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1 GULLAH LANGUAGE Brooke N. Daniels Teaching American History 4 Princeton City Schools

2 Content Objective: SWBT identify the location of the Gullah Islands as well as list the reasons its inhabitants where stationed there. Language Objective: SWBT retell the reasons why Africans were brought to the Gullah Islands and describe the effects isolationism on those people.

3 Key Vocabulary Isolation Gullah Islands South Carolina Plantation Rice

4 What is the long term effect of isolation on language?

5 Why Rice? Rice grew well Rice made money Location, Location, Location

6 Why Slaves from West Africa- Sierra Leone? Had success cultivating rice in their native country

7 Aspects Gold Coast Africans First stop of the Triangular Trade Caribbean Islands More English than African words Differences: Sound, Word Form, and Syntax New Words

8 Effects on Language Few changes are made Original language preserved Gullah Language

9 Ticket Out ISOLATION What is it? How did isolation serve the purpose of the white masters? What happens in isolation?


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