Planning My Outcome

What?

I am going to present my research using iMovie or Keynote Presentation. 

How?

I will include all the information and images I have found in my presentation, and here are my SCs:
1. To be able to present my issue in an organised manner so that everyone can understand it easily.
2. To be able to write a piece of writing to support my presentation.

Where I want to be on the Level Mountain:

Analyse and if possible, the link level.

What skills will I use?

Information processing (when trying to get a piece of information from a very long article), locating and collecting (when looking for necessary research materials on the internet), sorting (when organising my presentation), developing criteria (when writing down our success criteria for each lesson), evaluating information (when checking if a website is accurate or reliable) and explaining my thoughts (when presenting my opinion about my human issue).

Human Right Issues

The human rights issue that I have chosen is Slavery.

17/10/11

SC: To be able to find out how serious Slavery was since the old days.
To be able to answer 5W's and an H about this issue.





I think this issue is very important because even though slavery has been banned a long time ago, it is still going on secretly all around the world. Some examples of modern slavery are: e.g. domestic violence, sexual exploitation, child labour, etc.

These are the 5W's and an H I would want to ask and investigate about this issue:


1. What is slavery?
2. When did slavery start?
3. Where does slavery happen the most?
4. Why is slavery still going on now?
5. Who started slavery?
6. How can we help prevent slavery?


SC1 yes/no/nearly?
Yes, because I have read through some articles about slavery in the past as well as in the present and understood how serious this issue was. 


SC2 
Nearly, because I wasn't able to find the answers to all of the questions above on time by the end of this lesson. 






18/10/11


SC1: To be able to answer my 5W's and an H from last lesson.


SC2: To be able to answer most of the questions on the research sheet by the end of this lesson.


Answers to the 5W's and an H shown above:


1. Slavery is the state of being forcibly bound to a person and have his/her life, liberty and fortune controlled. Some examples are




SC1 yes/no/nearly?
Nearly, because I found the answers to all of these questions, but have not written them down yet.


SC2
No, because I was concentrating on completing SC1 today and did not have enough time to answer the questions on the research sheet. 


31/10/11


SC1: To be able to finish most of my research sheet.


SC2: To be able to start on the outcome.


SC1 yes/no/nearly
No, because I have just started on the research sheet, so I am still far from completion.


SC2
No, because I have been working on my research sheet, so I have not started on the outcome.




3/11/11


SC1: To finish my research sheet.


SC2: To start working on my Keynote Presentation.


SC1: Yes, because I was able to complete my research sheet.


SC2: No, because I did not have enough time to start on my outcome.

Who Is This Boy?

LI: To ask questions.
To research.
To construct a biography.
To empathise and have an awareness of different situations.

SC: To be able to look for a reliable source of information on the internet and only get the necessary bits out of it.
To be able to put myself into other people's shoes and produce an effective biography.

Does Everyone Has Access To Their Human Rights?

LI: To know the 5Ws of Amnesty International.
To evaluate whether everyone has access to their human rights.
To reflect on others' situations.


SC: To research on Amnesty International.
To understand the issues about access to human rights.



Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate actions to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated." Amnesty was founded in London on July 1961 by Peter Benenson. 
It all started with an article Peter published called "The Forgotten Prisoners". He wrote the article after learning that two Portuguese students was imprisoned for raising a toast to freedom. The article was reprinted in newspapers across the world and provoked a flood of responses from the readers and marshalling groups in several countries to examine human rights abuses.The appeal marks the beginning of Amnesty International, founded in London the same year following the publication. 
The organisation was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its "campaign against torture", and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 1978.


Yes _________________Maybe____x______________No


Most people have access to their own human rights, but some of them don't. Many children all around the world are forced to work at extreme conditions from a very young age.

Watch this video by Amnesty International

How does it make you feel?  What does this tell us about people and their human rights?

It makes me feel very sorry for the people who are in various kinds of difficult situations and provokes me into standing up for them. This tells us that a lot of people still do not have access to their human rights

Who was involved in the video?

Asylum seeker

Sewing girl/Victim of child labour

Child soldiers

Journalist

Child labour - rubbish/recycling

Monks

Scene	Human Rights affected
Child labour - rubbish/recycling	- The right to be exploited (not work before the minimum age) - The right to an education. - The right to play. - The right to be in a fair and free world. - No one can take away your human rights. - All children have the right to what follows, no matter what their race, colour sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, or where they were born or who they were born to.

Humanities Reflection

The 3 Human Rights events I researched about are the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). 
The treaties for the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 16, 1966, and in force from March 23rd and January 3rd, 1976. The ICCPR commits its parties to respect the civil and political rights of individuals, including the right to life, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, electoral rights and rights to due process and a fair trial; the ICESCR commits its parties to work toward the granting of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) to individuals, including labour rights and the right to health, the right to education and the right to have an adequate standard of living.
The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is an international convention adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly. It came into force on 3 September 1981. This is a very important right because it establishes an agenda of action for putting an end to sex-based discrimination.
In my opinion, I think the ICCPR is the most important among the three, followed by the ICESR and the CEDAW. It is because the ICCPR includes the right to life, which is imperative to all of us, hence I prioritized it first; I put the ICESR second as it includes the rights to health and an adequate standard of living, which again are essential to us, thus my decision; last but not least, the CEDAW. I placed it third because even though it is important, it is not as imperative as the other two. If the ICCPR and ICESR were never adopted, people will be killing each other and life will be terrible for all of us. That is why I ranked them in this order.
In the group task, I performed the roles of the critical eye, coordinator and specialist. The critical eye because my friend and I were assigned to organise the class so that all of us had a part in the project, and we were able to do it in a quiet but efficient way; the coordinator as I distributed equal amount of work to the class and made sure they worked together properly; and lastly the specialist because when I was assigned to organise the class, I knew about the technical aspects of being a leader and was able to achieve the task.
Overall, I think this was a very good learning experience and hope we will be doing something like this again soon.