Genocide Lesson 1

Predict What is genocide?

Geno – raceCide – killingGenocide – acts committed with

the intent to destroy in whole, or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. (This definition was created by the United Nations in 1948)

Definition

Will find one

Genocide Video clip

This room needs to be safe to discuss opinions

We will not make fun of others

We will NOT make fun of any people involved in the genocides we will discuss. This is very serious!!

Class Ground Rules during our genocide discussion

How does genocide happen??

Think-pair-share

Eliminate a real or potential threat. Fein calls this a “retributive” motivation for genocide. When one group is convinced that its existence is in jeopardy from another group, it may feel that they have no other choice but to destroy the competing group. This boils down to a “we have to get them before they get us” attitude.

Spread terror among real or potential enemies. Carrying out systematic efforts to destroy one group of enemies may send a clear signal to other potential enemies. Fein calls this motivation “preemptive.”

To acquire economic wealth. If a group (for instance, an indigenous people) stands in the way of the economic progress of another group, then it may “make sense” to simply get rid of the group that is in the way.

Implement a belief or ideology. The goal may be to create a pure race or it may be to create a utopian society. At any rate, the only way to deal with those who do not fit the ideal is to destroy them.

Causes

Genocide often occurs because of who people are and where they are from. To better understand why stereotyping happens, we need to better understand who we are.

Genocide

What is stereotyping?

Why does it occur?

Predict

to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same

Stereotype definition

1. Who am I?2. What does it mean to be ‘from a place’?3. How does where we are from influence who we are?4. I have been stereotyped when…5. I have stereotyped others when…..

Put it on Paper!

Lets really understand our identity

Geography of Me

Debrief