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Room for complete responses
RST packages include labeled response pages for daily work and short answers. Each digital written-response field allows 1,000 characters. Each final RACE task has two dedicated writing pages with 48 ruled lines in print and digital continuation fields. Use the original questions and the matching page labels.
Grades 6–12 pathways
Purple Ma’at headers appear throughout the PDFs. Included grade band pathways connect evidence analysis and argument to NJSLS and Common Core for Grades 6–8, 9–10, and 11–12. Original readings and advanced content are retained, with scaffolding or extension by grade band.
The First World War
The Berlin Conference, the partition of Africa, and African experiences of a global war.
By Terrence Knox · Ma’at Cultural Curriculum Consultants, LLC
The complete $39.99 set includes the 60 page student packet and separate 16 page teacher edition in PDF.
Examine imperial power and African experiences
Students investigate how the Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885 excluded African representatives and accelerated colonial expansion. They distinguish imperial rivalry from the immediate crisis in 1914 and examine the war’s effects on African soldiers, carriers, and civilians.
Five day inquiry
- The Berlin Conference Representation, consent, and sovereignty.
- Treaty rules and geographic change Analyze the General Act and compare Africa in 1880 and 1914.
- From rivalry to war Distinguish underlying conditions from the immediate trigger.
- African experiences Examine wartime labor, supplies, civilian hardship, and geography.
- Evidence and writing Complete 15 assessment questions and a RACE response.
All five geographic themes
Location, Place, Human Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region connect colonial control to river routes, community identities, resource extraction, trade, labor, and borders. A dedicated reading and six practice questions develop these connections.
Included in the set
- A clearly labeled Do Now and Quick Write for every day with full width ruled response areas
- Historical Africa maps with compass roses, legends, and approximate distance scales
- Five readings, map analysis, chronology, and six geographic theme practice questions
- 15 multiple choice assessment questions and RACE writing
- A 19 point RACE rubric, teacher exemplar, answer key, and teaching guidance
- Grades 6–12 NJSLS ELA alignment and clearly identified high school Social Studies content extensions
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Purchase and delivery
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