Prove it!
How do we prove what has happened? How can we write an effective argument about children stuck in conflict?
We need evidence.
We need evidence.
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Source: http://www.princeton.edu/~refdesk/primary2.html
A primary source: is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study. These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event. Some types of primary sources include:
What is a secondary source? A secondary source interprets and analyses primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event. Secondary sources may have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them. Some types of secondary sources include:
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Our Task: UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR REPORT!
Objective;
To evaluate, through historical sources, the impact of your chosen conflict on children.
1. Find 5 primary or secondary sources that support your claim to children's rights' abuses. "Primary sources are better"
Try to find sources that support at least 3 right's abuses.
2. Create a table with 3 columns to demonstrate your sources and their relevance.
ex. Source description: | Relevance | Impact
What is the source? How is it useful? What is the long term impact of this?
What is it about? How does this show abuse Will there be any long term impacts? What?
Primary or secondary of children's rights and why?
3. Now, imagine you are living in the country where the conflict is happening at a time when the conflict is happening.
4. You are going to write a letter to a friend of yours who is living in another country explaining to him what life is like for children living in your country.
Format of the letter:
To evaluate, through historical sources, the impact of your chosen conflict on children.
1. Find 5 primary or secondary sources that support your claim to children's rights' abuses. "Primary sources are better"
Try to find sources that support at least 3 right's abuses.
2. Create a table with 3 columns to demonstrate your sources and their relevance.
ex. Source description: | Relevance | Impact
What is the source? How is it useful? What is the long term impact of this?
What is it about? How does this show abuse Will there be any long term impacts? What?
Primary or secondary of children's rights and why?
3. Now, imagine you are living in the country where the conflict is happening at a time when the conflict is happening.
4. You are going to write a letter to a friend of yours who is living in another country explaining to him what life is like for children living in your country.
- Where and when is the conflict?
- What are the children's rights' abuses?
- Use the sources as evidence of the abuses
- Describe the long term effects of these abuses.
- What do you think should be or could be done.
Format of the letter:
- Salutations
- Paragraph 1:
- Identify the conflict: Where, what, when?
- Paragraph 1:
- Body:
- Identify each of the children's rights' abuses.
- For each, state the impact of the abuse.
- For each, show the evidence to support this statement.
- Identify each of the children's rights' abuses.
- Conclusion:
- State what you think could be done to help the children and say good bye to your friend. "You don't know if you'll ever communicate with him/her again."