English 10 Modern Genocide Unit: Research Start

Essential Questions:

• What historical facts are necessary to understand the "W's" of a genocide?
• What makes a genocide a genocide?

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• Consider what makes a genocide a genocide by studying a modern era genocide

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• be an engaged learner of world events

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• I have worked with my group to create notes about a genocide and considered how we are going to teach our classmates

The United Nations definition of a genocide is found in Article II of the Genocide Convention:

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

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