McDougal Littell, 
Modern World History
Chapters
18/19/20/Epilogue: 
Pages 504-509, 
512-525, 531-535, 
538-540, 544-545, 
548, 551-570, 
572-581, 584-585, 
589, 595-609

Mathabane, Mark, 
Kaffir Boy

Speeches and writings of: 
Mandela, Mao tse-tung, 
Tutu,

20th century documents: 
www.yale.edu/
lawweb/avalon/20th.htm

African Studies Center 
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/
African_Studies/AS.html

Beginner's Guide to Balkans       www.abcnews.go.com/
sections/world/balkans_
content/

Bosnia 
http://geog.gmu.edu/
projects/bosnia/default.html

CIA World Factbook   http://www.odci.gov/
cia/publications/factbook/

Latin America Network Info 
http://lanic.utexas.edu/

Visions of China   http://cnn.com/
SPECIALS/1999/
china.50/

AT 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80
CT 34, 35, 36, 70, 71
GT 34, 36, 44, 45

Alayam (Daily Newspaper of Bahrain)
http://www.alayam.com/
Description: Read an Arab perspective on Middle East events from Bahrain, a country of that region.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Arab.Net
http://www.arab.net/
Description: This site links to online resources related to the Arab world, organized with an Arab viewpoint. It includes links to news of interest, Arab countries and a set of files on the geography, history and culture of the countries.
Comments: Use this site to begin a general study of the Arab Middle East by browsing the links.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: Low
 

CIA World Factbook: Egypt
http://www.odci.gov/
cia/publications/
factbook/eg.html
Description: This site has current and historical information on Egypt provided by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. It gives social, political, geographic, cultural and other basic reference information including a map. 
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

African Studies WWW-Multimedia
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/
African_Studies/Home_
Page/GIF_Images.html
Description: This is a site with many pictures of African art, city maps, flags, wildlife and more.

Resource Type: Photos or Pictures
Graphics Content: High
 

African Art Project Online
http://www.uiowa.edu/
~africart/toc/index.html
Description: This is a site that combines art, information about people, history, economics, maps, etc.

Resource Type: Other
Graphics Content: High
 

African Stories
http://www.umich.edu/
~aaps/africa_stories/
Description: This site, developed by Huron High School students, retells African stories from ancient and modern times. The site also offers an opportunty for students to e-mail their responses to these stories.
Comments: This is a model for the type of student project other schools could do.
Resource Type: Literature/Story
Graphics Content: High
 

South American Expedition 
http://www.globalearn.com/
expeditions/sae.html
Description: Golbalearn led this project down the west coast of South America in 1998. K-12 students had the opportunity to explore the cultural and environmental diversity of the western regions of South America. This archived site still has interesting material for the study of South American geography, modern nations and ancient cultures.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Accion Zapatista
http://www.utexas.edu/
students/nave/
Description: Accion Zapatista gathers and redistributes information about the Zapatistas and the struggle for democracy in Mexico. Includes the communiques of the rebels, plus related resources on the issues. Some information a bit old, but useful.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Argentina (From the Institute of Latin American Studies)
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
la/argentina/
Description: A collection of links to data about the country of Argentina. Grouped into broad categories: economy, government, news, science and technology, travel, and other resources. Good place to browse for information about Argentina.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: High
 

Visions of China
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/
1999/china.50/flash.html
Description: This CNN web site takes a close look at the People's Republic of China at fifty. Excellent graphics and an easy to use site map makes it possible to find information on China's past, present and future expectations. Excellent articles inculde the controversy about the Three Gorges Dam project, Chinese-U.S. Relations, and inventions of dynastic China.
Comments: The introduction has excellent graphics, but it is time consuming. You can bypass it by clicking on the icon.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

China the Beautiful - Chinese Art and Literature
http://www.chinapage.com/
Description: This is a homepage for 5,000 years of Chinese cultural heritage - a tiny bit of it anyway. The China Room is like visiting the Chinese gallery in an art museum.
Comments: Award winning site.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

