Child Soldiers in

Africa
Teach-For-A-Day 2015
Savannah Moe, Bethanee Tovar,
Sydney McAfee, Justin Rusthoven,
Ethan Hall
Can YOU find Sierra Leone?
Sierra Leone History
-1961 Sierra Leone gains independence
-May 1967 All Peoples Congress wins parliament giving more power to the people
-March 1991 The Revolutionary United Front began attacks on eastern Sierra Leone.
Why use kids?
-Sierra Leone is the lowest ranked country on the Human Development Index.

-Life expectancy was 36.55 in 1991

-Fertility rates are 5 children per mother

-18% of population was 14-24 years old

Who controlled 1991 Sierra Leone?
-There were 4 coups just between 1992 and 1996.
-Constitution was just amended making all political parties other than APC
illegal

*Coup-a sudden violent and illegal seizure of power from a government

Pronounced Koo
Literary Terms
Diction: word choice (ORANGE)

Tone:the perspective or attitude that the author

portrays towards a subject.(GREEN)

Point of View: angle and perception that the

story is told from.(PINK)
Literary Analysis
Junior taught us to move our feet to the beat. We alternately moved our right
and then our left feet to the front and back, and simultaneously did the same
with our arm shaking our upper bodies and heads.We loaded our backpacks
with notebooks of lyrics we were working on and stuffed our pockets with
cassettes of rap...They were fashionable and we had no idea that this unusual
way of dressing was going to benefit us (Beah,7.)

The sun peacefully sailed through the white clouds, birds sang from treetops,
the trees danced to the quiet wind. (Beah, 10)
Literary Analysis
In the forest there are men waiting to destroy all of our lives. We have fought
them as best we can, but there are too many of them. They are all around the
village The lieutenant made a circle in the air with his hands. They wont give
up until they capture this village. They want our food and ammunition. He
paused and slowly continued: Some of you are here because they have killed
your parents or families, others because it is a safe place to be. Well, it is not
that safe anymore. That is why we need strong men and boys to help us fight. If
you do not want to fight or help, that is fine. But you will not have rations and
you will not stay in this village. You are free to leave (Beah, 106).
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