Lost+Boys+of+Sudan

Lost Boys of Sudan

Preview Vocabulary
Students will apply the LINCS Strategy to vocabulary words as a classroom assignment and/or homework assignment.
 * emigrate
 * immigrate
 * migration streams
 * pull factors
 * push factors

How did the Lost Boys get their name?
====They got their name from Peter Pan's Lost Boys-charcters in J.M.Barrie novel Peter Pan who formed a family and took care of each other in Never-Never Land. The Lost Boys of Sudan are a group of over 25,000 young Dinka men who ran away from civil war. They young men trekked across sub-Saharan Africa in search of safety, and eventually found homes in the United States. Relief workers called the the "Lost Boys" afterthe characters in Peter Pan. They are now known to the world as the Lost Boys.====

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Who are the Lost Boys and what did they experience?

 * ====Students will watch an excerpt from //God Grew Tired of Us.// Students should take notes.Ask students to write a brief summary describing who the Lost Boys are and what they experienced. Students’ summaries should include:====
 * why the Lost Boys had to flee Sudan
 * reasons they could not stay in Ethiopia
 * what life was like in the refugee camp
 * what new things the Lost Boys experienced on the journey from Kenya to the U.S.

Mapping the Migration Journey of the Lost Boys

 * ====What routes did the Lost Boys take on their migration journey from Sudan to the Untied States?====
 * ====What were the physical challenges of those routes?====

Materials:

 * Outlined maps of Sudan, Africa, the world and the United States

List each route on the board
=Push and Pull Factors =
 * Dinka homelands in southern Sudan to refugee camps in western Ethiopia
 * refugee camps in western Ethiopia, across the border into Sudan, and to Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya
 * Kakuma, Kenya to Nairobi, Kenya
 * Nairobi, Kenya to Brussels, Belgium
 * Brussels, Belgium to New York City
 * New York to the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington

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