Tragedy of Darfur"

Today in class we are reading an article from Rolling Stone titled "The Tragedy of Darfur," written by Dinaw Mengestu. Your job today is to develop reasons for international intervention and to mine for evidence and quotations to support this intervention.

Directions
1. In groups, you are to read this article. You may read in silently, or you may read it aloud. (Silently would be quicker.) While reading, annotate the text. You know your purpose for reading, so underline and jot down notes next to useful information.
2. My advice would be for each group to read to the break. When you see an overly large letter start a paragraph, that means that a new section is starting. When the group reaches the break, discuss possible evidence.
3. Each group is responsible for handing in one sheet of paper by the end of class. Put the name of each group member at the top. This sheet of paper should have two columns. One column should be titled "Reasons for Intervention," and the other should be "evidence." In the evidence column, jot down a little of the quote, or paraphrase the information. The reasons and evidence should encompass the whole article.
4. If your group doesn't finish, you must still hand in the sheet. However, you will only receive partial credit. You must individually finish the article for homework, and complete a separate chart of the section that your group didn't finish. So, each group will start with the same grade, but this grade would be increased with whatever you hand in tomorrow. It is possible, however, to finish the work in the allotted time.
5. You are working groups, but you must stay on task. I'll be around for questions.

Darfur: A Wikipedia Primer

Read the full article here.

The Darfur conflict is an ongoing armed conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, mainly between the Janjaweed (translated: "devils on horseback"), a militia group recruited from the tribes of the Abbala Rizeigat (camel-herding Arabs), and the non-Baggara people (mostly land-tilling tribes) of the region. The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supports the Janjaweed, has provided money and assistance and has participated in joint attacks with the group, systematically targeting the Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit ethnic groups in Darfur.^[1] The conflict began in July 2003. Unlike in the Second Sudanese Civil War, which was fought between the primarily Muslim north and Christian and Animist south, in Darfur most of the residents are Muslim, as are the Janjaweed.^[2]

Estimated number of deaths in the conflict vary widely. Most NGOs use 400,000, a figure from the Coalition for International Justice that has since been cited by the United Nations. As many as 2.5 million are thought to have been displaced as of October 2006.^[3] (See Counting deaths section, below)

English IV - Position Paper Assignment Introduction

Assignment: Position Paper
Topic: Darfur Humanitarian Crisis

Your Task: Should the international community intervene in Darfur?

We will be writing 3/5 of this paper together. We are going to look at one source as a community of readers. The source is an article from the Semptember 21st issue of Rolling Stone, titled "The Tragedy in Darfur." We will mine for evidence, organize the evidence, and write body paragraphs together. Next week your job will be to find another source and integrate evidence and information from that source into the paper we already started writing.

During this mini-project I want to talk about:

• paraphrasing
• summarizing
• quoting
• paragraph organization
• citations
• works cited page