Choate+CS+II

=  Class Critical Essay  =

 //Was Ethnic Hatred Responsible for the Rwandan Genocide of 1994?//
=== // One of the most devastating crises of the latter part of the twentieth century was the Rwandan Genocide. During a three month period, 800,000 members of the Tutsi tribes were slaughtered by Hutus. The genocide was the subject of a recent motion picture, and was written about by a multitude of authors. While much of the media raises the question of how and why the U.S. was involved in Rwanda, the more interesting historical question is the one posed by Issue 15 in your text (above). // === === // Using that text and other primary and secondary sources, write a wiki paper of no less than nine paragraphs answering the above question and defending your answer. That means you will have to do the following: // ===
 * 1) === // Agree as a class on a response.  // ===
 * 2) === // Develop a thesis statement.  // ===
 * 3) === // Develop an outline and break up the writing per the outline.  // ===
 * 4) === // 1 body paragraph for each student and a counterfactual (12 paragraphs).  // ===
 * 5) === // assign two editors to edit the text to sound like one author and write the introduction and conclusion.  // ===
 * 6) === // ask those editors to assist with the research.  // ===
 * 7) === // All of your communication should be inside the wiki (using comments or workpages).  // ===
 * 8) === // On Day 3, you will present the wiki paper to me as a class.  // ===