Classroom Based Assessment for Contemporary Global Studies: Causes of Conflict: Research and Persuasive Writing
As you research a conflict from the past or present and analyze it from historical and economic perspectives, use the OPAC (On line public access catalog) to locate books and materials in the BHS library. Remember to type in your topic or subject first and then click on the appropriate icon like keyword, subject, title or author.
Here are some resources both print and electronic from the Bremerton High School Library that may help you with this Classroom Based Assessment:
Ref 300 CQ Researcher
Ref 918 Wor The World Book Encyclopedia of People and Places
297 Islam: a short history
305.48 Price of Honor: Muslim women lift the veil of silence on the Islamic World
305.8 Cultures in Conflict: the Arab-Israeli conflict
305.8 Jen East Africa/Southern Africa
320.956 Mid The Middle East: Opposing Viewpoints
949.742 Bla Bosnia: Fractured Region
956 Spe Islamic States in Conflict
956.05 The Middle East
956.073 All War in the Gulf
956.6 Bod Kurdistan: Region Under Seige
956.7044 Nar The War Against Iraq
958.1Afghanistan
960 Afr Africa: Opposing Viewpoints
Here are links to the Periodical Databases that will be most useful for this assignment:
ELibrary
http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/elib/do/search
Proquest
http://www.proquest.com
Digital Learning Commons and access to SIRS Researcher
http://www.learningcommons.org
Primary Sources
http://www.wlma.org/admin/editor/assets/primary_online.doc Primary Sources Online
http://pio.wsd.wednet.edu/library/primarysources.html List of Primary Sources Online
http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/%7Espjvweb/primary.html Valenza Primary Sources
http://www.archives.gov/education/index.html National Archives
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ American Memory
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/west.html Repository of Primary Sources
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ Eyewitness to History
Essential Questions and Thesis Information
http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/questbrain.html Question Brainstormer
http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/probsolv.htm Essential Questions-Bellingham
http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html#anchor173647 Questioning Tool Kit-Jamie McKenzie
http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/thesisgenerator.html Thesis Generator
http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/thesis.htm What is a thesis?
http://www.ozline.com/electraguide/thesis.html Thesis Builder
Citation Information
http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/index.php?page=citeSources OSLIS CitationMaker
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ OWL Writing Lab
http://citationmachine.net/ Citation Machine
http://www.easybib.com/ Easy Bib
Look below for other useful links
World History:Causes of Conflict:http://schoolnotes.com/98337/bhscba3.html
