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Title: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier


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A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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Monday
  • What are we doing
  • What are the objectives?
  • Africa Map
  • Africa is Diverse
  • Where is Sierra Leone?
  • Blood Diamonds
  • Graphic Organizer- Who is Ishmael Beah
  • Offer solutions to contemporary world problems-
    child soldiers/ blood diamonds.
  • Explain how scarcity influences society.

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What continent are they from?
  • What continent are they from?

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Where continent is he from?
  • Where is
  • he from?

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What continent are they from?
  • What continent are they from?

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Africa
  • Africa
  • Circle
  • Sierra
  • Leone
  • Quiz Fri

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Where is this located?
  • Where is this located?

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Where is this located?
  • Where is this?

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Africa
  • A continent- How many countries?
  • 3 times the size of the US.
  • 800 different languages
  • 800 different groups- very diverse.

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Sierra Leone
  • What do you remember about Sierra Leone from the
    chart?

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Sierra Leone
  • Population 5 million- roughly half the size of
    Ohio
  • Per Capita GDP Per Person 900/ US- 46,000
  • Life Expectancy 55/ US- 78
  • Infant mortality 12 deaths per 1,000- US deaths
    6 per 1,000

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Where is this located?

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Sierra Leone
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Ishmael Beah
  • Born Nov 23, 1980 in Sierra Leone
  • Civil War, 1991
  • Child Soldier at 13
  • Rescued, 1996
  • NYC, 1997
  • Graduated from Oberlin College, 2004

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Civil War in Sierra Leone
  • The Forgotten War
  • The Sierra Leone Civil War

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Ishmael Beah Foundation
www.beahfound.org
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Ishmael Beah
  • Video- http//video.google.com/videoplay?docid823
    8302889157571517
  • Graphic Organizer-
  • Who, What, When, Where and Why?
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