| Webquest There have been a number of political assassinations in history: Yitzchak Rabin, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln to name but a few of the most famous. These assassinations have shocked the world, and changed history. Although governments condemn these assassinations, many people believe that their leaders have not been assassinated by one single person, but rather, by a group of people in conspiracy. 1. First, you will need to do some vocabulary work . Write down your answers on a sheet of paper. 1. Look up the word assassination and write down what it means. 2. What kind of person is assassinated? 3. What is the difference between assassinate and murder or kill? 4. Look up the word conspire and write down what it means. Then look up the word conspiracy. Vocabulary (translate the words you find here, and add to the list as you go along) English Hebrew assassinate conspire conspiracy condemn suggest government 2. Choose a person who was assassinated. See if there are any webpages that suggest that their assassination was not carried out by a single person, rather, that it was part of a conspiracy. You can try one of the websites listed here, or- look for your own sources, using a search engine such as http://www.yahooligans.com or http://www.askjeeves.com Be sure you include the URL�s (web addresses) of the sources you use! 3. Your task: In your own words, describe each site you visited, who wrote it (if you know) and what information you found there. Was the site convincing? Do you believe that there was a conspiracy to assassinate your chosen personality? 4. Write a Trivia question about something you learned from the work you have done. (Don�t forget to include the answer.) Abraham Lincoln http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln74.html John F. Kennedy http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/faq.txt http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/collections/assassinations/jfk/basicev.htm Robert F. Kennedy http://www.freespeech.org/rfkennedy/index.html |
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