Thank you SILC Community!

As I finish my last year of teaching Social Studies 3 at SILC, I want to sincerely thank everyone who is a member of the SILC community for helping me succeed in the classroom for two years. I will dearly miss the students and faculty of SILC as I enter college and employ the knowledge I have acquired through SILC in the larger world.

Additionally, if ANYBODY wishes to have a copy of the Social Studies 3 four part curriculum, please email me at keshavkohli@gmail.com

Thank you,

Keshav Kohli

Lesson Outline: Unit 4

Title: The Post-American World and India's Post-colonial Identity
Date: 29 March 2010
Creator: Keshav Kohli
Subject: Social Studies level 3

Activities and lesson notes: This unit offers both a rigorous introduction to the theory of post-colonialism and a study of the shifting global economy, thereby investigating and reflecting upon the "rise of the rest (third world)" and India's role in the new global order. In effect, students will discuss and apply the following terms in class: Westernization, outsourcing, parlimentary democracy, imagined community (Benedict Anderson), cultural nationalism, multi-polarity, and the BRIICS acronym as proposed by Goldman Sachs. Through classroom demonstrations, discussion of historiographical texts, and engaging discussion, students will begin to expand their innate worldview and explore modern India.

Sources (websites, books used, etc.): To name a few:·
· India A History by John Keay
· The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
· The West and the Third World by Fieldhouse
· http://www.wikipedia.com/
· The World’s History Volume II by Howard Spodek
· Various internet sources for images

Materials needed (markers, scissors, etc): Kohli Bucks (artificial paper money given to students on occasion, allowing them to “purchase” treats—namely candy—in class)

Mid-Year Project

Our video project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzHfAbgaU8

Description: Students assume the roles of prominent Indian leaders and historical figures to cooperatively deconstruct some of India's most pertinent overarching issues. Specifically, students--or rather, their characters--grapple with the following concepts: Hindu-Muslim unity, the two-nation theory, economic self-sufficiency, and classism.

For more information, visit the class blog at: www.s1.zetaboards.com/social_studies_3

A special thanks both to the SILC volunteers for organizing the event and to the teachers for making the SILC experience brighter for all students.