HW #10-2 Nelson Mandela

The Life of Nelson Mandela.

Read the following passage about the life of Nelson Mandela. When you have finished, re-read the passage and then answers the questions on the question sheet.

Nelson Mandela was born in Umtata, South Africa, in 1918. As a student in the 1940s he became involved in the struggle against apartheid – the system which segregated people according to their color and took many basic rights away from black people in South Africa.

During this period he also became involved with the A.N.C. (the African National Congress), the political party which he would eventually lead. In 1952 he and his friend Oliver Tambo became the first black people to open and run a law firm in South Africa. A turning point for Nelson Mandela and for the ANC came in 1960 when the South African police killed 69 black people who were demonstrating against the government in Sharpeville.

As a result of these killings, the ANC decided that non-violent protests were not working. Soon after, Mandela was arrested and sent to prison.

During the years that Mandela was in prison (firstly on Robben Island and later in Pollsmoor Prison near Cape Town), the South African government came under more and more pressure to end the system of apartheid. In 1990 the white president F.W. de Clerk decided to release Nelson Mandela from prison. Two years later, de Clerk and his government began scrapping the laws which discriminated against black people.

In April 1994 South Africa held its first free election in which people of all races were allowed to vote. At this election Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa – the first black person to ever hold the office.

	1.	What was apartheid?  (1 pt)

	2.	What do the initials A.N.C. stand for?  (1 pt)

	3.	What job did Nelson Mandela begin doing in 1952?  (1 pt)

	4.	What happened to make the ANC decide that non-violent protest didn’t work?  (1 pt)

	5.	What were the black people doing when they were killed at Sharpeville in 1960?  (1 pt)

	6.	In which two places were Nelson Mandela imprisoned?  (1 pt)

	7.	When was Mandela released from jail?  (1 pt)

	8.	In what year did F.W. de Clerk’s government begin to scrap the system of apartheid?  (1 pt)

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Use your books or the internet to find out three more facts about South Africa

Homework# 11-2 Letter to a government officials.

Imagine you are a citizen of South Africa  during   Apartheid. Write a letter to a government official explaining what changes you think should be made in the country. Include an intro (explain what the problem is and why it's unfair), two changes that you would make to make life better for everyone, and a conclusion (explain what would happen if your changes aren't met.)

Homework #9-2 District 9 Create a diary entry, video, audio recording, graffiti or post an image imagining what it would be like to be a non human in South Africa during this time period.

Go to this website, you will create one post that contains one sentence describing what it would be like to be a non human in South Africa during this time period. 
With this, please accompany your statement with an image, video, or audio clip. Be sure to put your first name and last initial only and period of your class.

HW#8-2 Arguement

Generate Arguments: When you write a persuasive essay, you want to support your thesis statement with valid, convincing arguments.  Write down ideas for three arguments supporting the following thesis: The ANC was a valuable political party even though it did not affect the white-run government of South Africa for many years.

HW#7-2 Thesis Statement

Write a Thesis Statement: A persuasive essay seeks to convince its reader to accept the writer’s position on a topic.  To be effective the thesis statement must state a position that provokes valid arguments.  Write an effective thesis statement on the topic of economic nationalism in Latin America.

HW #6-2 Gravestone death of democracy.

Create a gravestone for the death of democracy in many African countries.  

Criteria for success: Your gravestone must include the following:

·        at least 4 pictures of the reasons why democracies often failed

·        at least 4 pictures of the kinds of things that happen under military dictatorships

·        at least 8 explanations next to the grave stone that explain what you drew
·     add color to your gravestone and  a map of Africa.