Author:    Gary Crane, Bonnie Baker,     Brad Kinser, Alan Henderson	Lesson title:      Contemporary World Leaders
Subject/grade:    Social Studies---10th Grade      World Leaders Lesson Plan	Specific subject:        Post-War World History
Time/duration: One week in May
Overview:                   Students are to choose one individual from a list of contemporary world leaders and match them with at least two relevant issues from another attached list. Then they will prepare a brief biographical powerpoint presentation to the class about how that leader dealt with those issues.
Christian perspective:    All of the relevant issues are important to the Christian faith. Among the issues will be the following: concern for gender equality, human rights, environment, freedom and slavery etc.
Learning goals: Students are to become familiar with recent world history and those individuals who impacted it the most Students are to make judgements about these individual’s impact on the issues.	Lesson objectives: Students do research using a database. Students analyze how their leader dealt with at least two of the issues on the list.   Students prepare and present a powerpoint to the rest of the class.
Student prerequisite skills:             Students must be able to use a digital data base in our high school library.                                                   Student must be able to do a powerpoint presentation
Technology, resources, materials:             The Student Resource Center “Gold”             Microsoft power point ’03 or newer
Procedures:                   Two days of research time in the Media Center using the computers must be reserved in advance. (They may also access the data base at home) Students draw topics at random Students research online and prepare a powerpoint for class. Students make presentations to the class
Assessment/rubric:              Students are to prepare a brief biographic powerpoint presentation with at least one slide being a photograph and the last slide containing bibliographic information. Students must have made connections to at least two relevant issues.
Bibliography:                                                                                                                                                              http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/   User name is norc72195                     Password is norc72195
Other: Attachments: List of World Leaders 1.      Hirohito    Japan 1901-1989 2.      Chiang Kai Shek    China/Taiwan   1887-1975 3.      Mao Zedong  China 1893-1976 4.      David Ben Gurion    Israel   1886-1973 5.      Nikita Khrushchev  Russia 1894-1971 6.      Kim Il Sung     North Korea 1912-1994 7.      Juan and Eva Peron    Argentina 1895-1974 (Juan) 8.      Fidel Castro  Cuba   1926-present 9.      Ho Chi Minh    Vietnam     1890-1969 10. Charles De Gaulle    France    1890-1970 11. Indira Ghandi    India   1917-1984 12. Ayatollah Khomeini    Iran  1900-1989 13. Gamal Abdul Nasser   Egypt 1918-1970 14. Anwar Sadat    Egypt    1918-1981 15. Deng Xiao Peng   China1904-1997 16. Mikhail Gorbachev    Russia  1931-Present 17. Nelson Mandela   South Africa   1918-present 18. Osama Bin Laden   Saudi Arabia   1957-present 19. Margaret Thatcher    United Kingdom   1925-present 20. Tony Blair   United Kingdom 1953-Present 21. Saddam Hussein     Iraq  1937-2006 22. Vladimir Putin   Russia   1952-present 23. Vicente Fox   Mexico  1942-present 24. Benazir Bhutto Pakistan  1953-present 25. Hosni Mubarak   Egypt  1928-present    List of Issues Gender equality Freedom and slavery Religion Environment Economic Change Human Rights Racial equality

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