Civil+Wars+of+Today

How do people survive difficult situations?
 * UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTION:**

Helping students to achieve success in learning and in life.
 * VISION**

=**WHY WIKI THIS?**=

To create classes of independent critical readers who are able to analyze, infer, and evaluate text through thematic curriculum that is engaging, exploratory, and relevant to life in the 21st Century.
 * MISSION:**


 * CORE BELIEFS -** In order to accomplish this, our curriculum will:
 * Be organized in themes with cross curricular connections
 * Provide opportunities for self-guided vocabulary instruction
 * Encourage independent reading and accountability through reflections and meaningful conversations with others
 * Model and guide students in critical analyses of text using textual evidence to support analyses
 * Provide silent sustained reading time at school and encourage reading at home

In 8th grade social studies you will be studying events leading up to the Civil War between the North and South in the United States (pre-1860). In 8th grade Language Arts, you will be exploring civil wars found in today's world.
 * CIVIL WARS AROUND THE WORLD**

As you explore this wiki, you are asked to consider the following questions:
 * What **events and conditions** __caused__ the civil war in the country you researched?
 * __Examine__ the **events and conditions** of the country's civil war you researched.
 * __Analyze__ how the civil wars of today are **similar and different** to our Civil War back then?
 * How does the idea of **survival** __influence__ all civil wars?

__**AFGHANISTAN WAR (2001-present)**__
Wikipedia - War in Afghanistan (2001-present) VIDEO: Afghanistan - War without an End

__**WAR IN DARFUR (2003-present)**__
Wikipedia - War in Darfur VIDEO: Darfur in 10 Minutes: An Overview of the Conflict in Sudan

__**KENYAN CRISIS (2007-2008)**__
Wikipedia - 2007-08 Kenyan Crisis VIDEO: Kenya Crisis

__**RWANDA GENOCIDE (1994)**__
Wikipedia - Rwanda Genocide VIDEOS: PBS - Ghosts of Rwanda

__**SOMALIA CIVIL WAR (1991 - present)**__
Wikipedia - Somali Civil War VIDEO: Somalia - Famine, Civil War, Killing, Hunger, and Disease

Wikipedia - Syrian Uprising VIDEO: Inside Story - Syria's Civil War
 * __CIVIL WAR IN SYRIA (2011 - present)__**