Integrated Literacy Assignment European Slave Trade and Slavery in Colonial America Alexandra Evans SST th Grade

Grade Level Content Expectation:  5-U2.2.1 Describe Triangular Trade including  The trade routes  The people and goods that were traded  The Middle Passage  Its impact on life in Africa

Books: (Impacts on Life In Africa) The effects the slave trade had on children from Africa  Tears for Ashan by D. Marie  My Name is Not Angelica by Scott O’Dell  The Slave Ship by Emma G. Sterne

Puppet: (Impacts on life in Africa) This West African puppet can be used to help read the previous stories or explain some of the impacts the Triangular Trade had on Africa.

Music: (The Middle Passage)  P8 P8  Song naming all the slave ships that brought Africans to America, that also include native African instruments.

Music (The Middle Passage)  wU_sv08 wU_sv08  Amazing Grace and The Atlantic Slave Trade images

Song: (The people and goods that were traded) Triangular Trade Review (to the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb) The colonies had lots of goods Lots of goods Lots of goods The colonies had lots of goods That they needed to trade. They sent rum to Africa Africa Africa They sent rum to Africa As their part of the trade. From Africa went slaves and gold Slaves and gold Slaves and gold From Africa went slaves and gold To the West Indies. The islands had molasses and sugar Molasses and sugar Molasses and sugar The islands had molasses and sugar To America it went. America needed lots of slaves Lots of slaves Lots of slaves America needed lots of slaves To work in its fields. (To the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb) They got their slaves from the islands From the islands From the islands They got their slaves from the islands As part of the trade. They sent back goods to the West Indies The West Indies The West Indies They send back goods to the West Indies Like fish, grain, beef and horses. America turned the sugar to rum Sugar to rum Sugar to rum America turned the sugar to rum To send to Africa. This is the story of Triangular Trade Triangular Trade Triangular Trade This is the story of Triangular Trade That is part of our history.

Poetry: (The Middle Passage/Impacts on lives in Africa)  This site provides 9 different types of poetry created about the effects of slave trade in West Africa. Not only will this help students learn about the Triangular Trade but also practice with different types of poetry.  Cinquain Poem: "The Ship” Ship Dark, Cold Fear, Musty, Defeat Sad, Anger, Pain, Nausea Vessel Rhyming Poem "Just Captured” Dark, Cold, Night It is full of fright. I miss my children and my wife. What has happened to my once happy life? I feel so depressed. We are traveling towards the west. Will we see our tribe? My feelings and pain I cannot describe. I want to go back home and end my feelings of being alone.

Web Sites: (The Trade Routes/The People and goods that were traded) Triangular Trade  lications/imaps/maps/g5s_u3/index.html lications/imaps/maps/g5s_u3/index.html

Websites: (The middle passage) African Accounts of The Middle Passage   This website provides different accounts of Enslaved People and what they experienced being captured, traveling on the slave ships, arrival at different destinations, etc.

Photographs: (The Middle Passage) Many photos like this can be hung around the room to give students an idea of what the African Slave Trade was really like.

Game: (The Trade Routes/The People and goods that were traded) The Triangular Trade Students will divide into groups representing Southern Colonists, New England Colonists, the English, Dutch and Portuguese traders. Each group will be assigned a color and make construction paper labels for the goods traded by each of the groups. Product cards will be placed at the proper location on the map. Each group will then cut correct color of yarn to make a triangle on the map. Students will need to practice walking their triangles on the map. As the students become comfortable with their routes they begin to add product cards and as they reach each different port they exchange / trade their goods and continue their travels demonstrating the various trade routes of THE TRIANGLE TRADE.

Video: (The Trade Routes/The Middle Passage)  Discovery Channel School: Slave Ship

CITATATIONS: Marie, D. (1989). Tears for Ashan.N.p.: Creative Press Works O'Dell, S. (1989). My Name is Not Angelica. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Sterne, E. G. (1988). The Slave Ship. New York City, NY: Scholastic Incorporated. Nigerian Girl Puppet (n.d.). In Lakeshore Learning. Retrieved from Slave Ship (n.d.). In YouTube. Retrieved from Demetis, A. (n.d.). Amazing Grace and the Atlantic Slave Trade. In YouTube. Retrieved from The Slave Ships (n.d.). Retrieved from

Citations:  Triangular Trade Song (n.d.). In Western Reserve Public Media. Retrieved February 2, 2015, from Reid, B. (n.d.). The Ship. In West African Slavery. Retrieved February 2, 2015, from Reid, B. (n.d.). Just Captured. In West African Slavery. Retrieved February 2, 2015, from Mufflin, H. (n.d.). Interactive Map: Triangular Trade. In Education Place. Retrieved from s_u3/index.html s_u3/index.html Accounts-Enslaved People (n.d.). In National Education Network. Retrieved from Rudder, C. (n.d.). The Middle Passage. In PB Works. Retrieved from ading Triangular Trade Game (n.d.). In The Market. Retrieved February 2, 2015, from (1998). Slave Ship [Motion picture]. Discovery Channel School.