1. Warm-up #39
If you were meeting an alien from another planet for the first time, how would you communicate that you are peaceful? How would you know if they were? How would you make sure the meeting went well?

2. Bob Goff, error in translation

3. Today’s Goals
Compare the account of an African with the account of a European as they meet for the first time.
Understand how perspective and poor understanding complicated relationships.
Practice reading and interpreting primary documents.
H.S. 2 Analyze the complexity and investigate causes and effects of significant events in world history.
C.C. R.H. 2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.

4. Setting the Stage
Dr. Livingston is a Scottish missionary and explorer who goes to the Congo in Africa and send letters home about what he finds. Inspires many Europeans to colonize in Africa based on his descriptions.
Disappears for 6 years.
Henry Stanley is commissioned by a newspaper to go find him.

5. Meeting in the Congo (Class Docs. Pg. 27)
1. “That Was No Welcome”
Read “That Was No Welcome” out loud with your partner.
Highlight: Words or phrases that make the natives seem “scary”
2. “That Was No Brother”
Highlight: Words or phrases that describe what the natives thought of the “white man.”

6. Assignment (Workbook pg. 8)
Fill in the Venn Diagram comparing the two accounts
What did they have in common?
How did they view the same actions differently?
What was included in one account but left out of the other?

8. Meeting in the Congo Analysis Questions
Answer 3 question on the back using 2-3 complete sentences for each.