Content Area
Civil war, child soldiers, natural resources, & conflict
diamonds
Course/Grade Level
Strand
Global Issues A: 11th
Unit II: Issues in Africa
Unit Statement (Formerly Standard)
TLW
Identify Sierra Leone
Analyze Sierra Leone’s History
Examine the Revolutionary United Front: causes for formation, promises, acts of violence, relationship to
civil war
define colonialism
identify the legacy of colonialism on Africa
Define child soldiers
judge the methods for rehabilitation of child soldiers
Examine the KONY 2012 campaign
compare/Contrast KONY to Sierra Leone
examine and debate the tactics behind KONY 2012 videos
define conflict diamonds
locate areas with large diamond and other natural resources
explain the natural resource curse and interpret the effects
identify how rebel groups profit from illegal diamond business
analyze blood diamonds in popular culture
evaluate and propose solutions to Kimberley Process
Gist Identify and examine causes of issues related to the continent of
Africa in alignment to the novel A Long Way Gone including but
not limited to: legacy of colonialism, civil wars, child soldiers and
conflict diamonds
Prerequisite Vocabulary (Use a new line for each item)
dictatorship
natural resource
diamond
New Vocabulary (Use a new line for each item)
coup
colonialism
UNICEF-child soldier
disarm
demobilize
reintegrate
conflict diamond
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Concepts & Information
No. of
Days
Lesson 1:
Lesson 2:
Lesson 3:
Lesson 4:
Lessons-Sequence of Instruction/Rules & Procedures
1. TLW
Content Expectation(s):
Lesson 1:
Introduce issues in Africa with chapter on Africa use pg. 244-259 Current Issues:
Critical Policy Choices Facing the US and the World ©2007 Close Up Foundation
Review with students the popularity of Colonialism/white mans burden and identify
legacy of colonialism
Lesson 5:
Lesson 6:
Lesson 7:
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Lesson 16:
Lesson 2:
- Introduce Sierra Leone (country of Focus) with notes (powerpoint)
- Introduce Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone students will be reading this novel and
completing the discussion questions throughout this unit of study
Lesson 3:
- Review first 7 chapters of A Long Way Gone
- RUF and and civil war in sierra Leone notes (powerpoint)
Lesson 4:
- View Part I and Part II of KONY 2012 students to write down things they
learned, things they noticed (characteristics, methods, etc) and things they have
questions on after the video for both. www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc
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Discuss video and student notes
read together college students writing in reaction to KONY 2012 students to
evaluate writing
- Compare/Contrast KONY2012 to Sierra Leone
Lesson 5:
- Child soldier definition and civil war cont.
- Review questions 12 and 16 from A Long Way Gone discussion questions
- Journal/response: imagine you have been captured by the RUF and you are able
to get a letter out to your family. Write to them and tell them about your
experiences and feelings.
Lesson 6:
- Natural Resource Curse
- Blood Diamond notes (powerpoint)
- Kanye West and Jay-Z lyric analyzation: Diamonds in Sierra Leone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=92FCRmggNqQ
www.azlyrics.com/.../kanyewest/diamondsfromsierraleoneremix.html
Lesson 7:
- Blood Diamond the movie effect article
- Blood diamond free response questions
Lesson 8:
- National Geographic: Diamonds of War: Africa's Blood Diamonds (2007)
-
Blood Diamond Poster project
Lesson 9
- Effects of Sierra Leone civil war document based 5 paragraph essay question
writing assignment
Lesson 10
- Issues in Africa study guide and review
Unit Assessment.
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Partridge, 2012
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Lauren Partridge, 2012