My World History class of 11th and12 graders will begin a unit on the 15th century when we return from break in late March. Our starting point will be reading selections of John Thorton's Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World. My students begin the unit with a particular set of preconceived ideas about European African interactions based on their previous year in US History, my goal is to continue the process shifting them from a western centered to global view of history. I would be particularly interested in connecting with school's in west Africa in particular. Though any school would be great. We will finish the year with World War I and again, this would be a great place to connect with and develop a project that refocuses my students from the perspective of the war they learned in US History to a more nuanced appreciation of why this was a global war and not just the US sweeping in to save France and England and the allies punishing the Germans in to WWII.
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