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RESEARCH LINKS
Refugees and ImmigrantsImportant Terms:
Behind the News Refugee Crisis - Video overview of refugee experience from Middle East to Europe Roads to Refuge - Comprehensive information on types of refugees, journeys, and resettlements Against All Odds - A game that lets you experience what it's like to be a refugee, includes factual information Refugee Camp Interactive Guide - Tour a virtual refugee camp and meet challenges facing some 42 million uprooted by war and searching for safety Save the Children - Nonprofit organization that works with refugee children around the world NewsELA - Current events (class code AAM42H) Civil Rights MovementImportant Terms:
History for Kids - Good overview Ducksters Civil Rights for Kids - Good overview with more history NBC Learn Finishing the Dream - Video clips from and about the civil rights movement Unreported World: 50 Years After Selma - Barack Obama's speech at Selma protest anniversary Racial DiscriminationImportant Terms:
BGD Four Things We Should All Teach Kids about Racism Right Now - Black Girl Dangerous explains racism (other articles on this site might contain profanity, but this article does not) NewsELA - Current events (class code AAM42H) Native American RightsImportant Terms:
Ducksters Native American Rights - History of Indian relations NewsELA - Current events (class code AAM42H) Workers' RightsImportant Terms:
Behind the News Fashion Factories - Video overview of sweatshops, links to more information NewsELA - Current events (class code AAM42H) Religious DiscriminationImportant Terms:
Mother Jones: This Is What It's Like to Be a Muslim Schoolkid in America Right Now - Stories of harassment and bullying by students and teachers OnFaith: The Burden of Being a Young American Muslim - Stories of discrimination and violence NewsELA - Current events (class code AAM42H) Other |
Jewish Holocaust During WWIIImportant Terms:
US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Many topics relating to Holocaust Japanese Internment During WWIIImportant Terms:
History.com Japanese Relocation - Video and article overview, interesting "related content" in the sidebar Dear Miss Breed, Letters from Camp - Children's librarian who corresponded with Japanese American children in the camps Japanese Incarceration: The Core Story - History and oral history of Japanese internment. Includes videos and interviews Japanese Americans at Manzanar - Life at the Manzanar camp LGBTQ Discrimination Important Terms:
NewsELA - Current events (class code AAM42H) Parent Power: Raising Kate - One mom's fight for her child's identity Disability DiscriminationImportant Terms:
Ducksters Disability Rights - History of the movement PBS Educational Rights Overview - Explains the current rights of students with any kind of disability AAPD Disability Rights Timeline - Extensive timeline of disability rights movement LIFECIL Disability Rights Overview - History of the Independent Living Movement Disability Etiquette - How to be polite when communicating with someone with a disability NewsELA - Current events (class code AAM42H) Salem Witch TrialsImportant Terms:
National Geographic Kids Salem Witch Trials - Simple overview Kids' Questions about the Salem Witch Trials - Video interview with director of education at the Salem Witch Museum History.com Salem Witch Trials - Video and article overview, interesting "related content" in the sidebar National Geographic Salem Witch Trials - Experience the 1692 Salem witch-hunt in a terrifying online trial Smithsonian Magazine Brief History of Salem Witch Trials - More advanced overview SlaveryImportant Terms:
Ducksters History of Slavery in the US - Overview of enslavement of blacks in America Mashable: What Being a Flight Attendant Taught Me about Human Trafficking - How to spot the signs of someone being trafficked Interpol: Types of Human Trafficking - 5 types Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry - Slaves are harvesting your cocoa CNN Freedom Project - Many articles on various types of modern slavery Women's RightsImportant Terms:
History for Kids Women's Suffrage - Overview of the struggle to get women the vote |
ART OR DESIGN OF THE MOVEMENT
Examples
What to Make
Picket line posters, banner, tshirts, political cartoon, mural, art with a message, petition, song, rap, poem, slam poetry
Poster or Logo DesignCanva - Graphic design for banners, posters, invitations, tumblr posts, web page ads, and more
Storyboard That - Comic creator to make political cartoons |
Song Writing and Poetry
Thinking of Writing a Protest Song? Here Is Some Inspiration - Questlove's push to write protest songs: “I mean real stories. Real narratives. Songs with spirit in them. Songs with solutions. Songs with questions. Protest songs don’t have to be boring or non danceable…They just have to speak truth.” Links to some recent protest songs.
Ten Most Powerful Protest Songs of the 21st Century_ - From GreenDay to MIA to Radiohead How to Write a Protest Poem - Suggestions for technique and sentence starters |
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