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//As educators we have the responsibility to promote diversity, provide critical thinking, and to expose students to the tragedies of yesterday and today. The opportunity to provide students with the knowledge to learn, and the will to achieve is the first step in assuring that the horrific events of the past do not reoccur today or tomorrow. Provided are several lesson plans for various grade levels and subjects pertaining to the issues of apartheid, cultural diversity, and human rights.

__**Lesson Plans:**__//

//This lesson will allow students to gain some background in South Africa's recent history under apartheid and the post apartheid years. They will examine the current election and appreciate the electorate's decision in choosing leadership for the next five years.//
 * [|South Africa After Ten Years of Freedom]**

//Students will discuss who Nelson Mandela is and what he did to help South Africans gain the right to vote and participate in other activities. Students will participate in a voting activity and discuss it's importance.
 * [|Appreciating Freedom: An End to Apartheid in South Africa]**

Objective: Students will discuss general information about the Atlantic slave trade; review facts about the St. John revolt and brainstorm individuals and groups involved in the rebellion; and write a personal account from the point of view of one person involved in the revolt.//
 * [|Slavery, Society, & Apartheid]**

//Objective: Students will understand the following: (1) Nations try to influence the actions of other nations by employing economic sanctions. (2) Citizens of a nation may disagree on the morality and effectiveness of economic sanctions. Review with your students the conditions of apartheid in South Africa until its dissolution in the early 1990s. Then discuss the cause-effect relationship between economic sanctions carried out by the international community and the end of apartheid. Explain........//
 * [|Population Diversity and Human Rights]**

//In this activity students will read about his life, his writings, and the views of biographers, colleagues, and friends on his life and legacy. Students will be able to summarize Mandela's origins and his life and students will be able to apply what they have learned to write three entries in an imaginary diary of Mandela, covering different stages of his life.//
 * [|Mandela]**

//In this lesson, students will examine two songs written and performed by Johnny Clegg and Savuka. The student will be able to: write questions which will focus upon significant aspects of the apartheid systems and its effects; practice interviewing a person by using music as the medium; reassess information and one's ability to.........//
 * [|Life Under Apartheid]**

//This activity is based upon the unequal access to education that existed under the apartheid system in South Africa. It introduces the concept of apartheid as a crucially important reason for the historical denial of the right to education for the majority of South African children.//
 * [|Discrimination In Education]**

//Objectives:// Students will be able to: //research history, culture, and socio-political issues in South Africa;// //learn about the country of South Africa by engaging in research and writing activities;// //communicate their understanding of how natural resources impact culture;// //learn and write about apartheid.//
 * [|South Africa Story: Apartheid, Diamonds, & Gold]**