Students work with a partner to try to guess the top ten of various lists including, most populous country, highest per capita income, most oil consumed, longest average life span...
1) Click on the link above. A Word document will open. This is the class syllabus. PRINT THIS SYLLABUS. This is the first element to include in your notebook. YOUR PARENT(S) MUST READ THE SYLLABUS TONIGHT. YOUR PARENT(S) MUST SIGN THE LAST PAGE. THIS LAST PAGE WILL BE COLECTED TOMORROW.
DAY 2: TUESDAY, JAN 31
TOPIC: Getting to know our world in 2012.
PART 1: Shrinking the world to a village of 100 people....
ACTIVITY: What if the world were a village of 100 people.
HANDOUT: What if the world were a village of 100 people?
PART 2: Introduction to Map Analysis
HANDOUT: What can I learn from a map anyway?
Students analyze cloropleth maps of Africa.
DAY 3: WEDNESDAY, FEB 1
TOPIC: Map analysis: Cartograms
HANDOUT: What can I learn from a map anyway (distributed yesterday)
Students use classroom atlases to name countries high the variable "x." They then make inferences to guess what the variable might represent. A sample cartogram is shown below.
Shown above... MUSLIM POPULATION
Shown above... CHRISTIAN POPULATION
DAY 4: THURSDAY, FEB 2
IN CLASS WRITING SAMPLE AND ASSESSMENT: Students will use the information gathered from discussion, activities, and map analysis from the last three days to address an open ended prompt.
PROMPT: Complete the statement: "The world in 2012 is ____________." Carefully choose your best possible argument, or answer to the question. Using your notes, carefully choose evidence to defend your argument. THis evidence can be anything you learned in the past week of class including maps, graphs, discussions, notes. etc. Explain how the evidence defends your argument.
DAY 5: FRIDAY, FEB 3
TOPIC: Introduction to STAGES OF HISTORY
Stage 1: Exploration
DAY 6: MONDAY, FEB 6
TOPIC: Stage 2 IMPERIALISM
Document analysis
DAY 7: TUESDAY, FEB 7
TOPIC: Stage 2 IMPERIALISM
Document analysis: Answer the three questions on the back of the organizer used in class yesterday.
DAY 8: WEDNESDAY, FEB 8
TOPIC: STAGE 3 Independence
The student will list and explain reasons why European countries granted independence to imperialized lands after 1945.
HANDOUTS: Stage 3 Independence (Cold War on back) & Cold War Tug of War
Students create a two sided chart on the back of the Tug of War handout.
INDEPENDENCE
COLD WAR
Define: DECOLONIZATION
Take notes about the reasons why European governments granted independence
Define: COLD WAR
Take notes about how the Cold War impacted the newly independent countries
(THIS INFORMATION COVERED ON FRIDAY!)
DAY 9: THURSDAY, FEB 9
TOPIC: MCCAULEY ABSENT
Students will read excerpts from Africa, Altered States, Ordinary Miracles. We will return to this reading at the end of our unit to illustrate the effects of globalization on Nigeria.
DAY 10: FRIDAY, FEB 10
TOPIC: The Cold War
NOT-SO-POP "POP QUIZ"
INDEPENDENCE
COLD WAR
Define: DECOLONIZATION
Take notes about the reasons why European governments granted independence
(THIS INFORMATION COVERED WEDNESDAY)
Define: COLD WAR
Take notes about how the Cold War impacted the newly independent countries
DAY 11: MONDAY, FEB 13
TOPIC: STAGE 4 GLOBALIZATION
The student will define globalization.
The student will explain how supply chains cause globalization and connect American consumers to people around the globe.
Activity 1: Review Cold War and the impact on Africa
Define COLD WAR, discuss the impact on Africa. Students will complete the thought and voice bubbles on the "Cold War Tug of War Handout."
Activity 2: Introduction to Stage 4 Globalization
Define GLOBALIZATION and SUPPLY CHAIN
On board: Example of a supply chain for an iPad.
DAY 12: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14
TOPIC: STAGE 4 GLOBALIZATION
The student will evaluate the ways supply chains impact producers and consumers by watching a video about Foxconn in China.
The student will evaluate the impact of Western materialism on the environment.
The student will evaluate the impact of Western materialism on the conflicts in central Africa.
What is Foxconn?
Foxconn is a multinational electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Taiwan. It is the world's-largest maker of electronic components and circuit boards. Foxconn supplies electonci components to American, European and Japanese companies, including Apple. Notable products which the company manufactures include the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Playstation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360. Foxconn has factories in Slovakia, Mexico, India, Brazin and China. Foxconn is the largest public sector employer in China.
DAY 13: WEDNESDAY, FEB 15
How do materialism and "supply chains" connect me to others in the world?
What is the environmental cost of globalization?
Are there postive impacts of globalization? What is the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Resolution?
The student will examine the impact of globalization on Nigeria by analyzing a series of documents.
The student will apply the generalization of Stage 4 to the reading (Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Dowden).
Since the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram carried out its deadliest attack yet last Friday in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, killing at least 185 people, opinion writers have been mulling over what the country should do about the group that has killed at least 935 people since 2009. Readers looking for a basic explanation of Nigeria’s woes should start with Jenerali Ulimwengu’s columnin the East African. “Basically, Nigeria is not very different from other African countries whose diverse populations were cobbled together by the colonial powers in their own interest,” he writes. A simple idea worth remembering."
List and describe the impacts of globalization in Nigeria.
1. Distribute graphic organizer and slide packet. Allow students fifteen minutes to analyze the documents.
2. At the end of 15 minutes, they must begin recording ideas into the organizer: "How globalization impacts Nigeria." Allow ten mintues to add ideas to organizer. They MUST WORK QUIETLY AND INDEPENDENTLY.
3. Distribute HANDOUT: Who is Ken Saro Wiwa? Allow ten minutes for students to read the front side of the paper.
5. Following the video, students will read the second article, Shell to Pay $15.5 million to Settle. Allow fifteen mintues to finish reading.
6. With the remaining time in class, the students can begin preparing for the quiz on Monday. Instruct them to return to the reading from yesterday. They should look for quotes or excerpts from the reading that relate to the issues they identified on the graphic organizer. QUIZ TUESDAY: Describe globalization's economic, political, social, and environmental impact on Nigeria.
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