With the Dayton peace accords 20th anniversary fast approaching (and national and international leaders descending upon Dayton soon), students at the Dayton Regional STEM School are learning about the important role played by the city in helping to bring about a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Bosnia. These lessons are taking place in a number of classes and extra-curricular opportunities.
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| 10th graders begin their study of conflicts and genocides of the 20th century in world history and language arts. Some students will be reading the book "Safe Area Gorazde," a graphic novel about the Bosnian Genocide. |
In 10th grade, students in Mr. Nuñez's world history classes and Ms. Reid's language arts classes have just begun their unit on Conflicts and Genocides of the 20th Century. On Wednesday, Ms. Reid and Mr. Nuñez co-taught their history and language arts classes to introduce their students to each of the topics they would be studying within the unit, including the Bosnian genocide. Eventually, students will create posters memorializing a past conflict or genocide and/or calling attention to a current, ongoing one around the world today.
Check out this article from the United to End Genocide organization to learn more about the project, which is in its 6th year at DRSS.
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| Students began learning about some of the key players in the Bosnian Genocide. |
Also on Wednesday, students in the the DRSS chapter of the
Dayton Junior Council on World Affairs traveled to Sinclair Community College for a special presentation regarding the Dayton Peace Accords. The topic of the day was “Dayton Peace Accords: 20 Years Later.” There were three sessions. In the first session, students learned about the topic of genocide from Dr. Katherine Rowell of Sinclair. In the second, they studied the Bosnian Conflict in particular. In the third, Dr. William Ayres of Wright State University gave a lecture on the issues, problems, outcomes, and current challenges of the Dayton Peace Accords today. Students had the opportunity to pose questions to each presenter and discuss the topic. Over 150 students from 10 different schools participated in the event.
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| Students listened to presenters for part of the day. |
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| Students also participated in debate sessions and are seen here plotting arguments for their presentations. |
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| Ray Hampton presented his team's argument at the end of the day about how to prevent genocide moving forward. |
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| Students heard from Dr. Rowell about the 8 Stages of Genocide, something that they also learn in their world history class at DRSS. |
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| More DRSS JCOWA members! |
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| Mr. Lydy and some of the newer members of our JCOWA team! |
DRSS is also involved in the celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords through current DRSS junior, Joel Baker. Joel designed the logo that is going to be used for the ceremony. Joel entered the logo contest last year, which was sponsored by the local arts organization,
Culture Works. He and his parents, Amanda and Daniel Baker, along with his former 10th grade history teacher, Arch Grieve, have been invited to attend two of the events taking place between November 18th and 21st. Congratulations Joel!
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| An excerpt from the Culture Works summer newsletter about Joel's award - Congratulations Joel! |
For more information on the celebrations taking place, as well as some of the national and international VIPs who will be in attendance (including former President Bill Clinton),
check out this story from the Dayton Daily News, and
watch our Facebook page for updates!
