* Ball Toss Review: What do you know? What do you need to learn?
* Class guided read of the issue of land and power in early Canada
* Complete Cornell notes of your own on main ideas and significant details.
Tues. March. 5th:
* Groups create skit to showcase the lives of the different power groups in early Canada
* Present skit and group slogan
* Explore immigration to Canada: African-Americans fleeing slavery & those who came in coffin ships
* Immigration Journal introduced. Brainstorm and consider the perspective you'll take: in-class created Monday March. 11th
Wed. March 6th, 7th & 8th:
* Class Film Analysis of Amistad
Based
on a true story, Amistad is the saga of a failed mutiny on board a
Spanish slave ship and the trial that followed. In the summer of 1839,
fifty-three African captives, led by Cinque (Djimon Hounsou), broke free and
took over the slave ship Amistad. Captured off the eastern seaboard after
failing in a desperate attempt to sail home, they find themselves strangers in
a strange land and at the mercy of the American justice system. Fighting for
the Africans are abolitionist Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) and young
lawyer Roger Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey). However, seeking re-election,
President Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) is willing to sacrifice the
Africans to appease the pro-slavery South. The case takes on historic
proportions when former President John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) comes out
of retirement to take the Africans' cause all the way to the United States
Supreme Court in a trial that challenges the very foundation of the American
legal system.
* Study for Early Canada quiz Tuesday March. 12th and unit test next Friday!!!
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