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JOURNAL OVERVIEW

Your Human Rights Journal enables you to reflect on the human rights issues in The Fifth Sacred Thing (FST) novel as well as those in our realities. Your weekly journal entries will explore several issues and aspects of global human rights that we discuss throughout the course.

There are a total of eight journal entries for this assignment, completed on a weekly basis. Your journal entries will be the basis of our class discussions about the novel each week. Therefore, it is important to complete them in a timely manner.

The Journal will be submitted, reviewed, and graded twice – after the fourth and eighth entries. The Journal is graded using the associated rubric found in Canvas (Modules  Assignments, Guidelines, & Rubrics) (Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 4)

Please let me know as soon as possible if you have any questions about this assignment.

Due Dates:various, see below and in syllabus

Total Point Value: 200 (20%)

II JOURNAL ENTRIES

In general, to what extent do you see the six categories of human rights reflected in the novel? In particular, how do the characters of the novel exercise their civic/political, economic/social/cultural, individual, and collective human rights? Further, what practices, events, policies, etc. unfold that exemplify violations, protecting, and/or promoting human rights? To what extent and how does the novel illustrate torture, genocide, or human rights for particular people – children, women, racial/ethnic groups, etc.? Finally, to what extent do you think the FST parallels or foreshadows a possible future for society in general and human rights in particular?

One way to think of the journal is as a series of creative writing assignments focusing on a particular topic. Grammar, punctuation, etc. are not as important as the ideas being expressed. If you are inclined to poetry, story-telling, etc. those writing forms are perfectly acceptable for the journal. Regarding length, the journal entries will vary, but a good benchmark is a minimum of 1-2 well-developed paragraphs (100-200 words) and a maximum of 2 pages (650 words).

III JOURNAL PROMPTS

Specific prompts for each week are provided below, and it is important to respond to them in some manner. However, they are not intended to limit your entries. Rather, they are literally prompts to get you started, not ending points. Also indicated is the range of chapters that should be the primary, but not exclusive, focus for that week’s entry.

1. Journal #1 – FST chs. 1-4: Tuesday, 10/1

What are your initial impressions of the two societies in the novel? What seem to be the current realities for people living in the “North” and “South” in the novel? What does this suggest about the core values of each society?

1. Journal #2 – FST chs. 5-9: Tuesday, 10/8

What human rights issues are presented in the initial chapters of the novel? Do they correspond to any of the categories of human rights; which ones, and how?

1. Journal #3 – FST chs. 10-14: Tuesday, 10/15

How are the different communities and individuals responding to the human rights violations that they encounter?

1. Journal #4 – FST chs. 15-19: Tuesday, 10/22

What does the suggestion offered to Maya by Elijah mean? How could it be used to respond to the situation faced by the North?

NOTE: Journal entries 1-4 should be submitted on Canvas by midnight on Tuesday, Oct. 22^rd.

1. Journal #5 – FST chs. 20-24: Tuesday, 10/29

What roles do and should children have in discussions about human rights and the related events of their communities?

1. Journal #6 – FST chs. 25-28: Tuesday, 11/5

In any given society or community, who is responsible when basic human rights are violated and/or when egregious violations of human rights occur (torture, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity)?

1. Journal #7 – FST chs. 29-32: Tuesday, 11/12

How well are the strategies by the North working for protecting and promoting human rights?

1. Journal #8 – FST chs. 33-37: Tuesday, 11/19

Is The Fifth Sacred Thing only fiction? That is, to what extent do the events in the novel parallel our realities? Are the human rights situations – violations, responses, protections, etc. – in the novel exaggerated or understated compared to our world?please avoid plagiarism

Use very simple words

Follow the steps below and answer each question in a 3 paragraphs length: