Week 6 Gr 8 Social Sciences History

Resources:

Please use SSH Textbook to do the readings

Find questions emailed to you from Ms Bengis-Wright. The same questions may also be found on
the SSH 8 google classroom. The password will be emailed to you. For those without textbooks
with them, the relevant pages will also be attached as jpeg images.

Week 6 (4 – 8 May)

Read the pages below and complete questions emailed to you. Mark your answers once memo has
been sent. Memos to the week’s work will always be sent to you on a Friday, so make sure your
readings and questions are completed before Friday midday.

Lesson 10: (45min “lesson time” plus 15min homework = 1 hour)

Subtopic 1: Britain, diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansionism

Unit 5: The Randlords and the formation of the Chamber of Mines (pg. 152)

Lesson 11: (45min “lesson time plus 15 min homework = 1 hour)

Subtopic 1: Britain, diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansionism

Unit 6: Migrant workers (more systematic control and borrowing of compound system from
Kimberley) (pgs. 153- 155)