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Christy McCanna's Lesson Plan 3-D-1 Lesson: The Crisis in Darfur **
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 **Standards Addressed ** · Ethnicity and Race · Working conditions · Immigration · Military conflict · Economic Stability  Objectives ** 1. Using prior knowledge of Rwanda, students will compare the situation in the Darfur region of Sudan with the genocide in Rwanda.
 * 5.1.W.B: ** Analyze how conflict and cooperation among groups and organizations have influenced the history and development of the world.
 * 5.4.W.C: ** Identify the role of international organizations.
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2. Students will analyze the data provided, George Clooney’s speech to the United Nations, and a political cartoon to formulate a response to the ethnic cleansing in Darfur. Required Materials ** <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Lesson – 81 minutes ** Introduction **
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 * Living Darfur video - []
 * George Clooney’s speech to the United Nations (mp3 version / transcript) - []
 * Political Cartoon - []
 * World Health Organization - []
 * NARA worksheets for documents and cartoons
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· <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Living Darfur video – 4 minutes – students see the displaced people of Darfur Body **
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· <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Using computers, students will listen to George Clooney’s speech to the United Nations – they can then use the transcript to complete the NARA worksheet

· <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Students will then use the NARA worksheet to analyze the political cartoon

· <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Using what they have learned in their analysis of the speech and cartoon, combined with the data provided by the World Health Organization, students will write a letter to the politician of their choice (President Obama, senator, UN, etc.) as a response to the ethnic cleansing happening in Darfur. They must clearly articulate their opinion of what the United States / World should do about the situation in Darfur, provide facts and data to support their opinion, and relate the information to what they already know about the genocide in Rwanda. Closing **<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What part of today’s lesson had the most impact on your opinion of the situation in Darfur? (video, cartoon, speech, data, etc.)
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Students’ letters will be assessed – they will be due the day after the lesson.
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Christy, Bravo! Your lesson has it all--technology, political and moral issues, individual interpretation, formulation and application of opinion of knowledge gained, and real world connections. I love the real world aspect in particular. This is all happening today, and the students will be ultimately writing a letter to a world leader to draw attention to the situation. It seems that so many people fail to see the connections between happenings around the world and our every day lives, or how we could make a difference. This would really get your kids thinking and moving in positive directions! jess

Christy, I'm not real familiar with history classes but this is an interesting topic you chose. It gets away from the typical history topics and has the students react to a problem thats happening in their life time right now. I think having them write a letter to their politician can show them that they can be proactive about events in our world. Nice job. (Ed Rabel)


 * Christy, **
 * You have a lesson that will make this issue come alive for your students. Having a popular icon like George Clooney in your lesson will definitely cause them to pay greater attention to what you are focusing on. This lesson really brings a real world issue to the classroom. Jeanine **