English 8 - Mockfjärd

Wednesday Read & translate page 28 - 29 textbook Discuss "React and respond" - question 1, 2, 4 (page 29 textbook) Activity book:  Write p 38 - 39  Listening  p. 40 - 41 Vocabulary p. 42 - 43 Write:  How would an American say it? (p 45 activity book)  Reading : Read the texts on page 46-47 - answer questions on page 48 Homework words until next Tuesday! Tuesday Start by thinking - how many states do you know by name? Write down in groups. (P read: Strategic tips p 38 Activity book) Textbook: State symbols of the USA - listen (go through words), read, translate

Wednesday Next week: Tuesdays Mille Speak:  Discuss "React & respond" page 33  Find out + speak:  Explore the text A + B (find out, write key words, tell your friend) Speak:  Famous Americans (p 45 activity book) Write:  How would an American say it? (p 45 activity book)  Reading : Read the texts on page 46-47 - answer questions on page 48 Tuesday Speak: Discuss together - the square page 44 act. book Translate "American Dreams" part one into Swedish - Pernie Listen to part 2 - read & try to translate together (page 32 - 33 textbook) Speak: Discuss "React & respond" page 33  Find out + speak: Explore the text A + B (find out, write key words, tell your friend) Speak: Famous Americans (p 45 activity book) Write: How would an American say it? (p 45 activity book)  Reading : Read the texts on page 46-47 - answer questions on page 48

Wednesday The  Atlantic slave trade  or  transatlantic slave trade  involved the transportation by slave traders of  enslaved African people  to the  Americas . European  slave ships  regularly used the  triangular trade  route and its  Middle Passage . Europeans established a coastal  slave trade  in the 15th century, and trade to the Americas began in the 16th century, lasting through the 19th century. British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade began in  1562 , and by the 1730s Britain was the world's biggest slave-trading nation. The triangular route from Europe to Africa, to the Americas and back to Europe was highly lucrative. I n late August, 1619, 20-30 enslaved Africans landed at Point Comfort, today's Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., aboard the English privateer ship White Lion . In Virginia, these Africans were traded in exchange for supplies.  Those first "20 and odd" Africans  who land...