1. Bell ringer, 2-4 What are the five largest cities in Nigeria?
Applying map skills, page 394. (Please write question)
Use the map on page 394 to answer the following questions.
What are the five largest cities in Nigeria?
Which four countries on the map are landlocked?
Which four countries have large uninhabited regions?
What is the population range of Dakar, Senegal?
Which city is bigger, Ogbomosho or N’djamena?

3. Today's Objectives: Describe the land and climates found in Nigeria
Explain Nigeria’s economy
Compare Nigeria’s ethnic groups

4. Dates to remember
Next quiz will be on Thursday, Febraury 7th coverering Ch. 13, Section 1
Next Pride Break – February 8th
Next Progress Report – February 13th

5. Daily Planner Bell ringer Tic Tac Toe Chart – Economy of Nigeria
Ch. 13 Vocabulary you should know…
Tic Tac Toe Chart
HWK – please read pages

10. Nigeria is ...
The largest country (in terms of population, 134 million) in _______ _______. (Q) (T)

11. Economics of Nigeria (385)
--- % of income comes from oil exports (T)
Nigeria is one of the world’s major -----producing countries (T)
Still, % of people live in poverty
Oil profits pay for , and

13. 8 Vocabulary Flashcards
Mineral salt
Used in
Fertilizers (T)
Dusty wind from
Sahara during
Winter months
(Q)
Process by which
Grasslands
Change to desert
Small plot of land
Where a farmer
Grows only enough
Food to feed his
family
(Q) Tropical trees
Whose seeds are
Used to make
Chocolate & cocoa
Broad grassland
In the tropics
With very few
Trees (Q)
The mineral
Used to make
aluminum
Group of Houses
surrounded
by walls (Q)
Pages 13

14. Page 386 Despite oil resources, most work as _______…
Most are ________ farmers, growing only enough food to feed their families
Some work on larger farms that produce _____ crops like…

15. Please write questions (10); Planners on your table.
Bell ringer 2.5
Please write questions (10); Planners on your table.
What was the first colonial African country to gain its independence?
How many countries border Burkina Faso?
Cameroon is slightly larger than which state?
The Cote D’Ivoire is one of the world’s leading producers of what?
Which West African country is located entirely inside the country of Senegal?
Video – West Africa

16. Please write questions (10); Planners on your table.
Bell ringer 2.5
Please write questions (10); Planners on your table.
What is the capital of Sierra Leone?
The republic of Mali is a former colony of what European power?
What four countries border Nigeria?
Nigeria is twice the size of what U.S. state?
What are four products that farmers in Nigeria produce?
Video – West Africa

17. Today's Objectives: Describe the land and climates found in Nigeria
Explain Nigeria’s economy
Compare Nigeria’s ethnic groups

18. Dates to remember
Next quiz will be on Thursday, Febraury 7th coverering Ch. 13, Section 1
Next Pride Break – February 8th
Next Progress Report – February 13th

19. Daily Planner Bell ringer Web Map – Geography of Nigeria
Video – Countries of West Africa
HWK – GR 13-1

20. Nigeria has a long ------; covered with mangrove swamps (T)
Geography, page 384
Coastline
Rain Forest
Nigeria has a long ; covered with mangrove swamps (T)

22. Geography, page 384 Coastline Rain Forest
Nigeria has a long ; covered with mangrove swamps (T)
Nigeria’s coastline gives way to tropical

26. Rainforest gives way to --------- (grasslands) with few trees. (T)
Geography, page 384
Savannahs
Rainforest gives way to (grasslands) with few trees. (T)

31. Geography, page 384 Savannahs Plateau's
Rainforest gives way to (grasslands) with few trees. (T)
Finally, Nigeria highlands & appear.

32. Guided Reading 13-1 Word Bank
page
One-third
Christians
Savannas
President
Silver
French
Mangrove
Nok
Food
Oil (exports)
1400’s
Enslaved labor
Poverty
Lagos
Rainfall
Asia
City-States
Muslims
Gold
Prime Minister
One-fourth
Compound
Harmattan
250
Africa
Apartments
350
British
Tropical rain forest
Farmers
Coastline

33. Bell ringer 2.6 What is Mary Kingsley describing in this quote? (T)
Please place planner on your table; Write down 5 questions; Use passage on next slide to answer.
What is Mary Kingsley describing in this quote? (T)
What does Mary Kingsley means when she mentions “bush-ropes …. Coiled around”? (T)
According to Mary Kingsley, what was a result of the thick canopy? (T)
When was this piece written?
What do you think Mary Kingsley is describing when she writes “gray-white columns”?

34. Document-Based Questions
“Sometimes for hours we passed among thousands upon thousands of gray-white columns of uniform height (about feet); at the top of these the boughs branched out and interlaced among each other, forming a canopy or ceiling, which dimmed the light even of the equatorial sun to such an extent that no undergrowth could thrive in the gloom … From their far-away summits hung great bush- ropes … coiled round and intertwined among each other, until one could fancy one was looking on some mighty battle between armies of gigantic serpents.”
– Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa, 1893

35. Today's Objectives: Describe the land and climates found in Nigeria
Explain Nigeria’s economy
Compare Nigeria’s ethnic groups

36. Dates to remember
Next quiz will be on Thursday, February 7th on Ch. 13, Section 1
Valentine’s Day Dance on Thursday, February 7th
Next Pride Break – February 8th
Next Progress Report – February 13th

37. Daily Planner Bell ringer Time Line – History of Nigeria
Ipads – Review for Ch. 13 quiz
Weekly Discussion question
Video – West African Countries
HWK – Review for quiz

38. History and Government, pg 387-88
City states emerge; influences in north; traditional African in south
Earliest known people were (Q); lived in area from 500 B.C. to 200 A.D.
Known as skilled and metal workers

39. History and Government, pg 387-88
Ethnic conflict led to civil war and instability. Free elections occurred in (Q)
Europeans arrive in 1400’s; by 1880’s Africa is divided into
Became a colony of England; in Nigeria gained independence.
History and Government, pg

40. Religions of Nigeria 10 % practice traditional African religions
40 % of Nigerians are Christian …
50 % of Nigerians are Muslim… (Q)

41. Over 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria (Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba and Ibo are big 4)
About 134 million people; most living along coast or near Kano
Strong sense of belonging to group or extended family
Nigeria's People pg

42. Bell ringer 2-7 When was the first Great Mosque built?
Please read pg. 396, Making the Connections. When you finish, please write the following 5 questions / answer.
When was the first Great Mosque built?
What elements of the Great Mosque help keep the inside cool?
What led to the decline of Djenne?
In which direction does the Great Mosque face?
What happens each spring to the Great Mosque?

43. Today's Objectives: Describe the Sahel’s location and its history
Explain how people in the Sahel countries live
Compare the coastal countries, their history, and peoples.

44. Dates to remember
Next quiz will be on Thursday, February 7th on Ch. 13, Section 1
Valentine’s Day Dance on Thursday, February 7th
Next Pride Break – February 8th
Next Progress Report – February 13th

45. Daily Planner
Bell ringer

46. The People of the Sahel, page 392
Sahel countries
1. Countries are large; is small however
2. Most live in in southern areas of Sahel; near
People in the Sahel
1. most people are growing grains
2. Others were such as Fulani and Tuareg
Industries of Sahel
1. Mauritania exports include and iron ores
2. Mali  ; Niger  Uranium; Chad  petroleum
Traditions
1. Most are and speak Arabic along with tribal
2. In larger cities is also spoken