Week 27: Bantu Migration, Vietnam War and Gender

The student has a short two day week, as she will be out of town.

Math: Continue Algebra Course

Science: Sex Ed; Sexual Orientation and Gender (Video: Watch and write down any questions)

Geography: Ch 8, African Civilizations, Unit 2 Migration: Bantu Speaking People (Quizlet) Videos: Push-Pull Factors in Migration , Khan Academy, Bantu Migration

Essay Questions (Choose one). You may need to use the internet for research:

1. How does migration shape the modern world?
2. How did the migration of Bantu speaking people shape Africa?

US History: A Young People’s History, Chapter 18, “Vietnam”

Africa for Middle School Social Studies

Africa contains a rich history of culture, civilization, city-states and kingdoms that predate European colonization. These chapters focus on geography and climate, anthropology and human adaptation and interaction, and trade and economics. It begins with early African societies, West African ironworking and agriculture and the spread of technology, language, and religion. 

Some of the art presented:

• Nok Sculpture
• Aksum Architecture and Christian Murals
• Benin Sculpture
• Great Zimbabwe Architecture
• Selection of Bantu speaking masks

I. Ch 8, African Civilizations,

• Unit 1 Diverse Societies in Africa (Quizlet)

Videos: The Nok, Djenne Cities and Art,

Project: Create 3D map of Africa
Essay Questions (Choose one). You may need to use the internet for research:

1. What advantages would iron tools give a civilization?
2. What is the history of ironworking, what improvements have been made and how do they benefit life today?
3. Compare Djenne-Djeno and Nok culture.
4. How is the African Iron Age different from that in other regions?

• Unit 2 Migration: Bantu Speaking People (Quizlet)

Videos: Push-Pull Factors in Migration, Khan Academy, Bantu Migration



 Essay Questions (Choose one). You may need to use the internet for research:

1. How does migration shape the modern world?
2. How did the migration of Bantu speaking people shape Africa?

• Unit 3 The Kingdom of Aksum

(Quizlet, Video)

Essay Questions (Choose one). You may need to use the internet for research:

1. How did Aksum's location and interactions with other regions affect its development?
2. Why did the kingdom of Aksum decline?
3. Which of Aksum's achievements have continues into modern times?

II. Chapter 15 Societies and Empires of Africa

• Unit 1 North and Central African Societies

(Quizlet) Scarcity and Abundance Affect Trade: Supply and Demand Video, The Almoravids, Crash Course 16,

Choose an Essay Question:

1. What elements are necessary for mutually successful trade?
2. How do scarcity and abundance affect trade?
3. What was the effect of the Almohad rule on the Maghrib?

• Unit 2 Western African Civilizations

(Quizlet), Mansa Musa, Empires of West Africa

Unit 3 Eastern City States and Southern Empires (Quizlet)

Forced Human Migration

I will use a handout and ppt with more details.

Forced Human Migration 20161124 by KathyBenavides on Scribd

Here is the unit outline:

I. Introduction 

A.  Vocabulary (Chinese/ English)

1.  Migration移民                             a. Internally Displaced Person

2. Displacement    被迫移居他鄉               b. People without a country

3. Forced (coerced) 被迫的                       c. inside

4. Internal內部的                                       d. moving from one region to another

5. IDP                                                       e. Being made to do something against your will

6. Refugee難民；避難者；逃亡者              f. Person who travels to another country for protection

7. Stateless persons 無國籍的                    g. when people are forced to leave home

8. Asylum seekers 尋求                             h. Person who escaped their country because of political or religious reasons

READINGS:

A.   Refugee Numbers at Record Level (Vocabulary)

B.    Europe Under Fire For Refugee Policy

C.    New Lands New Customs

D. Internet for Refugees

EXTRA Reading : Syrian Refugee Top Student in Australian School




Videos with Chinese Subs:




BBC: the world's biggest refugee camp Dadaab in Kenya (Somalia refugees) 世界最大的難民營 肯亞 (索馬利亞難民)  4mins 

Dadaab: 







Refugee Crisis in South Sudan  南蘇丹的難民危機 3mins (English with Chinese subtitle) Health, medico, children...  2012 無國界醫生 / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

TED:  Let's help refugees thrive, not just survive  16 mins


讓我們幫助難民成功、不僅是倖存下來


Information about the speaker  Melissa Fleming Head of Communications and Spokesperson for UNHCR,




TED: The refugees of boom-and-bust 經濟興衰背後的難民 3mins

This video is a little old (2009) but it is short and mentions about human rights, how migrant workers became refugees. Information about the speaker:  Cameron Sinclair











RESOURCES:

http://migrationeducation.de/33.3.html

http://worldview.unc.edu/resources-for-teaching-the-syrian-refugee-crisis/

http://nationalgeographic.org/archive/xpeditions/lessons/09/g68/tgmigration.html

https://www.world-affairs.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Understanding-the-Syrian-Refugee-Crisis_Full-Version.pdf

http://www.iamsyria.org/teaching-about-the-refugee-crisis-and-making-a-difference.html

https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/may/25/how-to-teach-refugees

http://www.unhcr.org/552fd60b9.html