1. 2015 Academic A Issues Facing Modern Africa Lesson Plan Date and Number Your Papers: Thursday, February 12, 2015 Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Block Days: Wednesday, February 18 or Thursday, February 19, 2015 Test Day: Friday, February 20, 2015 Notebooks Due: Monday, February 23, 2015 Mandela Hero and Wanted Posters Due: Monday, February 23, 2015

2. I will be checking your Apartheid Reading Notes and confirming your Level Recommendation for next year during the Quiet Question Prompt. You will be called up in alphabetical order.

3. Day One: Thursday, February 12, 2015 Quiet Question: Type Two Prompt--- Make sure you have out your Apartheid Interactive Notes to help you complete this prompt. The teacher is going to read aloud the biographical information on the anti-Apartheid leader, Steven Biko. As she does, you should be using Active Reading Strategies. We will then listen to the song by Peter Gabriel about Steven Biko. As we listen to the song, you should continue to use Active Reading Strategies with the song lyrics. Then you are to write a Biopoem on Steven Biko. Biopoem Format: Line 1: Steven Line 2: Four descriptive traits or adjectives on Biko Line 3: Who is the founder of.... Line 4: Lover of (one specific concept) Line 5: Who felt that....(three different ideas in relation to Blacks and Apartheid) Line 6: Who needed...( in context of what happened to him) Line 7: Who gave...(what to South Africa) Line 8: Who fears...(what) Line 9: Who would have been happy to see...(what aspect or event with the end of Apartheid) Line 10: Who is remembered for Line 11: Biko Do not repeat information or concepts. Use specific ideas, actions, and events. Use primary source quotes.

4. Day One: Thursday, February 12, 2015 Class: Now based upon what we have studied up until this point, you may be thinking that it was only the white colonists or their white African descendants oppressed or abused the black Africans. But unfortunately for Africa since independence, many of the black leaders continued this exploitation. These self-serving leaders have not only impeded the development of the continent but are also raping and depriving their people of their fair share of the countries’ resources. They all have something in common: They pretend to hold free and fair democratic election after jailing the opposition candidates. They imposed unnecessary emergency power laws to side-line the opposition parties. They manifest cult of personality syndromes. They have suppressive regimes and lack check and balance. They have bad governance. Their administrations are plaque by nepotism, bribery, cronyism and rampant corruption.

5. Day One: Thursday, February 12, 2015 The following political cartoon illustrates all the different problems plaguing the continent of Africa. Many of them due to the actions of the African dictators. These are some of the issues we will be studying with this lesson.

6. Day One: Thursday, February 12, 2015 Class: The teacher is going to do the Modern Issues Facing Africa PowerPoint Lecture. As she does, you should be taking notes in the provided graphic organizer. The following graphic organizer topics will be covered by the lecture: Dictators and Struggling Democracies Civil Wars and Tribalism Struggling Economies Health Epidemics Homework: Formative Assessment---You will be researching and creating a poster that will be used as a learning station to cover the remaining issues of facing Africa. TONIGHT’S HOMEWORK IS TO GET YOUR NOTES! We will be using the Jigsaw Method. You will be assigned one of the issues facing modern Africa to specialize in. You will go to the teacher page and access the PowerPoint that applies to your topic and take notes in the graphic organizer. You will then be working within a group of three to create an Informational Poster on the topic to teach the class about the material. PowerPoint Topics: Rwanda Genocide Darfur Genocide Blood Diamonds Boko Haram Child Soldiers Plus work on your Mandela Hero and Wanted Posters over the long weekend!

7. Day One: Thursday, February 12, 2015 Informational Poster: Topic Title at Top of Poster Minimum of THREE Pictures Illustrating DIFFERENT Aspects of the Topic----This should be glued on construction paper and each should have a minimum of three well-developed sentences explaining the visual as the caption for each. Chart----Graphic Organizer Categories What is the issue? Overview? Causes? Main Events? Effects?

8. Day Two: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Class: The teacher is going to finish the Modern Issues Facing Africa PowerPoint Lecture, and you should finish taking notes in the graphic organizer. Rest of Class/Homework: You will break into your groups and assign the different parts of the Informational Poster to your group members. Poster Parts: Three images with typed captions Graphic Organizer Information Typed: What is the issue? Overview? Causes? Main Events? Effects?

9. Days Three and Four: Block Day You have the first 25 minutes of the Block to assemble your posters. Then the rest of the Block, the posters will be hung up like Learning Stations. You will visit and fill in the graphic organizer. Homework: Finish Study Guide for test Friday. Work on your Africa Unit Notebook due on Monday. Work on the Mandela/Apartheid Summative Assessment due on Monday.