Advocate: Perceptions of Justice Resources and Standards
Resources and Standards
Books
Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine, Ed: Adwan, S., Bar-On, D, Naveh, E. Peace Research Institute Middle East, 2012.
The Lemon Tree, Tolan, S. Bloomsbury, 2008
Resource List
Alliance for Middle East Peace
A joint Israeli-Palestinian coalition of organizations who work in different ways towards peaceful resolutions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
U.S.-based think tank studying U.S. foreign affairs. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict page offers study and analysis into US policy with regard to US involvement and policy in the region.
International non-governmental (not-for-profit) organization that investigates and reports on human rights abuses all around the world. The website includes resources for educators seeking to teach about taking action in defense of human rights.
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights
Office of the United Nations with a mandate to investigate, report on and act to end human rights violations around the world.
Standards
Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including analyzing how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over the course of a text
Evaluate authors' differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors' claims, reasoning, and evidence.
Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.
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