sheet.
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January 7&8 
Three of the ways that people resisted slavery were
  1. Escape – find three examples of each of these and tell me who, what , where, when and how for each of them.
    1. A person could earn their freedom
    2. A person could sue for their freedom if they had legal backing
    3. A person could runaway
  2. Revolts-find three examples of each of these and tell me who, what , where, when and how for each of them.
    1. People organized slave revolts on farms and plantations
    2. Slaves revolted on slave ships
  3. Colonization Movements- Tell me which nation sponsored the movements in each nation, when the actions took place and how successful the programs were.
    1. Sierra Leone
    2. Liberia
Another way people fought slavery was through abolition.
  1. What are the origins of the Anti-slavery movement? (answer the question)
  2. What was the role of White Abolitionists? (find at least three examples and explain who, what, where, and they were, what they did.)
  3. What was the role of the Black Abolitionists? (find at least three examples and explain who, what, where, and they were, what they did.)
 
DUE AT THE END OF THE PERIOD!
January 9 & 10
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January 11&14
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Go to  https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/raleigh/africanamericanhistory.htm
  1. What is the oldest historically black college in the Southeast?
  2. What other HBCU was established in Raleigh after the Civil War?
  3. Why was St Augustine’s important to the community as well?
  4. What were some neighborhoods for freed African Americans in Raleigh?
  5. Who was MT Pope?
  6. What was ‘black main street’?
Go to file://h0412sfs02/Home$/Staff/dmergenthaler/Downloads/HRMPopeFamily.pdf
  1. Who was Manassa T. Pope?
  2. What was unusual about his parents?
  3. Why did he come to Raleigh?
  4. What were some important things he did?
  5. In the early 1890s, most black people were in which political party?
  6. Most Democrats were what kind of people at that time?
  7. What groups did the NC Republican Party join with to get stronger?
  8. What kinds of things did our state’s democrats do to keep their power?
  9. What kinds of things did the White Supremacy Campaign do to keep African American men from voting?
  10. What military group did Pope join?
  11. Why was Pope one of only 7 men of color to vote in Raleigh in 1902?
  12. What did Dr Pope do in 1919?
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North Carolina slave narratives
docsouth.unc.edu/nc/slavery.html#slavenarr
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January 11 & 12
Paths to Freedom 
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January 17th- 
Watch Reconstruction: The Second Civil War and answer the questions for the first 35 minutes. Then go over the answers and then finish the film. 
African American History Month PowerPoints
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January 22 & 23 Current Event- find a current event from the last 5 months and fill out this form. We will discuss in class. 
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January 9 & 10
​African American Religious roots
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February 19 and 20
Watch this episode of The Abolitionists​ and take notes
Near Pod lesson- African Americans at the end of the War. share.nearpod.com/vsph/7EV9sTVlNu
March 5-9
Reconstruction memory.loc.gov/mss/mesn/111/111.pdf
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MARCH 12-16 www.commonlit.org/student  class- African American History
​code-3398w4
www.commonlit.org/texts/america-s-most-infamous-hate-group-the-kkk?id=961873
March 16 &19
This packet has a picture, a short reading and questions to answer and turn in at the end of the period. 
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African American History Bulletin Board- Sign up by March 19/20
Every student will be required to research at least five people, events or places in African American History from our state and prepare a short summary about the example they have chosen and create a neat written card with information about the example from North Carolina History they have researched. 
The cards will be displayed on our class bulletin board and will need to be spelled properly and neatly written. The cards are due on March 23.

There is a sign up sheet where we will enter all your subject choices so we don't get duplicate cards. 
Here are some websites you can use to do your research and get ideas.
​memory.loc.gov/mss/mesn/111/111.pdf
http://docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/roundup.html
http://nchistoricsites.org/chb/
http://nchistoricsites.org/iredell/
http://nchistoricsites.org/stagville/
http://nchistoricsites.org/somerset/
http://www.blackpast.org/tree/North+Carolina/North+Carolina
http://www.blackpast.org/tree/North+Carolina/North+Carolina
https://aahc.nc.gov/
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sncc
https://snccdigital.org/inside-sncc/the-story-of-sncc/
http://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/civil-rights-movement/
http://northcarolinahistory.org/subject/african-american/
https://www.ncpedia.org/history/cw-1900/black-caucus
https://blackamericaweb.com/playlist/famous-folks-from-north-carolina/item/352034/
https://wakecounty.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/famous-african-americans-of-north-carolina/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk-Holden_war​




March 22, 2018
Today I want you to watch this documentary and them to this assignment on Commonlit.com www.commonlit.org/texts/the-harlem-renaissance?id=987641
April 10 & 11
First we are going to watch a video and answer questions,then we are going to start a new assignment on Civil Rights figures of the 20th century.
Everyone will make a presentation about important figures in the movement and present to the class next Monday and Tuesday and everyone will take notes on the people. We will test on this information so it will be important to take notes.
After we finish the film, read this article from the New York Times about the Emmett Till murder case last year and we will discuss.
​nyti.ms/2kd16uE
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Eyes on the Prize episode 2- watch and take notes and turn notes in to Ms Mergenthaler for credit.
For this assignment, you will each pick two people and present information about them to the class. You will need to tell us this information
  • name
  • birth and death years
  • place of birth
  • basic personal information (where you went to school, what your family was like, struggles in your life, job, your goals)
  • What organizations they worked with
  • What were the things they did to fight for Civil Rights
  • Why you think they were important in African American History
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April 12 & 13

Civil Rights Webquest. Go to  www.boycp.org/ourpages/auto/2016/8/24/54257586/Civil-Rights-Movement-Webquest-293anv0.pdf

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Answer the questions as a team in your notebooks. Then we will begin the activity above. 
April 16-19
Presentations on Civil Rights figures
April 20, 23
New Assignment on African American influences in American Music
Go through the PowerPoint together and then get into groups to do presentations on different musical styles influenced by African American music and people.Presentations due on the 24th and 25th.
May 4th- nearpod lesson on Black Panthers.    share.nearpod.com/vsph/c3TDhd9rNu
Video - Watch Loving ​ and do these questions
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May 8 & 9
​Watch this video and write a list of political messages you see in the video. You may want to watch it more than once. 

Then, find a video that you think we should analyze for meaning in class. Be prepared to share and discuss.
MAY 14 & 15th

Hey guys! Let's read the last chapter ( 24) in the online book and answer questions! Turn them in to me at the end of the period. 
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FINAL EXAM INFORMATION AND STUDY GUIDE
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