Grade+6+Peace+&+Conflict+Model+Unit

Summative Assessment: Student Prompts
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 * Writing Promp:** [[file:writing prompt student version.doc]]

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 * Representing Prompt:[[file:respresenting prompt student version.doc]]**

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 * Speaking Prompt: [[file:speaking prompt student version.doc]]**

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 * The Peace People (delcaration)
 * The Peace People (home page)
 * Canadian Museum for Human Rights

The following is a listing of print resources that fit within the multi-genre unit of **Peace and Conflict** to use with your students. The links will take you to book reviews and author sites.
 * **One Peace: True Stories of Young Activists** (Janet Wilson)
 * **Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide** (Icy Smith)
 * **Crazy Man** (Pamela Porter)
 * **Mina’s Spring of Colours** (Rachna Gilmore) Teacher Guide]
 * **When the Horses Ride By : Children in the Times of War** (Eloise Greenfield)
 * **Memorial** (Gary Crew & Shaun Tan)
 * **Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom** (Chris Van Wyk)
 * **My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary** (Nadja Halilbegovich)
 * **Yeny and the Children for Peace** (Michelle Mulder)
 * **Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak** (Deborah Ellis)
 * **Peacekeepers** (Dianne Linden)
 * **Fight for Justice** (Lori Saigeon) Note: Willow Award Nominee
 * **The Nine Lives of Travis Keating** (Jill MacLean) Note: Willow Award Nominee

Other web links and resources for **Peace and Conflict**:
 * The Peace Tree Day
 * The Peace Tree - information on Peace Tress and the film, Peace Tree.
 * The Peace Tree (film trailer from National Film Board)
 * Newseum ( a site that dispalys news headlines from newspapers around the world)
 * The Art of Teaching Reading: The Peace Book
 * [|Free Hugs Campaign]
 * [|Free the Children]
 * [|Flash Mob on Peace]

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= Peace and Conflict Resources :=


 * The Peace People (delcaration)
 * The Peace People (home page)
 * Canadian Museum for Human Rights

The following is a listing of print resources that fit within the multi-genre unit of **Peace and Conflict** to use with your students. The links will take you to book reviews and author sites.
 * **One Peace: True Stories of Young Activists** (Janet Wilson)
 * **Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide** (Icy Smith)
 * **Crazy Man** (Pamela Porter)
 * **Mina’s Spring of Colours** (Rachna Gilmore) Teacher Guide]
 * **When the Horses Ride By : Children in the Times of War** (Eloise Greenfield)
 * **Memorial** (Gary Crew & Shaun Tan)
 * **Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom** (Chris Van Wyk)
 * **My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary** (Nadja Halilbegovich)
 * **Yeny and the Children for Peace** (Michelle Mulder)
 * **Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak** (Deborah Ellis)
 * **Peacekeepers** (Dianne Linden)
 * **Fight for Justice** (Lori Saigeon) Note: Willow Award Nominee
 * **The Nine Lives of Travis Keating** (Jill MacLean) Note: Willow Award Nominee

Other web links and resources for **Peace and Conflict**:
 * The Peace Tree Day
 * The Peace Tree - information on Peace Tress and the film, Peace Tree.
 * The Peace Tree (film trailer from National Film Board)
 * Newseum ( a site that dispalys news headlines from newspapers around the world)
 * The Art of Teaching Reading: The Peace Book