LESSON 6: SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID

Agenda with times:

Intro: 10 minutes
Timeline: 20 mins
NP platform: 10 mins
Apartheid conditions: 15 mins
Worlds reaction: 10 mins
South Africa today: 15 mins
Assessment: 10 mins

Intro/Review: Students will look at three different pictures of apartheid. Students will be asked what they think, and notice. We w
then go over the pictures as a class.
Objective:
Standards:
Organize the key ideas and events surrounding apartheid
WG-1.4 Differentiate the ways in which people change t
th
and the April 14 election
views of places and regions as a result of physical, cultu
economic, and political conditions
Understand the South African system of apartheid and how
WG-3.5 Compare the response of different groups and
it affected different aspects of daily life
government to migration including national migration
Compare and contrasts the different aspects of life during
policies and differing responses by local communities
apartheid with how life is today
WG-4.2 Compare the roles that cultural factors such as
religious, linguistic and ethnic differences play in
cooperation and conflict within and among societies

Step 1
Create a timeline
of apartheid from
1900-today
Step 2
National party
background
Step 3
-read the
conditions during
apartheid
Step 4
Nelson Mandela

Students will examine a timeline of events in South Africa from 1900-today. Students will respond to the quest
What evidence is there that apartheid existed in South Africa before 1948?
Students will read the National Partys platform and discuss what the party believed

Students will read a primary source that shows the different laws that existed during apartheid. Students will
record five of the laws in their own words in their notes.

Students will watch a video on the life of Nelson Mandela. Students will respond in their notes to the question How did Nelso
Mandela help bring an end to apartheid?

Step 5
South Africa
Today

Students will read an article that explains the state of South Africa since Apartheid. Students will create a Venn
diagram that shows their understanding of the similarities and differences between South Africa during aparth
and South Africa today.
Assessment

Assignment: Make an outline for your paragraph about whether South Africa has changed or remained the same since apartheid
Topic sentence needs to be written. The rest can be just ideas.

Explain Homework: Write a paragraph explaining whether South Africa has changed or remained the same since apartheid. Ne
to have a strong topic sentence and three pieces of evidence