INSTRUCTIONAL SCRIPT P.E.O.P.L.E.
10TH GRADE: WORLD HISTORY
ACTIVITY
4: Scene – COLONIALISM TO IMPERIALISM (1800s to WW I).
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LOCATION: We’re inside a classroom at Vilas Communication Hall on the
campus of UW-Madison. Once again, we are
here to provide inspiration for your semester enrichment project – which is to
create a performance that expresses something about our world today BY USING
TOPICS you should be learning about in your 10th Grade World History
and Western Civilization classes.
- Review
the semester-long project goal: Remember, each of our weekly activities
functions as a separate script-writing session, where we investigate a
potential classroom topic and create some sort of entertainment with it. Your final performance will not require you
to use ALL of your weekly activities, but the expectation is for at least 2
historical eras to be expressed in your final performance.
- Today’s
focus is on: COLONIALISM TO IMPERIALISM (1800s to WW I), which covers quite
a huge chunk of history. The historical
text I’ve selected focuses on the impact the move from the Colonization model
of dominance to the Imperialism mode of dominance, most specifically as a
result of the famous Berlin Act of 1885 that resulted in powerful European
countries carving up control of Africa.
The power-brokers claimed that this was to stop regional slavery, and
I’m sure many of them had those genuine intentions, this excerpt from a history
professor’s research shows how the Berlin Act of 1885 devastated Africa and
shattered many social structures.
- When you
view the text, be sure to look for: evidence to support whether or not YOU
BELIEVE the Berlin Act of 1885 actually did end regional slavery in Africa and
the Middle East, or did it actually rename slavery as something else? Using this “new” name for slavery, could a
person argue that slavery still exists today?
- The goal
is for you to be able to: critically view this period of World History to
reach an opinion about how it is influencing the world today. Does slavery – using a different name – still
exist in the world today? Whether your
think slavery no longer exists or does still exist, how much responsibility
belongs to the European countries who created the Berlin Act of 1885. Reach your own conclusions, use historical
examples to support your claim, AND THEN express that claim in some sort of
performance.
- Remember, the tutor or PEOPLE staff person
working with you is a student just like you during social studies
enrichment. Work together to complete
the activity and place all work in the submission folder before leaving home
base.
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