Through the activities in this unit pupils will be able to understand, use and spell correctly words relating to:
- slavery in America,
eg middle passage, colonisation, slavers, plantation, confederacy, abolitionists
- the black American experience since emancipation,
eg civil rights, reconstruction, amendment, lynching, discrimination, segregation, reconciliation, carpetbaggers
Speaking and listening - through the activities pupils could:
- discuss and evaluate conflicting evidence to arrive at a considered viewpoint
Writing - through the activities pupils could:
- organise content into complete text with the relationship between points/paragraphs clearly signalled
- understand the effect of different aspects of formality (passive verbs, third person, abstract nouns)
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