Unit On Africa

From taking this class I have found out that many people are uneducated about the harsh realities that are going on Africa. The only way we can stop the misunderstandings and stop being a people so involved in things that only concern us directly is to become an educated people. Although educating someone at the college level is good, why does it have to wait until the college level? Many people say that the most impressionable students are the students in a K-12 classroom because they want so much to be accepted and find out who they are. My Africa unit plan is not only designed to help students learn something about Africa but it is also an attempt to get students to think outside themselves and see a world bigger than the one they know. It is an attempt to get students to hopefully gain a small perspective on the issues they might face and the issues that a child their own age faces everyday in Africa. This unit is not just about Africa, although the students will be educated on events and issues in Africa, but this unit is about me possibly being a naïve upcoming teacher and hoping that even if what I am trying to get across to the students affects only one student, that maybe that one student may affect another person, and that I made a difference.