Goals and Objectives
SWBAT: Identify the Armenian Genocide and its causes as well as subsequent genocides and their locations throughout the world. Students will show their knowledge of the topic by using map identification and through their group presentation.
Vocabulary:
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Lesson Introduction:
Teacher will establish that there have been several genocidal
catastrophes in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The teacher will ask the students if
subsequent history might have been different if the world had been aware of the
plight of the Armenians. Ask students how the Nazi holocaust might have been
affected by knowledge of the Armenian tragedy. What might have been different?
What might have been the same?
Content Delivery:
Day 1:
- Teacher will show students the Genocide Support Document “Summary of Seven Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Genocides.” Divide the class into seven small groups.
- Teacher will present the Genocide Support Document as a point of departure, have each small group research one genocide and present a summary of it. Each group should plan and share research on its assigned event.
- Teacher will inform students to be aware of biased information that is both in print and on the internet.
- Teacher will have the students answer what message their summary of the event has for contemporary times. What message for future times? How could this genocide have been prevented from happening again? What can you and I do to prevent this sort of tragedy from happening in our times? Ask the rhetorical question: “At what point do you and I become members of the world community and stand up to speak?”
- Teacher will have the students create a graphic organizer contrasting the historical features, numbers of casualties, and motives of the perpetrators for each of the seven genocides.
- Teacher will divide the class into two groups and place a two chairs in the center of the room, back to back. The students will be instructed to discuss the topic provided by the teacher, once they have said something about the topic they will tap one of their teammates to take their spot in the chair and continue on with the conversation.
- Teacher will start the discussion with the statement: “The First World War ushered in the Armenian holocaust. Similar atrocities have been repeated throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These acts are well chronicled.” The teacher will then turn the discussion over to the class
Student Engagement:
Day 1:
- Students will research their assigned genocide, using all available resources (internet, textbook, cell phone, music), and will teach out what they have learned in a short presentation. Students will answer the following questions while researching their topic:
- What message does summary of the event have for contemporary times.
- What message for future times?
- How could this genocide have been prevented from happening again?
- What can you and I do to prevent this sort of tragedy from happening in our times?
- Ask the rhetorical question: “At what point do you and I become members of the world community and stand up to speak?”
- Students will show, on a regional or world map, the location of the topic of their study. They will also answer “What other facts can you add?” and “What other events would you add to this tragic chronicle?”
- Finally, each small group weigh its findings against the statement of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
- Make a graphic organizer contrasting the historical features, numbers of casualties, and motives of the perpetrators for each of the seven genocides.
- Tag Team Discussion
Demonstrated Learning:
- Make a graphic organizer contrasting the historical features, numbers of casualties, and motives of the perpetrators for each of the seven genocides.
- Students will participate in a Tag Team Discussion
Lesson Closure:
Students will complete a Ticket out the Door describing genocide and what should be done to those who perpetrate genocide Also, what can be done to prevent another one from happening.