1. October 21,2013

2. The Human Rights Abuse Project
English 11
The Human Rights Abuse Project
Look at how far we have come…
1. Driving Question/Literature Text Readings
…working as a group
2. Problem Statement
…Peer Evaluation #1
3. Library Research
4. Annotated Bibliography
…Peer Evaluation #2

3. So… What’s next?

4. The Literature Review The Literature Review consists of THREE essays…
Historical Account of an Abuse of Human Rights
(Captivity, Slavery, Holocaust)
2. Current Instances of a Similar Event(s)
Connection to Literature

5. Essay #1… The Historical Account
Q: Who writes this essay? A: The Historian Q: Who proofs this essay? A: The Manager/Editor and the Visual Technical Expert Q: What’s in this essay? A: The historical essay provides data, information about the history of the abuse your group is researching, either captivity, slavery, or the holocaust.

6. Essay #2… The Current Events Report
Q: Who writes this essay? A: The Current Events Reporter Q: Who proofs this essay? A: The Manager/Editor and the Visual Technical Expert Q: What’s in this essay? A: The current events report provides data, information about the recent instances of the abuse your group is researching.

7. Essay #3… The Literary Analysis
Q: Who writes this essay? A: The Literary Expert Q: Who proofs this essay? A: The Manager/Editor and the Visual Technical Expert Q: What’s in this essay? A: The literary analysis provides connections between the history of the abuse being research and how it was presented in literature. The literary expert can also correlate possible attitudes toward this type of human rights violation by the way it is depicted in literature.

8. The Literature Review Rubric
Highest Possible Grade of 69%....free of grammatical and convention errors
Historical Essay
1 Paragraph long
1 Quote correctly cited in the MLA style
Current Events Report
1Paragraphs long
Literary Analysis
1 Paragraphs long

9. The Literature Review Rubric
Highest Possible Grade of 79%....free of grammatical and convention errors
Historical Essay
3 Paragraphs long
1 Quote correctly cited in the MLA style
1 Paraphrases correctly cited in the MLA Style
Current Events Report
Literary Analysis
1 Paragraphs long

10. The Literature Review Rubric
Highest Possible Grade of 89%....free of grammatical and convention errors
Historical Essay
5 Paragraphs long
2 Quotes correctly cited in the MLA style
1 Paraphrases correctly cited in the MLA Style
Current Events Report
Literary Analysis
3 Paragraphs long
1 Quotes correctly cited in the MLA style

11. The Literature Review Rubric
Highest Possible Grade of 100%....free of grammatical and convention errors
Historical Essay
5 Paragraphs long
3 Quotes correctly cited in the MLA style
2 Paraphrases correctly cited in the MLA Style
Current Events Report
Literary Analysis
3 Paragraphs long
2 Quotes correctly cited in the MLA style
1 Paraphrases correctly cited in the MLA Style

12. The Literature Review Rubric
Highest Possible Grade of 125%....free of grammatical and convention errors
Historical Essay
7 Paragraphs long
5 Quotes correctly cited in the MLA style
3 Paraphrases correctly cited in the MLA Style
Current Events Report
Literary Analysis
5 Paragraphs long
3 Quotes correctly cited in the MLA style
1 Paraphrases correctly cited in the MLA Style

13. YOU CAN DO THIS… :-) Get into your groups and make a plan…
Ask these questions…
Do you have enough resources to write the essays you want to write?
Do you know how you are relating the Driving Question to the history of the human rights abuse you are researching?
The Driving Question …. “In light of what we have learned from our readings, the recent events in Syria, and the challenges with the prison systems in California, what can we, as citizens of Novato do to improve how fellow humans are treated throughout our global community?
3. Do you know how you are going to relate history to current events?
4. Do you know how literary works written possibly shaped attitudes toward these events?