Digital Unit Plan Template

1915 Armenian genocide, Syrian human rights crisis and evolving concepts of Isaac Hurtado
Human rights

Social Studies Grade Level:10

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

1. CCSS 10.5 5. Discuss human rights violations and

genocide, including the Ottoman governments
2. actions against Armenian citizens.

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

Armenian genocide happened a long time ago, before the holocaust,UN, nuremberg trials, and contemporary standards of
Human rights. By understanding the ravages of war, Human right abuses of a dictator and his military, students get a much
more in-depth look into what the Armenian people went through to escape persecution, violence and...genocide by looking
at the Syrian crisis from the perspective of Syrian citizens

Unit Summary:

Assessment Plan:

Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:

KWL chart writing assignment on an Armenian venn diagram comparing and contrasting debate on whether
painting to see what the image conjures in the contemporary Syrians and 1915 Armenian tragedy
students understanding(if any) about Armenians. Armenians. should be classified as
War crimes or
genocide? After
Webercise for research
and preparation for
debate

Lesson 1

Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities:

Students will be able to recognize the Armenians (Assessments): class will brainstorm together first
art piece refers to the death marchesinto Syrian
dessert In 1915. Also students will be able to
locate on a map where the death marches began
from modern day Turkey and ended in the Syrian
desert.students will be able to identify the
perpetrators of the massacre being the Ottoman
empire as they deliberately killed 1.5 million
Ottoman Armenian Christians.
Lesson 2
Student Learning Objective: students will be able
to understand better the Armenian experience of
state sponsored violence, diaspora and the
propensity to human rights abuses non-
democratic forms of government has for its
citizens. Syrian civil war footage and refugee
crisis will help students empathize with those
suffering and give them the perspective of what
Armenians must have gone through.
Lesson 3
Student Learning Objective:
Students will be able to orally present there
opinion on a controversial historical topic
Unit Resources:
http://www.iamsyria.org/take-action.html
global oneness project photo essay
Vicenews
Quizlet
-Al Jazeera
Filling out of KWL chart, and looking at Armenian painting and
most importantly when begin a KWL writing assignment.
completing the Learned
portion, students clearly
understand that brutal human
rights offenses were
committed against Armenian
citizens.
Acceptable Evidence:
Students will be able to create a
venn diagram to show where the
two crisis compare and contrast
showing a deeper understanding of
both crisis and the intricacies of
Human rights involved with
changing times and norms.
Acceptable Evidence:
Quizlet flashcards made by all
students for debate preparation and
performance at the debate.
Lesson Activities:
Questions throughout
lecture/guied notes give me
opportunity to assess students
grasp of comparing 1915
Armenians with current Syrian
crisis and completing a venn
diagram.
Lesson Activities:
Essential questions throughout
lecture/guided notes prepare them
for webercise activity of gathering
debate material.
united nations declaration of human rights(UNDHR)

boy who started Syrian war

Useful Websites:
-Al Jazeera

Vicenews

-BBC

-SYRIA VIDEO TOUR

-the guardian