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Overview
In this lesson, students will design and complete a United Nations scavenger hunt, write a speech that speaks for the weak, poor and voiceless, and create a project to express a dream of how a current world situation could be improved.
Learning Objectives
In this lesson, students will do the following:
analyze a world event and write a speech.
synthesize information from a variety of sources.
create a project that expresses an understanding of world issues.
Bookmark the following sites:
http://www.un.org
http://www.globalpolicy.org/secgen/index.htm
http://www.unfoundation.org/
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/hrissues.htm
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/home.shtml
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/index.html#revising
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/
http://www.un.org/News/ossg/hilites.htm
Standards
Language Arts: Writing: Standard 1
 http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/Benchmark.asp?SubjectID=7&StandardID=1
Standard 1, Level IV, Grades 9-12:
Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process
Language Arts: Writing: Standard 2
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/Benchmark.asp?SubjectID=7&StandardID=2
Standard 2, Level IV, Grades 9-12:
Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing
Language Arts: Writing: Standard 4
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/Benchmark.asp?SubjectID=7&StandardID=4
Standard 4, Level IV, Grades 9-12:
Gathers and uses information for research purposes
Language Arts: Reading
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/Benchmark.asp?SubjectID=7&StandardID=7
Standard 7, Level IV, Grades 9-12:
Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts
Language Arts: Listening and Speaking
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/Benchmark.asp?SubjectID=7&StandardID=8
Standard 8, Level IV, Grades 9-12:
Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes
Life Skils: Thinking and Reasoning
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/Benchmark.asp?SubjectID=21&StandardID=6
Standard 6, Level IV, Grades 9-12:
Applies decision-making techniques
History: World History
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/Benchmark.asp?SubjectID=6&StandardID=44
Standard 44, Level IV, Grades 9-12:
Understands the search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world
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