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GENOCIDE

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These videos will provide an overview of each of the genocides that could potentially be explored during this unit.  Watch them with a partner and take notes about the highlights of each genocide.  These will provide a baseline knowledge for us all as we seek to understand these atrocities. 

What Will I Be Doing?

  1. Story of the genocide told from the perspective of EITHER the perpetrators or victims

  2. Demonstration of all 8 stages of genocide throughout the story

  3. An idea for a social awareness campaign to raise awareness for event and victims as part of the resolution of the story

  4. Historical Fiction

Specifications

Follow these guidelines to compose your story: 

  1. Three to five minute digital story in video format.

    1. Student made videos or illustrated with some premade videos

  2. Instrumental and lyrical soundtrack

  3. Voice narration

  4. Materials you may use are: your school computer, your smartphone or iPad, printer, scanner, illustration materials.

  5. Software and resources to use: Audacity, Freesound, SoundBible, AudioMicro, WeVideo, VoiceThread, Google Videos, Pixlr

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Stage 1: Preparation 

  1. Develop a story core and story map

  2. Use a research box to determine what is explicit and implicit in your story

  3. Using Ohler’s Eight Levels of Transformation or Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Transformation or Affective Transformation, develop your character’s thoroughly.

  4. Write a script.

  5. Develop a story table.

  6. Submit your work for Stage 1 Checkpoint.

Colored, bolded, and/or italicized text have resources/examples linked at the bottom of this page.

Stage 3: Presentation 

  1. Compose an introduction of no more than 1 minute that will hook the audience’s attention.

  2. Hook, shock, awe, etc…

  3. Compose a conclusion of no more than 1 minute that will nicely wrap up the story and the entire genocide. At the end of your conclusion, ask for questions from the audience.

  4. Compose 4 discussion questions that you will ask the audience pertaining to your specific genocide.

  5. You will be responsible for conducting a class discussion and trying to pull information and ideas from your classmates.

  6. Discussion questions must be open ended and reach the three highest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

  7. Submit your work for Stage 3 Checkpoint/Final Grading.

What Do I Need To Know?

In order to compose a successful historical fiction story about your genocide, you will need to become the class expert on the event. Locate and record this information. You will need to incorporate it ALL into your story.

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These pieces of information must be portrayed by either words or images throughout your story to give it accuracy of detail and depth.

  1. When and where did the genocide occur?

  2. Specific demographics of the victims and perpetrators.

    1. Backgrounds, history of each group, language, nationality, religion, etc. Whatever you deem as important for understanding the event.

  3. What events took place leading up to and during the genocide? Larger events that covered it up?

  4. How was the genocide accomplished?

  5. Why did it happen?

    1. Social, economic, racial, militaristic, religious, land, power, etc (these are just examples).

  6. Was there resistance? How did the rest of the world respond?

  7. What type of government was in control of the nation(s) and who was/were the rulers? Did this contribute to the cause of the genocide? What other factors made it possible for this genocide to be carried out so successfully?

  8. What was the solution/how did it end?

  9. Identify the 8 stages of the genocide.

Stage 2: Production 

  1. Gather and/or produce your media.

  2. If you are using original illustrations and premade videos, gather your media, ensuring that the videos are free for use and allowable for downloading.

  3. If you are filming a live video, acquire props and costumes and decide on a set to film your story.

  4. For both options of story production, record your voice narration and select and acquire audio and lyrical soundtracks.

  5. Record your narration as it appears in your story table. Each row of script in the table should be saved as its own audio file in order to add it to the appropriate sections of video or illustration.

  6. Save all of your media (videos, illustrations, audio) to your Google Drive.

  7. Assemble your digital story.

  8. Add your images to WeVideo in the order you listed them in your story table OR add your video to WeVideo.

  9. Add your audio files to WeVideo in their appropriate order.

  10. Before finalizing videos, we will engage in some peer editing to gain helpful feedback on your videos.

  11. Make appropriate changes based on your own review and peer editing comments.

  12. Finalize and save your video!

  13. Submit your work for Stage 2 Checkpoint.

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