"God Grew Tired of Us": Migration of Sudanese "Lost Boys" to U.S.

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This lesson was created by Brittany Lassen (Mount Pleasant Community School District) for tenth grade students. It is connected to Cultural Communication of the Lost Boys Through Barnga, a lesson plan created by Erin Coffey (Mount Pleasant Community School District) for students from tenth to twelfth grade. This lesson plan allows students to understand the conflict in Sudan.

Discipline/Subject

World Geography

Human Geography

World History

Sociology

Theme

Population

Cultural/Social

Region

Africa

Five Themes of Geography

Place

Human-Environment Interaction

Movement

Common Core Standards

Readings Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies (RH)

Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies (WHST)

National Geographic Standards

1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective

4. The physical and human characteristics of places

6. How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions

9. The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on Earth's surface

10. The characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics

17. How to apply geography to interpret the past

18. How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future

Iowa Core Social Studies Standards

BS 6. Understand the process of how humans develop, learn, adapt to the environment, and internalize their culture

GE 1. Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments

GE 2. Understand how physical and human characteristics create and define regions

GE 6. Understand how culture affects the interaction of human populations through time and space

GE 7. Understand how cultural factors influence the design of human communities

HI 2. Understand how and why people create, maintain, or change systems of power, authority, and governance

HI 3. Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintenance of societies

HI 6. Understand the effects of geographic factors on historical events

Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Putting Iowa in its place

"God Grew Tired of Us": Migration of Sudanese "Lost Boys" to U.S.