Early Protest Movements · B5 History

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B5.5.1.1.1 - Identify the early protest movements in Ghana before 1945.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Define a protest movement in their own words and give a simple example.
Name the three main early protest movements in Ghana before 1945.
State the year in which each of the three protest movements was formed.
Match each protest movement to at least one key founding leader or group of leaders.
Explain in one or two sentences why these movements were formed.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Journey to Independence (Strand 5)
Sub-strand: Early Protest Movements (5.1)
Content standard: B5.5.1.1 - Show understanding of the factors that led to the formation of early protest movements in Ghana before1945
Indicator: B5.5.1.1.1 - Identify the early protest movements in Ghana before 1945.
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 8 (Week 20 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Source document note: The official curriculum document has a fault in this entry, so the curriculum text above is transcribed exactly as printed:

exemplars - p.35: Activity 2 is followed by three dashed lines naming the movements; the first is printed '-Aborigines Rights Protection Society-ARPS- 1897' with no space after the dash, so it is set on the same logical line as activity 2 by the extraction. Split back out.
exemplars - p.35: A stray ':' is printed on a line of its own above 'Enquiry routes:'. Not transcribed.
Curriculum reference: History Curriculum (Basic 1-6), 2019, p. 35
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Enquiry routes: what do we mean by early protest movements? What were some of these early protest movements? Who were the leaders of these early protest movements? What factors led to the formation of these movements
1. What is a protest movement?
2. List the main protest movements in Ghana before 1945:
-Aborigines Rights Protection Society-ARPS- 1897
- National Congress of British West Africa-NCBWA- 1917
- The Gold Coast Youth Conference- 1929
3. Discus the sequence of events that led to the formation of these movements (refer to subsequent indicators)