Major Assignments

Action Plan:

1. Choose your area of interest.
2. Decide what you want to do: raise awareness, raise funds, direct action.
3. Create a plan of action: What will I do?  When will this happen?  Whose help do I need? What tools/facilities do I need?  How do I advertise my PoA?  Make an appointment to get permission from Mr. Westhaver.  If you are working in pairs or in a group, who does what?

Action Plan Poster 

Your poster should include the following things:

1. A name for your action plan.
2. What kind of action did you do: raise awareness, raise funds, or direct action?
3. Why did you choose this action plan?
4. Describe what you did.
5. Photos either of your particular action plan or of the organization or something related to your action plan.

Action Plan Interview

Sign up for a time during the exam schedule to present your action plan.  You will be expected to do the following or answer the following questions during your interview.  

1. Bring your poster.
2. Describe your action plan.
3. What were your goals?
4. What things were challenging and what things went smoothly.
5. What did each of you do? (for groups, not individuals)
6. Did you accomplish your goals?  Why or why not?
7. Evaluate how your action plan went.  What would you do differently in the future.
8. Do you have anything to add?

Genocide Project

You will research a genocide that has happened in the last 200 years.  You must answer the following questions in your research.

• What happened? When? Where?  How many people were involved?
• What group was targetted? By whom? Why?
• Was the United Nations involved? If yes, what was their involvement?  If no, why not? (The answer may be that the UN had not yet been created.)
• Causes of genocide are complicated and multilayered.  Explain the causes and their interactions in your particular topic.
• Could this genocide have been prevented or diminished?  How?

You will create a presentation for the class.  Here are the criteria:

1. You must have two open ended questions that will allow for deep thought on the topic by your class-mates.  You will present these questions to the class before you start your presentation.
2. You will create a powerpoint, prezi, film, or some other kind of multi-media presentation that is appropriate for the topic.  You may include film clips, pictures, audio clips, maps, etc. as you feel will support your presentation.  These must not be too graphic.  This presentation must be between 5-10 minutes long. 
3.  You must revisit your questions with the class and then answer any questions they may have.
4. You will submit a resource list (aka bibliography) written in correct MLA format.  You must have at least three sources.  Only one can be Wikipedia.

These will be presented to the class March 6th, 7th, and 8th.  

You will choose from one of the following topics:

• Cambodian Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge (1975-79)
• Darfur, Sudan (ongoing)
• Somalian genocide of the Bantu population and the Jubba Valley dwellers (1991)
• WWII - the German extermination of the gay community
• WWII - the German Roma/Sinti Porrajmos
• WW II - the German extermination and experiments on people with disabilities and genetic diseases
• Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)
• the Canadian Sixties Scoop (1960s)
• Canadian Residential School System (1880s - 1996)
• Rape of Nanking (1937)
• Yugoslavia ethnic cleansing campaign (1992 - 1995)
• Chinese treatment of Tibet/Tibetans (1960s and ongoing)
• Australia's Stolen Generation - (1909 - 1970s)
• Armenian Genocide (1915)
• Ukraine Holdmor (1932-33)
• Trail of Tears (1830)
• Irish Potato Famine (1845 - 1852)
• The Dersim Massacre (1937 - 1938)
• Dominican Republic Massacre of Haitians (1937)
• Guatamala genocide of the Maya (1968 - 96)
• Burundian Genocide (1972 & 1993)
• North Korean treatment of Chinese-Korean babies, Christians, and political prisoners (mid 1990s and ongoing)
• The "Auschwitz of Africa" -  Equatorial Guinea (1968 - 1979)
• East Timor under Indonesian occupation (1975 - 1999)
• Laos genocide of the Hmong (1975)
• Ethiopian Red Terror (1977)
• Iraqi Kurdish genocide - Anfal Campaign (1988)
• Democratic Republic of Congo - Congo Civil War and cannibalism of the Pygmie people (1998 - 2003)