African Canadian Studies 11

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Introduction to ACS 11   

Outcomes & Module Plans (What you will know and/or do by the end of this course)

Assessment and Class Notes

Independent Study Project

 

African Music:

Junior K - Smilin' Coast Youtube (Gambia)

Metaphysics - A Peace Of Ebony (Zimbabwe)

K´naan - Strugglin' (Somalia)

Kaysha - Bounce Baby (DR Congo)

KMB - Bad Boy (Mauritania)

Course/Content Links & Resources:

BBC - Lost Kingdoms of Africa - YouTube

Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story - YouTube

Langston Hughes reads Speaks of Rivers - YouTube

Web Quest - Indigenous Peoples of Africa

1776 (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Soundtrack CD Album

Trade Simulation

YouTube - Texas Rewriting History in School Curriculum - May 22, 2010

Enslavement Through Time template

Slave Songs - PBS

YouTube - Cornfield Holler

YouTube - Negro Prison Songs/"It makes a long time man feel bad" & "Prison Blues"

YouTube - Lightnin' hopkins - lonesome road

YouTube - Do Lord Remember Me Mississippi John Hurt

YouTube - Paul Robeson - Shortenin bread :)

YouTube - go to sleep little baby (a cappella ~ harmony)

Abolition (1) | Understanding Slavery

The Civil War - The Cause (Episode 1 of 9)

 Maroons

The War of 1812

Race (Scroll to Race: The Power of Illusion)

Part 1: The Difference Between Us

Part 2 - The Story We Tell

Part 3: The House We Live In

YouTube - MALCOLM X: OUR HISTORY WAS DESTROYED BY SLAVERY

YouTube - MALCOLM X: If Someone Puts a Dog on You, Kill That Dog

YouTube - MALCOLM X: I Probably Am A Dead Man Already

YouTube - Martin Luther King "I have a dream"

YouTube - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last speech

Remember Africville | Work For All

WatchMojo TV - Grab - CBC - Halifax apologizes for razing Africville

WatchMojo TV - Grab - CBC - Halifax apologizes for razing Africville (Interview with Brenda Steed Ross)