Chimamanda Adichie - "The Danger of a Single Story" @ 4:11-5:51
Iran
Nicholas Kristof - "My Iranian Road Trip"
On the Road in Iran graphic organizer
"On the Road in Iran" Upfront
1979: Iran's Islamic Revolution
Cultural Competencies
8:00 - 8:15
Introductions: Describe the ways you address human rights in your classroom.
8:15 - 8:25
8:25 - 8:50
"The world is demanding citizens and workers have the knowledge, skills and dispositions to act creatively and effectively on issues of global significance. And American schools are trying to respond to this urgent demand." ~ Asia Society
8:50 - 9:00
Assumptions & Dangers in Single Stories
9:00 - 9:15
Primary & Secondary Sources
Discussion Question: Which of the two types of sources, primary or secondary,
do you feel your students would state is more credible?
Discussion Question: What do we know about the Rwandan genocide? What
messages does the following clip relay. 1:07
Empathy vs. Good Intention
Middle East Role Play
How the Middle East Got That Way graphic organizer
RAP-How the Middle East Got That Way
How the Middle East Got That Way
Is it in the Middle East?
Dividing up Africa Role Play
Map of Africa - Ethnicities
THURSDAY
6.16.16
Santa Activity
Schedule
Cultural Consulting
Rwanda Timeline
Burundi Timeline
(Dangers in a single story via primary sources and/or secondary sources)
A VERY Short History of Rwanda
African Men. Hollywood Stereotpyes
9:15 - 10:00
Liberian Map - Tribes (Charles Taylor)
True size of Africa
God Grew Tired of Us - Lost Boys of Sudan
18:00 - 33:50
God Grew Tired of Us: What's Your Argument?
History of the Lost Boys
The Refugee Project Map
Virtual Reality
Clouds Over Sidra (Syrian Refugee Camp)
10:00 - 10:10
Break
10:10 - 10:25
Team Refugee
Flavio's Home
Wall in Rio 2009
Wall in Rio 2015
Waste Land
10:25 - 10:40
China & Korea:
China's Lost Girls video notes
China's One Child Policy DBQ
China's One Child Policy-Was it a Good Idea? pro/con
A State of Mind video notes
Aquariums of Pyongyang RAP sheet-Public Executions
The Aquariums of Pyongyang chapter-Public Executions
The Aquariums of Pyongyang chapter-The Wild Boar
Aquariums of Pyongyang RAP sheet- The Wild Boar
The Aquariums of Pyongyang graphic organizer
ZOOM
Human Rights
10:40 - 11:00
Human Rights & Social Innovation
Human Rights across the globe (as well as the U.S.)
"Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee has two powerful stories to tell — of her own life's transformation, and of the untapped potential of girls around the world. Can we transform the world by unlocking the greatness of girls?"
Social Innovation - Changing Systems
"A social innovation is a novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than present solutions and for which the value created accrues primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals." ~Center for Social Innovation at Stanford Graduate School
McKinsey & Company: Social Innovation
"This missed opportunity, although an obvious omission in hindsight, is all too common. Time and again, initiatives falter because they are not based on the client’s or customer’s needs and have never been prototyped to solicit feedback. Even when people do go into the field, they may enter with preconceived notions of what the needs and solutions are. This flawed approach remains the norm in both the business and social sectors."
~ "Design Thinking for Social Innovation" Stanford Innovation Review
Human-Centered Design
"is a creative approach to problem solving and the backbone of our work at IDEO.org. It's a process that starts with the people you're designing for and ends with new solutions that are tailor made to suit their needs."
~IDEO
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:45
Lunch on Own
Tour the Food Prize Hall of Laureates
12:45 - 2:00
Basic Human Rights - Water
Glossary
The scope of the world water crisis (fill-in-the-blank)
The scope of the world water crisis
Lesson plan on water (UN)
Activity on water, the defining crisis of the 21st Century
Resources on the water crisis
Facts and figures on right to water
Three non-traditional texts on the world water crisis
Water-related illness in Darfur
Water crisis unites Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians
Images of California before and after the drought
Diary of Jay-Z in Africa: Water for Life by Jay Z
2:20 - 3:40
3:40 - 4:00
Ten Stages of Genocide
Genocide or No?
4:00 - 4:45
Tour of Iowa Holocaust Memorial
FRIDAY
6.17.16
8:00 - 10:00
Text Sets:
Strength in What Remains
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide, he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars, no English, and no contacts. He ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores. Then Deo begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing. Kidder breaks new ground in telling this unforgettable story as he travels with Deo back over a turbulent life and shows us what it means to be fully human.
A Long Walk to Water
The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing and moving way.
Enrique's Journey
Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, this page-turner about the power of family is a popular text in classrooms and a touchstone for communities across the country to engage in meaningful discussions about this essential American subject.
Enrique’s Journey recounts the unforgettable quest of a Honduran boy looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States. Braving unimaginable peril, often clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains, Enrique travels through hostile worlds full of thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. But he pushes forward, relying on his wit, courage, hope, and the kindness of strangers. As Isabel Allende writes: “This is a twenty-first-century Odyssey. If you are going to read only one nonfiction book this year, it has to be this one.”
Break
10:00 - 10:10
10:10 - 11:10
Human Rights Collage
11:10 - 11:20
Review of Lesson Plan & Questions
11:20 - 1:00
Work Time