Read more about the thousands of immigrants headed towards the USA and why here:
Good Health and Well-Being
Sustainable Goal nr. 3: Good Health and Well-Being, is the last of the UN Sustainable Development Goals we will work in-depth with, at least for now.
This goal was one of the most cited ones in August, when you were to choose which goals you found most important.
Start by reading up – what is the actual goal about and what are they focusing on? You will find all this here.
So how is it going? Will we be able to reach this goal by 2030? The latest progress report from the UN is short and informative. In some areas things are going the right way, in others not so much.
Some diseases and epidemics are still causing a lot of problems, such as HIV/AIDS – especially for women in sub-Saharan Africa, Malaria, Ebola – with recent new outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Also, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer and air pollution are huge problems and each cause millions of death every year.
Write a blog post including the following:
- After reading the two texts about Goal. 3, linked to here – what do you think are the biggest challenges yet to solve in order for this goal to be reached? Explain your answer.
- Use WHO’s website or other relevant pages you find and look at emergencies. Choose either an area or a disease and do some research – what is going on here? What emergency is being caused by this disease, or what medical emergencies are going on in the area you chose? Read up, and then explain in your own words. Include what is being done, and look up other sources as well to see if you can find more supporting evidence.
- Reflect: based on your new knowledge about a disease, or an area in medical emergency – what would you say is being done to reach goal 3? What would you say is NOT being done, but should be done? Can you think of any challenges that could hinder progress for this goal? Which and why? Can you think of any solutions for these challenges?
Hanna
In the news: Hunger increasing due to climate change
Hunger increasing due to climate change, according to a UN report.
It found that 821 million people — one in every nine — were malnourished in 2017, up from 815 million in 2016, putting at risk the UN’s goal of eradicating hunger in the world by 2030.
Hanna
Fagdag October 5th
Topic: The Global Goals
In groups of three, choose one of the UN Goals which we have not already worked with (so avoid goal 1-5).
Make sure your group choose a goal no one else has chosen.
Plan and make an oral presentation where you include the following:
- what is the problem?
- what/who is causing this problem and/or preventing a solution?
- What can be done to improve the situation?
- Who is working for improvement? (organizations etc)
- why is this relevant for the UN?
- what is the group’s personal opinion of this problem?
- what do your group think about a possible solution?
- What can a single individual do to help?
Your presentation should be about 10 minutes long, and you should be ready to present at 12:00 today.
This will be graded individually.
Criteria for evaluation
| 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-6 | |
| Presentation
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Has a simple presentation, does not look at the audience, bound by script, no creativity | Has some contact with the audience, somewhat free from the script, uses some creativity in his/her presentation | Has good contact with the audience, knows the script by heart, creative and independent presentation |
| Content
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Simple content, has worked very little with different sources, shows little independent thought and research. Answers only some of the assignment given. | Good content with some independent research, has clearly worked with different sources. Answers the assignment. | Independent and well-researched content, and a thorough answer of the assignment. Explains and gives examples. Has worked well with different sources and manages to use them in an independent manner. |
| Pronunciation | Has a clear Norwegian accent, struggles with pronouncing a lot of words
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Has a good pronunciation overall, struggles with some words. | Pronunciation and accent are close to, or, flawless |
| Vocabulary
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Has a simple vocabulary, uses a lot of repetition and little variation. | Has a broad vocabulary, with some more advanced words. Shows that he/she understands the words they use. | Has an advanced and varied vocabulary, varies in sentence structure and length. Understands and are able to use and explain difficult concepts and definitions. |
Groups:
Hamza, Johanne Marie, Johann
Linnéa, William, Jessica
Marius, Sandra, Jannis
Yasmin, Christina, Martine
Karethe, Liban, Emilie
In the news: Erna Solberg speaks to UN General Assembly
She mentioned the importance of girls’ education and spoke about other sustainable development goals, such as Life below Water and the huge amount of plastics found in our oceans. She also spoke about Norway’s candidacy for a seat in the UN Security Council.
Listen to the whole speech/read the transcript here:
“The extremists have shown what frightens them the most – a girl with a book”
Yesterday, this article was posted in the New York Times. It relates directly to the topics we are working with, quality education and gender equality. It is about an incident in Pakistan where 14 schools, most of them for girls, where burned down during one night, in a district where only 11% of the girls know how to read and write.
Hanna
Girl Rising
“One girl with courage is a revolution”
As an introduction to the topic Global Challenges you are going to watch the film Girl Rising.
Girl Rising is a film about the benefits of educating girls. It introduces nine girls from around the world in their struggle to get an education and achieve their dreams.
The film was released in 2013 and is part of the Girl Rising campaign.
As we watch the film, take notes, as you are to to discuss the film in your groups afterwards. Also, note down all the global challenges that are dealt with in the film and see if you can group them together in a logical order.
Discussion questions:
- Which girls’ stories made the greatest impression on you? Why?
- “One girl with courage is a revolution”. After watching the film, what does that phrase imply – do you agree or can you think of a better catchphrase?
- Girl Rising is neither pure journalism, nor fiction. The filmmakers have tried to go beyond the facts into the human experience. Did you find yourself getting lost in the stories in a way that was interesting or effective? Why or why not?
- The girls of Girl Rising live in very difficult circumstances. Yet they do not consider themselves as victims. Are you able, through the storytelling, to relate to their lives in a way that lets you empathize rather than sympathize? Why or why not?
- What are the messages from the film that you think will resonate most strongly with people who are not already familiar with this issue?
Ingunn and Hanna
The Power of Film
A film has the power to inform, influence and impress on its audience a certain message. Convey knowledge, broaden our perspective and in some cases make us take action.
We have watched two films in class, Girl Rising (2013, directed by Richard Robbins) and Before the Flood (2016, directed by Fisher Stevens), which clearly want us to take action. Would you recommend one or both of these films to anyone? If so, to whom and why? If not, why?
Do you know of another film that you would highly recommend people watching, and if so, why?
Write a blog post in which you discuss how a film can create an impact on people and society. Use at least two films as examples, at least one of which should be one we have seen in class. Comment on target audience as well as topic and / or narration, depending on what you find is the main goals of the films.
Hilde
In the news: Watergrabbing
Read about the practice of watergrabbing and how it affects people in Palestine and other areas here:
http://watergrabbing.com/palestine.html
Also take a look at this video from Al-Jazeera: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/473735126457245/UzpfSTE4MjA4MDU4NTE3MjY4NzoxOTA1MTQzMjA2MTk5NzQx/
Quality Education and Gender Equality
As agreed from your last blog posts, we will start working with the global goals of quality education and gender equality. These two goals are often intertwined, which is why I put them together.
Start with reading about the goals here and here.
Write a summary in your own words about what you learn from the two different sites. What is the actual problem? Why is Quality Education and Gender Equality so important that they take up two of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals?
And how are these two goals, 4 and 5, so intertwined? Explain and discuss.
Also include how you would like to work with these goals. Post this on your blog.
When you finish, read the short story “Chinasa” by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adicie. You will find the story on It’s Learning and get it as a handout. Note down difficult words and look them up. Comment on how, if at all, this short story relates to UN Goals 4 and 5.
Hanna & Ingunn
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