Please do not talk at this time March 20

• Take a moment to prepare for your test.

• When you are finished with your test, turn in your map and your scantron and get a reading on the UN.

• Finish underlining evidence of the UN’s success for homework.

The United NationsAre they the right tool for the 21st

Century?

Please do not talk at this Time March 23

Please read the section on the United Nations on Pg. 28 - 29 in your text book. What is the UN and what is its purpose?

Then review the two pieces of information you have on What the United Nations has done in Afghanistan and Bosnia. On a half sheet exit card please answer the following:

What evidence do you have that the UN is doing a good job? What evidence do you have that they are NOT doing a good job?

Organization of the United Nations:

General Assembly- World Congress. 2/3 Majority required to pass a vote. Resolutions are not binding. No control over Peace and Security Matters.

The UN Security Council- 15 countries, 5 permanent members with Veto power for all issues: USSR, USA, France, Britain, China. All Security Council decisions are binding and must ba carried out by countries in the UN. Controls the UN Armed Forces and all military operations.

Economic and Social Council- This group promotes development of international economic and social program like promoting equality for women in the workplace and loans for technology and science programs.

International Court of Justice- This is the court where international disputes, war crimes, illegal state interference and crimes against humanity are heard and judged.

UN Secretariat- This group caries out the business of the UN and gets makes a reality of the directives it gets.

Goals of the United NationsThe Aims of the United Nations: • To keep peace throughout the world. • To develop friendly relations between nations. • To work together to help people live better lives, to eliminate

poverty, disease and illiteracy in the world, to stop environmental destruction and to encourage respect for each other's rights and freedoms.

• To be a centre for helping nations achieve these aims. The Principles of the United Nations: • All Member States have sovereign equality. • All Member States must obey the Charter. • Countries must try to settle their differences by peaceful means. • Countries must avoid using force or threatening to use force. • The UN may not interfere in the domestic affairs of any country. • Countries should try to assist the United Nations.

Typical UN Programs:

• UNICEF- Medical, nutritional and educational help for poor children around the world.

• UNESCO- Helping develop education, science and culture around the world.

• WHO- Tracking and intervening in world health issues.

• World Bank- International development loans• WFP- Food program to transfer food from

wealthy countries to areas of starvation

Typical UN Actions:• Responding to natural disasters like the

south Asian tsunami that took out Acre.• Brokering a peace deal during the Cuban

Missile Crisis.• Fighting the Korean War• Looking for Weapons of Mass Destruction in

Iraq and Iran• Wiping out Small Pox and Polio• Holding war crimes trials like the Nuremberg

Trials after WWII and the Genocide trials after Kosovo.

Lets try it together…

• Turn to pg. 695 in your book and look for things the UN has done that could fit in your chart.

United Nations Actions

Share Out….

Successful Actions of the UN Unsuccessful Actions of the UN

Action:Details:Why was it successful:

Action:Details:Why was it unsuccessful:

Please do not talk at this time March 24HW: No Homework

Today you will be detectives investigating the United Nations. You want to decide if overall the UN is doing a good job. To do this, you need to know what they are doing right and what they are not doing well. Then you will compare your lists and make a judgment about the UN. You will decide if it is successful enough to keep around or if it will need to be replaced with something else. When you do this, you will be EVALUATING.

The United NationsAre they the right tool for the 21st

Century?

Is the UN the right tool for the 21st Century?Procedure:1. Each group will get a set of readings about the UN. Some of these are very positive.

Some are negative. These readings include tables, stories, reports and articles. They are also at different reading levels.

2. Choose a reading from the selections and read it. Record notes on what you read into the following organizer:

United Nations Actions

You want as many details as possible for the evidence you find so that you can clearly judge the success or failure of the UN.

3. When you are done with one reading, take up another one. The more information you have, the better.

4. Save your last 4 boxes (two on each side) for the next step…

Successful Actions of the UN Unsuccessful Actions of the UN

Action:Details:Why was it successful:

Action:Details:Why was it unsuccessful:

Consider these people: Using the number you got at the start of class, consider find your Point Of View Person. Your team will have three Points of View to Consider (one for each person in your team). You will work as a group to answer the focus question from ONE of those people’s perspectives. Use your last 4 boxes for this information.

1. A public health official from Afghanistan

2. An Indian child with polio

3. A member of the Security Council from Kenya (non permanent member)

4. A survivor of the genocide in Bosnia

5. A representative in the General Assembly from Rwanda

6. An official in the Department of Forestry in Turkey

7. A doctor who works with impoverished countries

8. A citizen of South Korea

9. A citizen of Iraq

10. The mayor of a town hit by a 10 year drought in Ethiopia

11. A representative to the annual UN World Conference on Women

12. An environmentalist from Brazil

13. A businesswoman in Namora, Peru

14. A citizen of Kashmir

15. A citizen of Namibia

16. A Palestinian refugee in Israel

Please find your group from last time March 26HW: Still no HW. Enjoy it while it lasts….Get a folder, name a paperclip fairy and continue gathering information on your group’s Point of View person (see below). Then choose ONE point of view from your team to represent to the group.

1. A public health official from Afghanistan

2. An Indian child with polio

3. A member of the Security Council from Kenya (non permanent member)

4. A survivor of the genocide in Bosnia

5. A representative in the General Assembly from Rwanda

6. An official in the Department of Forestry in Turkey

7. A doctor who works with impoverished countries

8. A citizen of South Korea

9. A citizen of Iraq

10. The mayor of a town hit by a 10 year drought in Ethiopia

11. A representative to the annual UN World Conference on Women

12. An environmentalist from Brazil

13. A businesswoman in Namora, Peru

14. A citizen of Kashmir

15. A citizen of Namibia

16. A Palestinian refugee in Israel

Now consider even further…Consider the Job of the UN:

The Aims of the United Nations: A. To keep peace throughout the world. B. To develop friendly relations between nations. C. To work together to help people live better lives, to eliminate poverty,

disease and illiteracy in the world, to stop environmental destruction and to encourage respect for each other's rights and freedoms.

D. To be a center for helping nations achieve these aims.

• Now consider what you have recorded. Write the letter of the UN Aim next to each action that matches it.

• For example: Curing a child of polio = Working together to help people with disease = C, so you would put C next to that entry in your notes

• What do you discover?

• Look at all your data and consider what your Point Of View Person would think the answer to this question is.

• Get a mini white board and write out your Point of View Person’s answer and the evidence you have to support it.

• Choose someone to share your team answer with the class.

Is the UN successfully doing its job?

Share out…• Now consider all the answers we have

here…. (whiteboards at the front of the room…)

• Come to a consensus in your team about whether the UN is doing its job successfully OVERALL.

• On a piece of paper with all your names on it, as a group, write a one paragraph answer to this question with a clear thesis and supporting evidence.

What should be in your paragraph?

• Restate the question “Is the UN doing a good job?” in an answer. This is your thesis statement.

• Make sure you say what the Job of the UN is.

• Now provide evidence that the UN is or in Not doing that job.

• Explain your evidence.