Warm-up #5

1. Warm-up #5 • Write a paragraph including everything you know about trade in early West African societies (include products, customs, and results).

2. Chapter 6.4 Assessment • 1a) Define What is oral History? • Oral history is a spoken record of past events. • 1b) Generalize Why were griots and their stories important in West African society? • The griots helped keep this history alive for each new generation. • 1c) Evaluate Why may an oral history provide different information than a written account? • People sometimes confuse, embellish, or miscommunicate facts. • 3) Identify What were two forms of visual art popular in West Africa? • Forms of popular visual art included sculpture, masks, clothing, kentecloath, and baskets.

3. Chapter 6.4 Assessment • 1b) Generalize Why were griots and their stories important in West African society? • The griots helped keep this history alive for each new generation. • 1c) Evaluate Why may an oral history provide different information than a written account? • People sometimes confuse, embellish, or miscommunicate facts. • 2a) Identify Name one writer who wrote about West Africa. • Al- Masudi, al-Bakri, Leo Africanus • 2b) Infer – How do you think these writers’ views of West African many have differed from the views of West Africans? • They might have misunderstood some of the different traditions and cultures. • 3) Identify What were two forms of visual art popular in West Africa? • Forms of popular visual art included sculpture, masks, clothing, kentecloath, and baskets.

4. Salt for Gold • Activity – Salt merchants will travel across the Sahara (exit the front door and enter the back door), pay a tax to enter the trading area (1 salt or gold), then trade salt for gold. • Rules for Silent Bartering – • You cannot talk to conduct your trades. • Sit facing each other, salt traders will lay down their pieces to make an offer then turn around and clap. • While the salt trader’s back is turned the gold trader will leave a offer, their turn their back and clap. • The salt trader will either take the trade or make a counter offer by adding or taking away pieces. • Each trader is limited to one counter offer per trade. • Getting more goods – the salt traders will have to return to the salt mines across the Sahara for more salt (which they must pay for), then return to Mali to trade again. The gold traders will have to go to the mines to get more gold.

5. Salt for Gold • Winning – There will be two winners 1) the salt trader with the most salt at the end wins. 2) the gold merchant with the most salt at the end win. • Roles • Odd desk numbers – Salt (5 or 7) • Even desk numbers – Gold (3 or 4) • Tax Collectors – chosen by Queen Schaller.

6. 3-2-1 Reflection • Three things you learned about trade. • Two things you remembered about silent bartering. • One thing that you learned about how to participate in a hands on activity in class.

7. Africa Study Guide • Test will be at the end of class tomorrow. • We will spend the first half of class reviewing our study guides and take the test at the end of class. • Please complete at least two sections of the study guide for homework.

8. Trade Reader • Mark text and answer the questions