Assignment:To choose a form of injustice in Canada and explore it through research. The final product will be a 5-paragraph essay outline with a clear thesis.
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Questions to Consider:
- Does injustice still happen in Canada today? Has it happened before? What are the types of injustice we have had/are still experiencing? How has the injustice been addressed, or has it?
- Where is it happening? What is happening? What are/were the effects of this injustice on the people of the community? What can be/should have been done to resolve it?
Steps to completing your assignment:
- Choose your topic
- Research your topic
- Use databases, websites you have evaluated, and/or print sources
- Locate 2 important quotes you would use in an essay
- Record your sources in NoodleTools
- Write a 5-paragraph essay outline with a clear thesis
- Submit the final essay and works cited page for marking
Research: What To Use
Books
- Several books have been pulled and set aside for your use in the library.
Databases
- Canadian Points of View Reference Centre (Ebsco): Click and search for thousands of essays related to environment, health, human rights, crime, race, technology, substance abuse, and many more.
- Canada in Context (Gale): Information on a broad range of Canadian topics, people, places and events written from a Canadian perspective.
- Points to the Past (Gale): A collection of primary sources accessed through 28 databases. Made up of nearly 200 million pages of digitized historical content.
- For either database: Begin with a search for your specific topic. In some cases, you may need to add “Canada” to the topic to make sure it relates to Canada, i.e. “women’s rights Canada”.
Reliable Websites
There are several nonprofit and media sites which will provide you with access to their information and archives. The following are recommended:
Searchable Nonprofit Websites:
- The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- Canada’s Human Rights History (look through the list on the right side)
- Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective
- The Centre for Social Justice
Media Websites:
- Vancouver Sun (newspaper)
- Maclean’s (national current affairs and news magazine)
- CBC (news)
- The British Colonist (use this resource to look up by topic or topic dates, i.e. “Wartimes Election Act”)
Other Websites
- You may find certain topics are easier to find on the internet. As such, make sure you remember to evaluate any website using the CRAAP method.
- Limit your searches to certain domains (.edu .gc .ca etc), and avoid .com
- To help you get started, begin with the recommended links below. These have already been evaluated for you.