Grab SS Notebook, start new Unit Page called: Genocide. Table of Contents

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1. Grab SS Notebook, start new Unit Page called: Genocide.

1. Table of Contents

2. Vocabulary Page: Leave at least 2 full pages.

3. Be ready to take a lot of notes!

2. Reflect on these:• What does ‘genocide’ mean?

• Besides the Holocaust during World War II, list as many acts of genocide that have occurred over the past 100 years.

Essential Questions

• How do you stop a bully?

• Why does history repeat itself?

Where does the word genocide come from?

geno-cideGeno- from the

Greek word Genos, which means birth, race of a similar kind, tribe, family

Cide- from the Latin word Cida, which means to kill.

Definition: the deliberate and/or systematic destruction of a racial, national, political, ethnic, or cultural group.

What is Genocide?“Genocide is…both the gravest and greatest of the crimes against

humanity.” –Alan Destexhe

The United Nations In article two, genocide is defined as: any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such:

A) killing members of the group;B) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to the members of the group;C) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,D) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;E) Forcibly transferring children on the group to another group.

Genocidal Acts of the Twentieth & Twenty-First Centuries

What vocabulary do we need to speak the language of genocide?

Make a list of words you think you will need to

know for this unit

EXAMPLES

vs

NON-EXAMPLES

The Treatment and Killing of Six Million

Jewish People at Nazi Extermination Camps

Mass Killings of Armenians by

Ottoman Turks

Rwanda, Estimated 800,000 Tutsi’s and

moderate Hutus Targeted, Raped, and

Massacred

Lynching of Africans

Americans in the United States

Systematic targeting of

ethnic groups in Darfur

Giving blankets infected with Small Pox to Native Americans,

which devastated their population.

The Columbine Shootings in

Colorado

American casualties during the Vietnam War

Japanese Internment during WWII

A child playing with his toys in his

backyard dies from a stray bullet from a gang member.

Bullying in the hallway at school

Treatment of Detainees at

Guantanamo Bay in Cuba

You get grounded by your parents

for dating someone of

another race.

Terrorist Randomly Hijack

Your Plane

You get robbed by knife walking

to your car

Sterilization of homeless, orphans, the blind, the

deaf and those who scored poorly on IQ tests, under the newly adopted sterilization laws in the

1920’s in the US.

913 Americans committed mass suicide at a

communal village known as “Jonestown.” The dead were apart of a group called “The People’s

Temple.”

Eighteen people died in a trailer carrying 100 illegal men, women, and children

across the border.

Thousands of Native American children were sent far from their homes to live

in boarding schools and learn the ways of white

culture to become “civilized.”

Question?

What makes it an act of

‘genocide’?

Video CLIp

• Worse Than War by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Final thought…. 

How do you think you can make a difference in helping

someone you have never met, will

never meet, from a country you know nothing about, from

being systematically killedin an act of genocide?

Or think of it this way What would you ask

from the world if people were trying to kill

you for just being you?

Homework

1. Respond to final thought question.

2. Answer “Connections” questions from Worse Than War clip

3. Vocabulary definitions