1. Child Soldiers Day 2

2. Agenda Snapshot/Do Now 5 min Recap Map 3 min Fact Sheet/Stats 15 min
True or False 3 min
BBV Video 4 min
Beah Video 1 6 min
Beah Video 2 6 min
Beah Video 3 3 min
Decolonization 10 min
Diagram 15 min

3. Snapshot
LT: I can analyze various sources of information to determine cause and consequence.
SC: I know I hit the LT when I can complete a cause and consequence diagram based on Child Soldiers Human Rights Violations.
WHY: causality, critical thinking, analysis

4. Recap Map What do you notice about this map?
What are wondering about the information this map shows? 

5. Child Soldiers Fact Sheet & Stats
With a partner, go over the fact and statistics sheet. 
What is 1 thing that surprised you? 
What is1 thing that changed, challenged or confirmed your thinking?

6. Some governments use child soldiers.
True or False?
Some governments use child soldiers.

7. Answer: TRUE
Child soldiers are used in some government armies. These include: Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan.

8. Child soldiers are always recruited or abducted by force.
True or False?
Child soldiers are always recruited or abducted by force.

9. Answer: False
Some join because of poverty, lack of education, or violence in their community.
“We heard that we could get money there. I went because I wanted to get enough money to go back to school. I wanted to eat and go back to pay for my education."
- Former girl soldier from Democratic Republic of Congo

11. We will be looking at what being a child soldier means from the perspective of one former child soldier. Ishmael Beah was a child soldier in Sierra Leone and he has written a book about his experiences.
Create list of words that explain what Ishmael Beah has ‘lost’ through the war
How did these experiences might have affected him and other child soldiers.
Before watching: Why are children used in war?- list
After: Did Ishmael Beah mention any of these reasons?
Child soldiers are often recruited to fight in wars because they can easily be manipulated, may be vulnerable and have few choices.
How might you feel having nothing that reminds you of your family or community. Imagine that you had to flee home. Think about this and what would one thing you would like to take in that situation?

12. African Decolonization

13. How decolonization has led to HR Violations

14. How decolonization has led to HR Violations
As a result of colonialism and imperialism, Africa suffered long term effects, such as the loss of important natural resources like gold and rubber, economic devastation, cultural confusion, geopolitical division, and political subjugation.
Europeans often justified this using the concept of the White Man's Burden, an obligation to "civilize" the peoples of Africa.
On February 12th 1941, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met to discuss the postwar world. The result was the Atlantic Charter.
One of the provisions in this document that was introduced by Roosevelt was the autonomy of imperial colonies. Therefore after World War II, there was pressure on Britain to abide by the terms of the Atlantic Charter

15. How decolonization has led to HR Violations
The legacy of European dominance remained evident in the national borders, political infrastructures, education systems, national languages, economies, and trade networks of each nation.
Cold War influenced the development of new African nations- pro-West or pro-East. 
Most African Countries were being developed during the worst part of Cold War
Countries were given aid by US or USSR OR had invasions/coups lead by US or USSR
Proxy Wars (Angola)

16. How decolonization has led to HR Violations
Consequently, right from the beginning, most of the African Administrations failed to: o Inspire loyalty in the citizenry o Produce a political class with integrity o Inculcate in the military, police and the security forces an understanding of their proper role in society o External factors: the Cold War, economic interests, etc

17. How decolonization has led to HR Violations
The General Causes of Human Rights Violations
 Racism (tribalism, ethnicism)
Migration
Poverty
 Ignorance
 Religious intolerance
 Monopoly of power
 Mismanagement
 Lack of judicial and press autonomy
 Border conflicts
Where did a lot of these issues originate from? 
Post-Colonialism forced new countries to deal with all of these issues.... at the same time...

18. How Colonialism Affected The Rwanda Genocide
As we read, highlight main ideas and anything that answers the essential question (title)

19. Connections
Draw a Diagram that connects causes and consequences of Human Rights Violations
Due Next Class

20. Conventions of the Rights of a Child
Articles 22, 32, 38
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21. Jigsaw Reading- Child Soldiers
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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