Answer the following questions...1. What do you think it means to be “real” or “fake”?
genocide all over again, just kidding . its wether your real or not .

Do you think it’s easier for people to be “fake” online than in real life? Why or why not?
yes because its not in real life.

1. Ramon talks about how some people exaggerate or seem very different online than in person. How do you explain these differences between their online and in-person personas?
because people get nervous.

2. Are there risks for creating an online presence that is very different than the offline one? Are there benefits?


3. What are other reasons why people might feel they can act in ways online that they wouldn’t act offline?
because, people act different behind the computer screen.

REVIEW the Key Vocabulary words anonymous and inhibited...
4. Are there any benefits to being anonymous or being less inhibited online?
why be someone your not ?

5. Are there risks involved with being anonymous or less inhibited online?
yes, it is against cyberbullying.

What are the origins of the Tutsi-Hutu conflict?

1. What percentage of the population do the Tutsis make up? The Hutus? Who owns the majority of the land?
 they were primarily cattle herders while the Hutus, making up 84 percent of the population, were farmers.
2. How did the Belgians show favor toward the Tutsis?
Educational privileges and government jobs were reserved solely for the Tutsis. Identity cards were issued to document ethnicity.

3. Why were identification cards later used for? How is this connected to the Holocaust?
These types of cards were later used to identify the Tutsi during the 1994 genocide.

4. When did Hutus gain political power?
Hutu parties gained control of the Rwandan government in 1959
5. Write two facts about the country of Rwanda.

In three years of civil war, fifty thousand Rwandans were killed and another one hundred thousand (almost all Tutsi) fled the country

 In 1972 as many as one hundred thousand Hutus were killed in Burundi.

Understanding Genocide

1) Define genocide.
Genocide is the deliberate extermination of a racial, religious or ethnic group’

2) List and DESCRIBE (2 sentences each) at least 2 seeds of genocide.
Anger and Violence are the seeds of genocide, plant these genocide will sprout. 

3) There have been 8 genocides noted. List what countries they occurred in
Namibia 1904
Armenia 1915
UKraine 1932
the Holocaust
Cambodia 1975
Guatemela 1982
Rwanda 1994
Bonsia 1995

4) NOT ON THIS WEBSITE - In what country is a current genocide occurring?
Central Africa

Rwanda Genocide

1. Describe the roles (jobs) between the Hutu and Tutsi group.

Tutsis tended to be landowners and Hutus the people who worked the land;

2. What effect did the European colonists have on them?

European colonial powers also introduced modern weapons and modern methods of waging war. Missionaries, too, came from Europe, bringing a new political twist:

3. What is the RPF? What group created it?

Many Tutsis retreated to exile in neighbouring countries, where they formed the Front Patriotique Rwandais, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), trained their soldiers, and waited.

4. When was the Rwandan president killed? What were Hutu civillians told to do as a result?

On April 6 1994 the plane carrying Rwanda's president was shot down,

5. What method was used to communicate the plan of genocide against the Tutsis?
The Tutsis were accused of killing the president, and Hutu civilians were told, by radio and word of mouth, that it was their duty to wipe the Tutsis out

Background to Hotel Rwanda

1) What are the two major groups in Rwanda?
There are two major ethnic groups in Rwanda, the Hutu and the Tutsi.

2) What group is considered "superior?" Why?
When the country was
colonised by the Belgians in 1916 they claimed that the Tutsi were superior to the Hutu

3) How was this group treated better?
TheBelgians made the Tutsi the ruling class, giving them better jobs, housing and educational
opportunities and charging them with keeping the Hutu ‘in their place

4) How long did the genocide last? How many people were killed during this time?
the Hutu built up and in 1959 20,000 Tutsi were killed
in a series of riots

5) Define genocide.
deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

Week 9 Grades

Geometry -122/220 = 55 %
Home Room - 67/125 = 53% (some of the blogs are not graded)
English - 173/203 = 85%
Math Lab - 129/167 = 77%

I am not satisfied with my grades, i will improve my grades. i thought i was doing good, but i guess i havent been trying hard enough.
i have a few missing assigments.

Week 6 Vocabulary Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

Verify - Whenever you are absent, Julianna calls your mommies and daddies to verify your absence and make sure you are actually sick and not just skipping school!

Sequence - Your personal narratives should follow a logical sequence of your story - the "before" you, the story that changed you, and the "after" version of you.

Simplify - You should try to simplify your life by simply listening to your teacher sometimes!