Faulk+-+Rwanda


 * 2. Pretend that American Civil Rights has re-emerged and everyone must carry an identification card vouching for their ethnicity, but this time, if you aren’t the right ethnicity, you will be killed. Welcome to Rwanda where the Hutu and Tutsi are engaged in open warfare because of their ethnicity. **

Opener: Students will first create ID badges that are similar in structure to Hutu and Tutsi badges. They will then be randomly assigned an ethnicity (Hutu and Tutsi) and will have to sit accordingly. Review: After a brief history review on what the American Civil Rights were, we will immediately look at the Hutu and Tutsi people and their relationship. (This will hopefully be taught in a mini unit on genocide in the word). Who exactly are they, what are their geographical regions, why are they fighting (the history), and what was the 100 days massacre? Activity: Students will go on a virtual field trip and will look at videos, photographs, audio recordings, interviews, articles, and websites dedicated to the massacre. The will take an in-depth look at the genocide and its components. This will be done individually. As an assessment, students will create a timeline, albeit small, for the history of the Hutu and Tutsi relationship. They should be as specific as possible and include the “differences” between the two. Following the timeline, students will write a reflection on what they have learned. They should address how they feel, what they would do in the situation, their opinions, ideas for negating further massacres, and a connection between this and another massacre or a historical “classification” of people (such as Jews, the Jewish star, and the Holocaust, Blacks in South Africa and apartheid, Sudan, and Bosnia). This can be a typed or handwritten reflection or it can be done in some sort of presentation format (PowerPoint, etc. )

[] (website of Rwandan massacre with primary sources) [] (website of Rwandan massacre with primary sources) [] (photography) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1814793 (audio from NPR with first-hand accounts and interviews) [] (video/ slide show) [] (first person article) [|http://www.trumanwebdesign.com/~catalina/tutsiID.jpg] (ID card) [] (article of brief history) [] (a lesson plan with sources and links)
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