China-Council on East Asian Libraries
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/
~felsing/cstuff/cshelf.html
Description: Here is an excellent source for all kinds of topics having to do with Chinese culture in the modern day. There are links to other Asian countries
Comments: Hosted by the University of Oregon. Very strong research tool.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High

Internet Activity at the Score
World History Site
http://score.rims.k12.ca.
us/activity/world_history_fair/

Students will be assigned to teams representing different nations and will research and display contributions of that nation in either electronic multimedia pavilions, web based exposition halls or poster presentations. As an official participant teams are required to include the following themes in their countries' pavilion or poster:  honor the past, discover the challenge, imagine the future.

Individual Research Brief:

Students will select one of the developing countries and write a position brief which be used by the President before meeting that country's head of state.  The
paper must include the following:  brief history, cultural traditions, resources,
important officials, trade, problems at home, nations with which allied, and
prospects for the future.  The paper should be brief:  about 3 pages.

World History Fair and Exposition
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/world_history_fair/
The year 2000 holds enormous significance for humankind. All over the world nations and communities are planning significant millennium activities. The United States will be spotlighting a series of White House millennium projects which celebrate freedom and democracy. We will be sharing our celebration with the world's nations and citizens at the World's Fair, Expo 2000, which will be held in Hanover Germany. The President invites your country to link with us and over 143 nations by participating in Expo 2000. Focusing on the theme of "honoring the past and imagining the future" the United States invites you to develop a virtual electronic pavilion or poster presentation which will outline your countries' recent past, discuss your democratic initiatives, and analyze the challenges ahead of you. 
Author: Cheryl Davis
 

A Kingship Rested in Peace: King Hussein
http://www.nytimes.com/
learning/teachers/
lessons/990208
monday.html
Assess, through discussion and research, the impact of King Hussein of Jordan on the Middle East, the peace process, and United States foreign relations. Small groups focus on the five decades of King HusseinÕs rule, creating a timeline of his reign and of the subsequent steps taken towards peace in the Middle East and worldwide. 
Author: Alison Zimbalist, The New York Times Learning Network
 

Blocking Trade, or Blocking Aid? Exploring U.S. Intervention in Iraq 
http://www.nytimes.com/
learning/teachers/
lessons/990113
wednesday.html
Examine various foreign conflicts in which the United States intervened, focusing on the causes of the conflicts, the United StatesÕjustification for entering the conflicts, and the outcomes of these interventions. Students work in small groups to research and present one such foreign conflict and, in round-table discussion format, compare and contrast these conflicts to each other and to the United StatesÕ current military actions against and support for economic sanctions against Iraq. 
Author: Alison Zimbalist, The New York Times Learning Network
 

Give and Take: Negotiating a Peaceful Trade Agreement in Gaza
http://www.nytimes.com/
learning/teachers/
lessons/981014
wednesday.html
The Eastsiders and the Westsiders represent different communities that share a border. They have a deep mistrust of each other and have a history of attempting to expand their borders, leading to frequent wars and other conflicts. Now these old enemies are trying to negotiate an agreement based on economic needs. Do this activity after reading an online version of a New York Times article "In Gaza, A Prototype of Peace Via Trade."
Author: Carolyn Stein and Lorin Diggs
 

The Museum Project
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/museumproj/
Working in teams by region, you will create a Museum of African Art. Find art on the web and organize an exhibit for others to see and learn. Each object must be annotated as to its origin and significance so the museum so that visitors will come to understand more about African culture.
Author: Carrie Zinn
 
 

Project Helping Hands
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/prjhelp.html
In this problem based activity students develop a program through a nonprofit organization "Africare" to improve the quality of life in rural Africa by improving health care, growing more food, and developing water resources while still protecting the environment 
Author: Leanne Westphal
 

