Resources for Teachers and Librarians
http://novemberlearning.com/
Hubs: Essential Websites
- Common Dreams
- Indymedia.org
- Not in Our Name
- Peace Response
- Protest.Net
- United for Peace
- Democracy Now
Magazines & Newspapers
- Guardian UK
- Middle East Research & Info Project
- Mother Jones
- Peace Magazine
- The Nation
- The Other Side
- Utne Reader
Peace Organizations
- American Friends Service Committee
- Catholic Peace Fellowship
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Fourth Freedom Forum
- Friends Committee on National Legislation
- National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund
- National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
- Pax Christi USA
- Veterans for Peace
- Voices in the Wilderness
- Waging Peace
- War Resisters League
International Organizations
- Amnesty International
- Center on Conscience and War
- Christian Peacemaker Teams
- Equal Exchange and Fair Trade
- Global Exchange
- Greenpeace
- Peace Brigades International
- UNESCO-Culture of Peace
- War Resisters International
Others
- Christian Nonviolence Network
- Father John Dear’s website
- Institute for Global Communication
- Resource Center for Nonviolence
- Bruderhof Peacemakers Guide
| School Library Journal’s EXTRA HELPING: Rosa Parks: How I Fought for Civil Rights |
| teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/ |
| Rosa Parks, considered “the mother of the modern-day Civil Rights movement” was born on February 4, 1913. On December 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, AL, to make room for white passengers. Her arrest resulted in a bus boycott, led by a new and relatively unknown local minister–Martin Luther King. Eventually the Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery’s segregation laws were unconstitutional.Rosa Parks spent her entire life furthering the cause of civil rights. She died on October 25, 2005 at the age of 92. Her life was one of courage and concern for a higher purpose. For more information about Parks’s life and the Montgomery bus boycott, and to see numerous videos from Rosa’s funeral (including a speech by President Clinton and a song by Aretha Franklin), go to www.montgomeryboycott.com/ frontpage.htm.—Gail Junion-Metz |
School Library Journal’s EXTRA HELPING:
About 100 young adult authors will be ready and waiting for young readers’ questions as part of a two-week “Pulse Blogfest” taking place March 14–27.
Sponsored by Simon & Schuster, the blogfest will feature Scott Westerfeld, author of the “Uglies” series; Kate Brian, author of the “Private” series; Ellen Hopkins, author of the novels Glass (2007) and Burned (2006); and Holly Black, author of the teen novels Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (2002) and Ironside: A Modern Faery’s Tale (2007), and coauthor of the middle-school series Spiderwick Chronicles. read more…
Information from Paul Allison of the NYCWP:
George Mayo, an 8th grade teacher in a school just outside of Washington D.C and his students are getting the word out for a Global Darfur Awareness Event to take place on March 6th. Mr. Mayo’s students started this Darfur Awareness blog as part of a classroom project: http://stopgenocide.edublogs.org/Students were really into this topic and have decided they would like to continue, even though projects are officially over. So we have teamed up with Wendy Drexler’s 3rd grade students in Florida and are co-sponsoring this Global Darfur Awareness Event:
http://manyvoicesdarfur.blogspot.com/ Project blog
http://stopgenocide.wikispaces.com/ Project wiki
Mission Statement: Many Voices for Darfur Blog This is a global collaborative effort involving k-12 students from around the globe to raise awareness about the genocide inDarfur. On March 6th, we are asking students from around the world to visit our Many Voices for Darfur Blog and leave thoughtful, well-written comments.
New Youth Connections:
A Trip to the Polls
I cast my first vote based on issues, not on race
By Donald Moore
At age 19, Donald voted in his first presidential primary on Super Tuesday.
He writes, “Now, it feels like many of my friends have a vested interest in the candidates. And it’s more than just a vote to them. I don’t want to say they see it as a life or death decision, but they are taking it really seriously. And I felt that on voting day.”
>> Read what Donald and his friends have been debating in their discussions about the presidential race.
Donald’s story aired on NPR’s radio show Day to Day
Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region, Inc. (Albany, N.Y.):
https://www.ugrworkshop.com
Key Websites for History Research
| Tom Daccord’s online resource, Best of History Web Sites, offers a treasure trove of Web sites, lesson plans, course unite and PowerPoint presentations, |
The New York Times on the web Learning Network, Connections for Students, Teachers and Parents (Grades 3-12) http://www.nytimes.com/learning
Explore historic images of your neighborhood from your home or classroom by visiting NYPL’s Digital Gallery: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/