Class began today with discussion of a poem written by a witness to acts of genocide. Then, we discussed the Bystander Effect. During the discussion of the Bystander Effect, we began working on an assignment due Monday. It is the following:
Review the following quote from the Dalai Lama:
“The greatest threat to our world is we’re raising a generation of passive bystanders.”
•How would you respond the Dalai Lama’s statement?
•Do you agree or disagree?
•Can you point to any examples to support your assertions (besides the ones we spoke about)?
•1 -1 ½ pages double-spaced and typed
•Due Monday – 20 points
For Thursday your homework is to do some reading on the Rwandan Genocide. The following is a detailed explanation of the homework:
Please go the following link: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200109/power-genocide
The article is titled "Bystanders to Genocide" and was written by Samantha Power.
It was published in The Atlantic in September 2001.
Tonight, you will read the first five online pages of the article - see the links at the bottom of the article's first page. As you are reading, please use Google Notebook to record your thoughts. You should copy and paste 5 quotes into Google Notebook and then comment on each quote. We will use your comments as the basis for tomorrow's discussion, so please print out your work in the notebook. You do NOT need to print out the article unless you want to. We will read the second half of the article Thursday night and do the same activity.
Friday--Poetry assignment due.
Also, the Night vocab will be due next Tuesday--it is on Edline.
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