Monday-Powerpoints on slavery. 
 
Tuesday-Role play: students will role play what it must have felt like to be a slave during the middle passage. Students then write a letter home to family in Africa about their capture, the middle passage, and life on the plantation. 
Homework: Finish letter to Africa.(due Wednesday) 
 
Wednesday-Students will read letters written to family in Africa. Film on slave trade, middle passage, and triangular trade.  
 
Thursday-The Spanish Mission system 
 
Friday- Students discuss the role of holidays in a culture and use these ideas to analyze four significant holidays in Mexico.