…do the thing that you can do...
Thanks for taking the time to check out I Learned a New Word Today…Genocide. I really hope you enjoy reading Javier’s story as he discovers a word that changes his life.
Genocide is scary word. I remember the first time I heard it. I was in high school, in the ninth grade, when my history teacher started teaching our class about the Holocaust.
I remember when she started telling us more about what genocide meant, I wanted her to stop talking. I think that I drew quirky little shapes in my notebook to distract myself from the horrible things she was saying.
I remember thinking that hurting or destroying other people was the most awful thing I could think of.
Well, I’m not in ninth grade anymore. I’m grown up and I have a family of my own. Still, though, I think that hurting or destroying other people is the most awful thing I can imagine.
The really bad thing is this hurt and destruction of people isn’t just in the past. Genocide still happens and it’s happening even now!
But instead of just knowing about this and thinking how terrible and wrong genocide is, I decided that I would find something that I could do to help end it. Then once I knew what thing I could do – I would do it!
I decided that writing this book was something I could do. You see, if I care about making an end to genocide, and then I write and tell students like you about it, then maybe you will care, too. Maybe you’ll find a thing that you can do – and then you’ll do it. And as you do these different things, you will be helping more people learn and care about ending genocide.
Then guess what?
Pretty soon, we could have this whole team of kids like you who has decided that genocide needs to stop and that there are things that can be done to make it end (when you read I Learned a New Word Today…Genocide, you will learn lots of stuff that you can do).
Please write to me and tell me the thing that you decide to do to help make genocide history. I really want to hear from you!
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