Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution: 2013-2014
Introduction: This is an elective course designed to connect peace and conflict resolutions to the relevance of your everyday living. You are welcome to contact me if you need help with an assignment or preparation for a test. My cell phone number is 970-520-9084. I have a plan period during first (first semester only), sixth hour and eighth hour (after junior high football is over). Also, feel free to e-mail me at [email protected]
Accommodations: Please notify me as soon as possible if you have any accommodations you need me to be aware of. I have copies of I.E.P.’s and 504 plans; however, if you have any undocumented accommodations I need to know. This could include seating arrangements and/or test conditions.
Grades: Grades will be divided into four categories: participation, weekly assignments, civil learning project, and the final.
Participation: You will earn this grade by going through the lessons and your willingness to participate in the daily classroom activities. This is worth 10 points per day. If you are absent, you are expected to make up the reading or assignments of that particular day.
Weekly Assignments: Your learning will be assessed formatively in each section through voice threads, blogs, and other multiliteracy media. These formative assessments will accompany most lessons, and these assignments will be worth 10 points each.
Final: This you will take at the end of the semester, and it will be worth 200 points.
Civil Learning Project: Each student will complete one civil learning project. You will be given some class time to work on them. However, if the time given is not utilized by a large majority of the class, that time can be taken away, and you will need to work on it during your own time.
Course Website: The URL for our course is: http://flemingpeace.weebly.com/ . You should be able to access each lesson and assignment through this website.
Tentative Schedule
Week 1: Introduction/Getting Stated. Ask students to define peace.
Week 2: Defining non-violence. What is it? How long has it been around? How does it work? Reasons for nonviolence.
Week 3: Why does violence occur? Does it accomplish anything? What are the sources of conflict?
Week 4: History of nonviolence. Travel along a timeline that focuses on peace movements. When has peace worked? What has it accomplished? What resistance has there been to peace?
Week 5: Continue along timeline. Investigate individuals and groups that have been involved in peace.
Week 6: Conflict Studies-analyze different conflicts on each day of class. Ask for various solutions to the conflict and ask how they could have been better handled?
Week 7: Work on civil learning project click here
Week 8: Organizations that are currently involved in peace. What are the national implications of nonviolence?
Week 9: Civil learning project due. How do you get involved in nonviolence? Conflict Resolution introduction. How are nonviolence and conflict resolution different?
Week 10: Poverty as a form of violence
Week 11: Literacy as a form of violence
Week 12: The United Nations
Week 13: Conflict Studies-analyze different conflicts on each day of class. Ask for various solutions to the conflict and ask how they could have been better handled?
Week 14: The Ethics of War and Peace
Week 15: What does peace mean in the 21st century? What importance does it hold in our future?
Week 16: Finals/Wrap-up. Ask students to define peace again. Compare to original ideals
General Resource Website
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/pnvcur7-12/pnvcur7-12.html#id708567
Civil Learning Project Resource
http://www.workablepeace.org/curriculum.html
Introduction: This is an elective course designed to connect peace and conflict resolutions to the relevance of your everyday living. You are welcome to contact me if you need help with an assignment or preparation for a test. My cell phone number is 970-520-9084. I have a plan period during first (first semester only), sixth hour and eighth hour (after junior high football is over). Also, feel free to e-mail me at [email protected]
Accommodations: Please notify me as soon as possible if you have any accommodations you need me to be aware of. I have copies of I.E.P.’s and 504 plans; however, if you have any undocumented accommodations I need to know. This could include seating arrangements and/or test conditions.
Grades: Grades will be divided into four categories: participation, weekly assignments, civil learning project, and the final.
Participation: You will earn this grade by going through the lessons and your willingness to participate in the daily classroom activities. This is worth 10 points per day. If you are absent, you are expected to make up the reading or assignments of that particular day.
Weekly Assignments: Your learning will be assessed formatively in each section through voice threads, blogs, and other multiliteracy media. These formative assessments will accompany most lessons, and these assignments will be worth 10 points each.
Final: This you will take at the end of the semester, and it will be worth 200 points.
Civil Learning Project: Each student will complete one civil learning project. You will be given some class time to work on them. However, if the time given is not utilized by a large majority of the class, that time can be taken away, and you will need to work on it during your own time.
Course Website: The URL for our course is: http://flemingpeace.weebly.com/ . You should be able to access each lesson and assignment through this website.
Tentative Schedule
Week 1: Introduction/Getting Stated. Ask students to define peace.
Week 2: Defining non-violence. What is it? How long has it been around? How does it work? Reasons for nonviolence.
Week 3: Why does violence occur? Does it accomplish anything? What are the sources of conflict?
Week 4: History of nonviolence. Travel along a timeline that focuses on peace movements. When has peace worked? What has it accomplished? What resistance has there been to peace?
Week 5: Continue along timeline. Investigate individuals and groups that have been involved in peace.
Week 6: Conflict Studies-analyze different conflicts on each day of class. Ask for various solutions to the conflict and ask how they could have been better handled?
Week 7: Work on civil learning project click here
Week 8: Organizations that are currently involved in peace. What are the national implications of nonviolence?
Week 9: Civil learning project due. How do you get involved in nonviolence? Conflict Resolution introduction. How are nonviolence and conflict resolution different?
Week 10: Poverty as a form of violence
Week 11: Literacy as a form of violence
Week 12: The United Nations
Week 13: Conflict Studies-analyze different conflicts on each day of class. Ask for various solutions to the conflict and ask how they could have been better handled?
Week 14: The Ethics of War and Peace
Week 15: What does peace mean in the 21st century? What importance does it hold in our future?
Week 16: Finals/Wrap-up. Ask students to define peace again. Compare to original ideals
General Resource Website
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/pnvcur7-12/pnvcur7-12.html#id708567
Civil Learning Project Resource
http://www.workablepeace.org/curriculum.html