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Trevor NoahA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
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Short Answer
1. South Africa’s apartheid policy, a system of racial segregation, lasted from 1948 to the early 1990s. What do you know about South African apartheid? Who were the key political figures that were involved? Why did it end?
Teaching Suggestion: This question will equip students with a firm, historically accurate foundation of facts for discussion of the larger theme in Born a Crime of Identity and Race in Apartheid South Africa. Students may have very little knowledge of how apartheid functioned in South Africa. If conversation is slow to start, you can ask some leading questions, such as: Have you ever heard of Nelson Mandela? You may also elect to walk through the following resources together as a class:
Differentiation Suggestion: For advanced learners, consider having students draw connections at Bloom’s Taxonomy levels of analysis and synthesis between South African apartheid and racial segregation in the United States.
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