Deep in the Bush, Where People Rarely Go
http://members.xoom.com/
PMartin/Bush/
bushhomepage.htm
Former Peace Corps volunteer in west Africa, Phillip Martin has found that t is hard to get rid of preconceived stereotypes about Africa It was just as surprising to my friends in America that I saw no lions in West Africa as it was to my Liberian friends that I'd never seen a policeman shoot a criminal on the streets of America. These kinds of misconceptions can be clarified with the activities in this lesson which draw from West African folk tales. This lesson has multiple activities that address the curriculum for several grades and appeal to a wide grade range of students. 
Author: Phillip Martin
 

Latin America Marketing Project
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/latinmarketing/
You are part of a team of marketing experts that has been hired by a major American fast food company to study the feasibility of selling their product in Latin America. Each marketing team will to investigate a different product and Latin American country. Your group will then make an oral presentation to the C.E.O. and recommend whether your company should enter the Latin American market. 
Author: Madeline Antilla and J. DeMonet
 

World History Fair and Exposition
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/world_history_fair/
The year 2000 holds enormous significance for humankind. All over the world nations and communities are planning significant millennium activities. The United States will be spotlighting a series of White House millennium projects which celebrate freedom and democracy. We will be sharing our celebration with the world's nations and citizens at the World's Fair, Expo 2000, which will be held in Hanover Germany. The President invites your country to link with us and over 143 nations by participating in Expo 2000. Focusing on the theme of "honoring the past and imagining the future" the United States invites you to develop a virtual electronic pavilion or poster presentation which will outline your countries' recent past, discuss your democratic initiatives, and analyze the challenges ahead of you. 
Author: Cheryl Davis
 

Investigating U.S.- Cuba Relations and Policy Changes
http://www.nytimes.com/
learning/teachers/lessons/
990106wednesday.html
Explore past U.S.-Cuban relations, by researching various key events and people in the past century and creating a class timeline, in order to evaluate recently-eased restrictions in policy on Cuba and the potential exhibition baseball games between the Baltimore Orioles and the Cuban national team. 
Author: Alison Zimbalist, The New York Times Learning Network
 

What's Next for China and the U.S.?
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/china/index.html
You have been contacted by the president of the US and he would like you to give him some advice regarding a country he knows very little about. The president is aware that China is going through a great deal of change - both economic (toward capitalism) and political (the addition of Hong Kong and a change of leadership). He also knows there are factions within China that are incredibly resistant to change. An example of this resistance occurred during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s. The President would like you to study this key event and any others you feel are relevant and to prepare a report detailing your view of the effect these changes will have on China and a prediction of how the government will react. Will they reverse their current policies or continue to relax controls?
Author: W.J. Davis
 

Tibet Question
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/tibet_question/
To the Chinese, the international furor over Tibet parallels Western intrigues in Chinese affairs dating back to the 19th Century Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, U.S. support of the Nationalist Chinese during the Chinese Civil War, the Great Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square. On the other hand, Westerners, spurred by efforts of the Tibetan exile community and Hollywood feature films like "Seven Years in Tibet" and "Kundun", tend to quickly assume that the Chinese are at fault. The true story about Tibet lies somewhere in between. An international news agency is doing a special on "The Tibet Question". They will be interviewing members of the Tibetan groups, Chinese and US government officials, representatives of human rights organizations and Chinese scholars. You will be assigned to one of these groups in preparation for this news special. 
Author: Mark LaPorte
 

World History Fair and Exposition
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/world_history_fair/
The year 2000 holds enormous significance for humankind. All over the world nations and communities are planning significant millennium activities. The United States will be spotlighting a series of White House millennium projects which celebrate freedom and democracy. We will be sharing our celebration with the world's nations and citizens at the World's Fair, Expo 2000, which will be held in Hanover Germany. The President invites your country to link with us and over 143 nations by participating in Expo 2000. Focusing on the theme of "honoring the past and imagining the future" the United States invites you to develop a virtual electronic pavilion or poster presentation which will outline your countries' recent past, discuss your democratic initiatives, and analyze the challenges ahead of you. 
Author: Cheryl Davis

Students will be graded on their oral presentations and use of media in developing the presentation

Students will be graded on the recommendations made in their paper for aid and trade considerations with the U.S.