English 9: Inquiry into Injustice

Assignment:
​To choose a form of injustice in Canada and explore it through research. The final product will be a 5-paragraph essay outline with a clear thesis.
  • highlight and write out at least 2 important quotes you would use in your essay
  • use NoodleTools to record at least 3 sources of information
Questions to Consider:
  • Does injustice still happen in Canada today? Has it happened before? What are the types of injustice we have had/are still experiencing? How has the injustice been addressed, or has it? 
  • Where is it happening?  What is happening? What are/were the effects of this injustice on the people of the community?  What can be/should have been done to resolve it?  
Steps to completing your assignment:
  1. Choose your topic
  2. Research your topic
    • Use databases, websites you have evaluated, and/or print sources
    • Locate 2 important quotes you would use in an essay
    • Record your sources in NoodleTools
  3. Write a 5-paragraph essay outline with a clear thesis 
  4. Submit the final essay and works cited page for marking
Research: What To Use
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Books
  • Several books have been pulled and set aside for your use in the library.

Databases
  • Canadian Points of View Reference Centre (Ebsco): Click and search for thousands of essays related to environment, health, human rights, crime, race, technology, substance abuse, and many  more.
  • Canada in Context (Gale): Information on a broad range of Canadian topics, people, places and events written from a Canadian perspective. 
  • Points to the Past (Gale): A collection of primary sources accessed through 28 databases. Made up of nearly 200 million pages of digitized historical content. 
  • For either database: Begin with a search for your specific topic.  In some cases, you may need to add "Canada" to the topic to make sure it relates to Canada, i.e. "women's rights Canada".

Reliable Websites
There are several nonprofit and media sites which will provide you with access to their information and archives. The following are recommended:
    Searchable Nonprofit Websites:     Media Websites:
Other Websites
  • You may find certain topics are easier to find on the internet. As such, make sure you remember to evaluate any website using the CRAAP method.
  • Limit your searches to certain domains (.edu .gc .ca etc), and avoid .com
  • To help you get started, begin with the recommended links below. These have already been evaluated for you.
Poverty
Use databases or media sites
Radium Girls
Use databases, including Points to the Past
Gender Equity
Use databases or media sites
Slavery
​Use databases
Chinese Head Tax
​Use 
Canadian Museum for Human Rights & Ties That Bind
Asian Voting Rights 1908
Use Human Rights in Canada & The Canadian Encyclopedia
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Racism
​Use databases
Official Language Act, Manitoba 1890
Use The Canadian Encyclopedia
​Residential Schools
​Use print sources & databases
Bullying
Use Canada in Context
Women's Rights
Use print sources & 
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Service of Indigenous Canadians
​Use Canadian War Museum & The Canadian Encyclopedia
​WWII Jewish Immigration
Use ​The Canadian Encyclopedia
Fentanyl
​Use Canadian Points of View & media sites
Environmental
Use Greenr (check out the interactive world map)
Mental Health Funding 1980s
​Use Original Research & UBCMJ & other links
​Chinese Labourers
Use Ties That Bind
Internment Camps 1940s
​Use Canadian Museum for Human Rights & The Canadian Encyclopedia 
Service of Black Canadians
Use Veterans Affairs Canada & The Canadian Encyclopedia
Indian Act
Use print sources & databases
​Asian Immigration
​1907-1923
Use The Canadian Encyclopedia  
Genocide of First Nations People
Use databases & print sources
Immigration restrictions 1910
​Use Collections Canada & Human Rights in Canada
Anti-Asian Riots
​Vancouver 1907
​Use databases & UBC's Library 
"Enemy Aliens" 1942
Use Points to the Past & The Canadian Encyclopedia 
Refuse Nonwhite Customers, 1924-1939
Use Human Rights in Canada & The Canadian Encyclopedia​
Voting Rights 1939
Use Use Human Rights in Canada & The Canadian Encyclopedia
Wartimes Election Act
Use Human Rights in Canada & The Canadian Encyclopedia
Relocation of First Peoples
Use Points to the Past & The Canadian Encyclopedia 
Adoption "Scoop"
​1960s - 1980s
​Use Indigenous Foundations & The Canadian Encyclopedia ​
Pipeline and Land Rights
Use Greenr (Advanced Search)
Dominion Elections Act 1938
Use Human Rights in Canada & Canadian Museum of History