Rainforests

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Your library catalogue provides a suite of on line resources that are reliable and accurate. From the library page click on library catalogue/e-resources. Choose Encyclopaedia Britannica or Library Webs/Life Sciences and search for rainforests.

Wikipedia – the free on line encyclopaedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Rainforest

Rainforest Information Centre

http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/background/causes.htm
http://www.forest.nsw.gov.au/publication/forest_facts/rainforest/default.asp


Beware – when you do a google search (or any other search engine) check the URL – who put this site up? How reliable or biased is their information going to be?

Don’t forget to reference all web sites used! Include the URL in your bibliography

YEAR 8 ENGLISH - MULTICULTURALISM

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Who is a Refugee?

Throughout history, whenever people have fled from war or persecution, there have been refugees. However, it wasn't until 1951, just after World War Two, that the international community formally recognised the status of these people. The United Nations approved the Convention outlining the Status of Refugees on July 28, 1951 at a special conference set up to deal with the one million people left homeless by the war.

Article One of the Convention defines a refugee as:
A person who is outside his/her country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well founded fear of persecution because of his/her race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group of political opinion;and is unable or unwilling to avail himself/herself of the protection of that country, or to return there, for fear of persecution.

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/realappeal/refugeestories/default.htm

READ SOME TRUE STORIES ABOUT REFUGEES

Australia
REFUGEE ACTION COMMITTEE
http://www.refugeeaction.org/stories/refugee_stories.htm

Naina’s story - The daily life of a child in detention (2003)
http://www.refugeeaction.org/inside/naina.htm

AKBAR'S STORY (2003)
http://www.refugeeaction.org/stories/akbar.htm

Mother pleads for her son's release
http://www.refugeeaction.org/stories/mother.htm

UK
Published by the Refugee Communities History Project
http://www.refugeestories.org/

Australian Refugee Association Inc.
http://www.ausref.net/

Look for the multicultural genre sticker on the fiction collection for more stories.

Middle Ages

What was it really like to live in the Middle Ages?

Choose a person to get to know in a Medieval Village

Exploring the Middle Ages