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This
would be a whole class activity in the ICT room and would
fit into the Black Peoples of America unit for Year 8.
Divide
the class into groups of four, each member choosing a different
role and job:
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Editor
-
Reporter 1
- Reporter
2
- Photo
editor
Students should have an initial planning meeting to agree
their aims and tasks and then they would research the data,
liasing with the editor.
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To
produce a newspaper front page(s), outlining the arguments
for and against the slave trade, using sources from History
Online, the Internet and class texts.
Editor:
Draft out and produce the layout of the paper using
Publisher and decide the space for photos and two articles.
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Reporter
1:
Investigate the scandal of the slave trade, using the
following sources from the HOL sourcebook, Black
People and the Americas:
- 'Buying
and selling Human Beings'
- A
sad loss
- Fever
- Dancing
on deck
- Death
was preferable
- Arguments
for the slave trade from Andrew Wrenn's Slaves,
subjects and citizens from History Online.
In
addition, a variety of class texts as well as websites
can be used e.g.
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Reporter
2:
Write a defence of the slave trade using the HOL sourcebook,
Black
People and the Americas
- Nationally
beneficial
- The
prop of the economy
- A
profitable cargo
- Price
of a slave
- Andrew
Wrenn's resource on arguments for the slave trade
from Slaves,
subjects and citizens from History Online.
Also
the following websites:
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Photo
editor:
Look for photos/images which could accompany the two articles,
using Google's
image gallery, websites and class texts which could be
scanned. |
All
students' work would need to be saved to disk. Once all the
work has been complete, the group can work together to produce
the page, importing the work from disk.
Alternatively, one group could produce the whole of the front
page arguing for the abolition and another doing a defence
and so on.
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