Research PaperGenocide

Task:
Your task is to become an expert on one example of genocide and explain how and why this event
occurred. You will gather evidence to prove WHY genocide still happens today OR HOW people gain enough
power to inspire a genocide like the Holocaust. You will locate at least 3 types of sources and use 5 sources total.
Your job as a researcher is to gather evidence to support your claim (thesis). Use source materials to prove your
theory of why genocide happens today or how people gain enough power to inspire genocide.
Timeline:
1. Select an example of genocide
2. Find at least 3 types of sources such as newspaper or magazine articles, books, videos, documentaries,
interviews, and reputable websites. 5 sources total.
-For example 3 websites, 1 book, 1 magazine.
3. Create source cards to be used in creating your Works Cited page. Remember to refer to the MLA
handbook you will receive that gives examples.
4. Read your research information and highlight key facts, details, or examples that you want to use in your
paper or that you find very interesting or relevant.
5. Write a thesis statement to focus your paper
6. Create note cards for each piece of source information that will be used in the paper.
7. Revisit any of your source material from which you needed more information.
8. Learn to write a works cited page and create in-text citations
9. Organize and outline your paper.
10. Write rough draft
11. Peer Edit (Bring a full rough draft to class)
12. Revise and Edit
13. Write final draft including Works Cited page
14. Proofread final draft
15. Make revisions and print
Requirements
Note cards (minimum of 10).
Outline
Rough Draft
ARGUABLE THESIS STATEMENT!!! Your thesis statement is like a hypothesis in science. Its an
educated guess that you have to prove is true.
Your final paper should clearly prove and support your thesis.
Good introduction with an attention grabber.
Good conclusion--restating thesis and ending with a thought provoker (tie to intro).
Well organized and developed body of paper which provides examples, evidence, explanations, and
details.
MLA format with works cited page and in-text citations
Paper Length: four full pages to five pages, 12 pt font, no bold, typed, Times New Roman, double spaced with 1
margins. In this research paper, begin with an introduction and provide three or more main points or examples
along with sub points and quotes for each, and explain why they are important. Then transition to an insightful
conclusion that clearly states why this is an example of genocide and who was responsible.
Genocide

In 1941, Raphael Lemkin, a Polish writer and attorney, coined the word genocide by combining the Greek
word 'genos' (race) with the Latin word 'cide' (killing). Genocide, as defined by the United Nations in 1948, means
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or
religious group, including: (a) killing members of the group (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members
of the group (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical
destruction in whole or in part (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group (e) forcibly
transferring children of the group to another group.
(http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/index.html)

Assignment:
Select a specific world genocidal event to research. This research paper will:
1. Explain all parties involved
2. Explain who the victims were and why
3. Explain the stereotypes associated with the victims
4. Explain how the victims were captured, housed, treated, and finally murdered

Possible Genocides to research:

1. Armenian Genocide, 1915-18
2. Rwandan Genocide, 1994
3. East Pakistan: Genocide in East Bengal, 1971
4. Nan King Massacre, 1937-38
5. Cambodian Genocide, Pol Pot, 1975-79
6. Bosnian Genocide, 1992-95
7. Stalins Forced Famine on Ukrainians, 1932-33
8. Iraq: Saddam Husseins Campaign in Kurdistan, 1987-88
9. Native Americans (800 A.D.-1900)
10. Other possibilities upon teacher approval