Keystone Academy Libraries: MS Language & Literature: Grade 7 Research Project

Possible Keywords

Some possible keywords for searches about refugees are: refugees, Afghanistan, Taliban, education, immigration, migration, education equality, inclusive education.

E-Books in the Middle School Library About Refugees

Tangled Threads by Pegi Deitz Shea
Call Number: FICTION E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780547533605
Publication Date: 2003-09-22
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park; Ginger Knowlton
Call Number: FIC PAR
ISBN: 9780547577319
Publication Date: 2011-10-04

Keystone Middle School Language & Literature Databases for Refugees Research Project

BrainPOP This link opens in a new window
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BrainPOP is an educational website with over 1,000 short animated movies, together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music.
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Feminism
Tim and Moby introduce you to the concept of feminism, the idea that men and women should have equal rights.
Malala
Tim and Moby introduce you to the extraordinary young woman who's been standing up for educational rights since she was a child.

Britannica School This link opens in a new window
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Britannica School provides general encyclopedia information. It is good for finding information about a topic when you begin research. It includes up-to-date information sources and allows you to move easily to material of higher or lower reading levels as needed.
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Afghanistan
The mountainous country of Afghanistan lies in south-central Asia.
Immigration
Immigration is the process of arriving in a non-native country with the purpose of residing there.
Indochinese War Refugees
Most immigrants from Indochina—a Southeast Asian region consisting of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos—arrived as refugees in the late 20th century.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
A leading humanitarian agency, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) works to protect the rights of refugees around the world.
Refugee
In the 2010s there were more than 25 million refugees worldwide—roughly one out of every 300 people on Earth.
Taliban
After a bloody war in Afghanistan that lasted more than a decade, a group intent on establishing a new society based on Islamic law came to power in the mid-1990s.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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Pakistani Refugees Caught Between Taliban, Army
Thousands of civilians fled from Pakistan Swat Valley today after authorities briefly lifted a curfew.
THE LONG ROAD HOME: Thousands of Afghans who fled their country are now returning
Another crisis is building in Afghanistan. Since the fall of the Taliban, refugees have been streaming back to their homeland.
UN calls women 'wasted asset' Key to prosperity for developing world lies in equality for women, report says
Poor countries should stop treating their women as no more than baby makers if they want to improve economic conditions quickly, a major United Nations study says.

Gale in Context: World History This link opens in a new window
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Gale In Context: World History is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. World History merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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Afghanistan
The word "Afghan" historically has been used to designate the members of an ethnic group also called the Pashtuns, but Afghanistan is multicultural and multiethnic.
Equality in education
In South Africa every child has a right to education.
Parlika, Soraya
Soraya Parlika was one of the foremost female activists in Afghanistan, even during the period in the 1990s when the country was under severe Islamic rule of the Taliban.
Refugees
Refugees are people who have fled their homelands and are unable to return to them.

Gale Power Search This link opens in a new window
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Use Gale Power Search to search all the Gale databases at once. Discover a collection of authoritative periodicals, scholarly journals, newspapers, and reference content.
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"I Had to Run for my Life"
More than 25 million refugees worldwide have been forced from their homes by violence or persecution. Marie Claire is one of them.
Backlog in deporting rejected refugees.
Nearly 50,000 people who have had their claims for asylum rejected after arriving by plane are still in Australia awaiting deportation, raising questions over the efficiency of our border controls.
Bringing Awareness to the Refugee Crisis
In January 2018, President Trump put into place the travel ban, suspending the United States' refugee resettlement program at a critical time when the number of displaced people worldwide was 68.5 million.
Refugees
The world is facing a global refugee crisis.

Newsela This link opens in a new window
Newsela is a reading tool that provides news articles designed to match a student's reading level.
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Countries Of The World: Afghanistan
Afghanistan is located in Central Asia with Iran to the west and Pakistan to the east.
Malala Yousafzai: "I can bring the change that I want to see”
Twenty-year-old Malala Yousafzai regularly speaks with world leaders.
Many refugee kids around the world do not go to school
Sixteen-year-old Abdul Rashid, a refugee from Afghanistan, has been in Greece for almost three years. Yet he will attend school for the first time in his new country this month.

WebPath Express This link opens in a new window
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Access 85,000+ trustworthy and relevant PreK-12 websites. Provides website content and age-appropriate results separated by grade level.
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Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
While the world has achieved progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment under the Millennium Development Goals (including equal access to primary education between girls and boys), women and girls continue to suffer discrimination and violence in every part of the world.
Gender equality
The Global Partnership for Education is committed to gender equality and to ensure all girls and boys enjoy equal education opportunities.
Girls’ education
Education is a universal right.
UNGEI: United Nations Girls' Education Initiative
UNGEI strives to promote girls’ education and gender equality through policy advocacy and support to governments and other development actors to deliver on the gender and education-related Sustainable Development Goals.

World Book Online This link opens in a new window
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World Book is a general information encyclopedia database with an American slant. Use this source to find out about your topic when you begin research.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, a nation in southeast Asia, has towering mountains, scorching deserts, fertile valleys, and rolling plains.
Education
Education is the process by which people acquire knowledge, skills, habits, values, or attitudes.
Refugee
Refugee is a person forced to flee from his or her country and find safety elsewhere.
Taliban
Taliban is a militant Sunni Islamic political group.

Websites about Refugees

'Immigration Act of 1917' Turns 100: America's Long History of Immigration Prejudice
One hundred years ago today (Feb. 5), Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917, the first legislation to dramatically limit immigration into the U.S.
Afghanistan
The word "Afghan" historically has been used to designate the members of an ethnic group also called the Pashtuns, but Afghanistan is multicultural and multiethnic.
Afghanistan
There are almost 2.5 million registered refugees from Afghanistan.
Afghanistan History, Language and Culture
History of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan Online
Afghanistan: The Friendliest Country in the World, Possibly the Universe.
The Afghan Refugee Crisis in 2016
Hundreds of thousands of documented and undocumented refugees returned to Afghanistan in 2016, joining more than one million internally displaced within the country.
Breaking down barriers to girls’ education
Girls need to be educated, healthy and safe. The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) works with partners to put gender equality at the heart of national education systems so that all girls have the chance to learn and thrive.
Calling for action to meet the unfulfilled promise of education for girls
Celebrities, youth activists and world leaders gathered yesterday at the UN Headquarters to put a spotlight on adolescent girls’ education.
Coming home to conflict: Why Afghan returnees say they were better off as refugees
Life as an Afghan refugee in Pakistan was never easy for Halima Bibi. But living in her own country has been even harder.
Costs of War: Refugees and Health
The insecurity that Iraqis, Afghans, and Pakistanis face extends far beyond the guns and blasts of the war.
The Culture And Customs Of Afghanistan
Various regions of Afghanistan have their own subcultures.
Daily life and social customs
Religion has long played a paramount role in the daily life and social customs of Afghanistan.
Four decades and counting: An urgent need to rekindle hope for millions of Afghan refugees
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Taliban
The Taliban are a hard-line radical Islamic militia consisting of Sunni Muslim Pashtuns who lived primarily in Afghanistan and then Pakistan.
UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.
What is a Refugee?
Refugees are people who are seeking a safe haven after being forced to flee violence, persecution and war.

NoodleTools

NoodleTools
NoodleTools is an online tool designed to help you plan, complete, and collaborate on projects. One of the most popular features is its citation creation application. This feature helps you create a bibliography in MLA or APA format. lt also helps you take notes and organize your paper. Log in with your school Google email address.