Webquest

Monroe Academy for Visual Arts and Design

Genocide in Africa

Ms. Walker

Introduction:

Hitler killed 6 million people during World War II (1939-1945). He targeted Jews, gypsies and basically anyone that was not from the Aryan race. Hitler wanted to exterminate anyone that did not belong to this particular race, even though it is speculated that he was a Jew himself. The deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group is called genocide. The genocide that happened during World War II is known as the Holocaust.

After so many innocent people were killed the world swore never to allow a person or group to commit genocide for a second time. In fact, the world said “never again”. Well, guess what? Genocide has occurred again.

Actually two major genocides have happened in Africa in the last 10 years. In 1994 in just two months, 800,000 people from the Tutsi tribe were killed in Rwanda, Africa by the Hutu tribe. Would you believe today there is a genocide happening right now in the Sudan in Africa? Two million black people have been killed and four million driven from their homes by the Arabian militia groups backed by the government.

What happened to the world saying “never again” to genocide? Did you ever wonder what kind of people would kill innocent people just because of their skin color? Why do these people feel so much hate? This is a difficult subject to talk about but very important for people to be aware of.

Your job is to find out what motivated these people to commit such horrible atrocities. You will pretend to be an investigative reporter from Amnesty International (a human rights group) trying to uncover the truth about the how these unthinkable acts of brutality happened to innocent people. It is your responsibility to tell the world the truth about what really happened in Africa.

Step 1: Your first mission is to choose from the 2 events:

the genocide in Rwanda OR the genocide in the Sudan.

You must research EITHER event using the Internet and any additional materials you find. You will probably not find any information in the textbook since these events are so recent. In addition, you must use the Global History Public Policy format (discussed in class) and the worksheets to guide you through your research. This is a very important part of your grade so you must follow the guidelines specifically.

Step 2: Your final duty is to write a 5 paragraph newspaper article about your findings. You must include information you gathered in your research. You must cite GHPPA: Introduction 10 resources, either from the Internet or any additional materials.

· You will use the Global History Public Policy Analyst as the basis for your investigation.

· You will complete the four worksheets linked below. The worksheets are part of the GLOBAL HISTORY PUBLIC POLICY ANALYST. This web site will guide you in gathering facts on historical public policy issues and their resulting social problem. Please read each web page carefully before completing your worksheets. These worksheets will be used as resource material in completing your task. You are responsible for their completion.

1) Define the problem (what is causing the one group committing genocide to hate the other group and want to exterminate them?) using Worksheet #1

2) Gather evidence of the problem (use the Internet to gather evidence that a genocide actually occurred.) using Worksheet#2

3) Determine the causes of the problem (what is causing the racial tensions and prejudice between groups? Is there anything that happened in the past that is relevant?) using Worksheet#3

4) Evaluate the policy (What did the government do or fail to do to prevent the genocide from happening? Was the government part of the problem? How?) Using Worksheet#4

5) Do a comparative analysis (How are the genocides committed today in the recent past similar or different from the Holocaust?) using Worksheet#5

Helpful Questions to ask During your Research:

· Where are Rwanda and the Sudan located in Africa?

· What is the population for each country?

· What different ethnic groups make up the population?

· What language/s do they speak there?

· What were the motives for the ones committing genocide? What have been the social consequences of genocide in these countries? (psychological, physical and economical)

· How have these genocides affected the family structure in Rwanda and Sudan?

· How does genocide displace people?

· What actions did the Rwandan and Sudanese governments take to protect their people if any?

· What actions did the international community take to prevent the genocide? Explain.

· How did the governments perpetuate the genocides?

For Rwanda:

· Human Rights Watch: Africa : Rwanda 

· RWANDA - Amnesty International

· BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Rwanda: How the genocide happened

· Gendercide Watch: Rwanda

· Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda (Human Rights Watch Report, March 1999)

· frontline: the triumph of evilfrontline: the triumph of evil

· The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: Evidence of Inaction

· Reflections on the Genocide in Rwanda

· http://www.teachgenocide.org/pictures/genocides/rwandan_gen.jpg

For the Sudan:

· SUDAN - Amnesty International

· Darfur in Flames: Atrocities in Western Sudan (Human Rights Watch Report, April 2004)

· War and Genocide in the Sudan

· Africa's Future - Sudan - Genocide

· Sudan: The Passion of the Present

· http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/powell_sudan

· BBC NEWS | In Depth | 2004 | Sudan

· "Genocide" in the Sudan

General:

· Never Again

· Google

· Yahoo!

· Prevent Genocide International

· http://www.genocidewatch.org

· Genocide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Report Rubric

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4	Score
Topic	Totally unrelated	Remotely related	Somewhat relevant	Directly relevant
Organization	Not organized, events make no sense	Some organization, events jump around, start and end are unclear	Organized, events are somewhat jumpy	Good organization, events are logically ordered, sharp sense of beginning and end
Quality of Information	Unable to find specific details	Details are somewhat sketchy	Some details are non-supporting to the subject	supporting details specific to subject
Grammar & Spelling	Very frequent grammar and/or spelling errors	More than two errors	Only one or two errors	All grammar and spelling are correct
Interest Level	Needs descriptive words	Vocabulary is constant, details lack "color"	Vocabulary is varied, supporting details need work	Vocabulary varied, supporting details vivid
Neatness	Illegible writing, loose pages	Legible writing, some ill-formed letters, print too small or too large, papers stapled together	Legible writing, well-formed characters, clean and neatly bound in a report cover, illustrations provided	Word processed or typed, clean and neatly bound in a report cover, illustrations provided
Timeliness	Report handed in more than one week late	Up to one week late	Up to two days late	Report handed in on time
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