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Week One
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Day
1
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Overview of
unit: paper of expectations for the unit
distributed, activities and assignments explained. Any questions that
students have will be answered. Brief lecture about the birth of the U.N.
and the events leading up to it.
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Day
2
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Lecture:
bodies of the U.N., history of the U.N.
http://www.un.org/aboutun/mainbodies.htm
http://www.un.org/aboutun/history.htm
http://www.un.org/aboutun/milestones.htm
Students must return the following
morning with a half-sheet of paper for the teacher indicating which country
they will write an essay on: choices are Chile, China, and Egypt.
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Day 3
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Country choices
collected at the beginning of class.
Group
Activity: Introduction to the United Nations website: http://www.un.org
The teacher
will select the groups, assuming one computer per three students is
available. Groups will navigate their way through the U.N. website with the
guide of a question sheet developed by the
teacher, with an emphasis on the U.N. Charter,
developmental milestones,
and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
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Day 4
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Lecture:
United States and the United Nations; the lecture will be accompanied by
navigation through the United Nations website by the teacher.
http://www.un.int/usa/
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Day 5
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Independent
research via the internet.
Chile
China
Egypt
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Week Two
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Day 6
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Lecture and
discussion: Looking at the economic power of Chile, China, Egypt, and the
United States. Teacher will navigate through http://www.factmonster.com/countries.html
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Day 7
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In-class
discussion about the book Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global
Challenges by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss of the
United Nations Intellectual History Project; foreword by Kofi A. Annan
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Day 8
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Independent
research via the internet.
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Day 9
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Closure: Class discussion: How does
economic power reflect in the United Nations? Is this a just way to
maintain world balance? Class discussion may focus on:
http://www.un.org/News/facts/confercs.htm
http://www.mir.com.my/lb/un/html/28sept1997a.htm
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Day 10
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Guest
speaker: invite an expert to speak to the students, or make arrangements
with a local college so that the students can attend a lecture at a college
campus. Example: ‘Dr. Carole Fink, professor of European international
history at Ohio State University, will present “The United Nations and
Human Rights, 1945-2000"’ from:
http://www.uncwil.edu/uniadv/relations/releases/october2000/fink.html
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Unit Ends
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Day 11
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Essays*
collected, new unit begins.
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