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Social Justice Project
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WELCOME! This webpage was created to help you research information for your Social Justice Project.  We want you to get the best information as efficiently as possible. Using this page will help you to research and write a paper that will help your class choose your 8th Grade Confirmation Service Project. Good Luck!
Assignment Objectives Evaluating Web Sites Topic Links Other Resources  Citing your Sources Homework Help

Assignment Objectives
As you search for information and write your paper, remember the objectives of this assignment:

  1. To learn about social justice.
  2. To find individuals, organizations, and agencies that work to correct social injustice.
  3. To suggest how you and your classmates can participate in a service project related to social injustice.

Evaluating Web Sites
Not everything that you read on the Internet is useful! A web site should be current, accurate, unbiased, and written by someone who is an expert in the topic on that site. Go to the following sites to learn more about good web sites.
Quality Information Checklist
Checklist for Evaluating Web Resources
Complete a Web Page Evaluation Sheet for each site that you use in your Internet research.
This will benefit you in two ways:

  1. You will be able to determine if the web site is useful and appropriate for this assignment.
  2. The information on the evaluation sheet can be used in the bibliography of your research paper. All of the citation requirements are included in the evaluation sheet.

Topic Links
Click on your topic to find appropriate links.

Poverty Homelessness Hunger
Poverty USA (Catholic Campaign for Human Development) National Coalition for the Homeless Bread For the World
Children in Poverty Homes for the Homeless Food Research and Action Center
Share Our Strength Hunger and Homelessness America's Second Harvest

Literacy Domestic Abuse Child Abuse
National Center for Family Literacy Domestic Violence Handbook Child Abuse: Helpguide
Adult Literacy Services Nebraska Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Coalition Child Abuse
Literacy Center for the Midlands Safe Horizon Domestic Violence Shelter Tour and Information Childhelp USA

Old Age Mental Illness Prejudice
Administration on Aging The Nation's Voice on Mental Illness Anti-Defamation League
Elder Abuse - Aging and Life Course National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Understanding Prejudice
National Institute of Aging National Mental Health Association  

Disabilities Chemical Dependency Imprisonment
Medline Plus: Disabilities Straight Facts about Drugs and Alcohol Prison Activist Resource Center
Center for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute on Drug Abuse Catholic Social Teaching
Children with Disabilities Join Together Online: Substance Abuse The Justice System
 Immigration  
Justice for Immigrants  
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops  
Catholic Relief Services  

Other Resources
Websites are just one of the ways you can get information for your social justice project. Be sure you investigate these other valuable sources:

Encyclopedias (Information Center printed sets) Grolier OnlineElectric Library Database

Information Center Vertical File Information Center Information Plus books

Magazines and Newspapers Guest Speakers

Almanacs (print and online) Community Experts

Citing your Sources

Your research paper will need a bibliography, which is a list of sources from which you obtained your information. You will cite your sources in the bibliography. It's very important that you give credit to the sources that provided information for your paper. You need to be accurate and follow a set form when you write your bibliography. It is possible that your teacher will be checking your citations for validity and accuracy. A word of advice: Always record the information necessary for citations while you are taking notes. It's very difficult and time-consuming to have to go back through your sources to look for citation information. Here is how you should cite an Internet source for this research project:

Author (if any), title, name of web site (if different from title), the word Online, Internet address (URL), date the web site was found.
Example:
Smith, John. "Breaking the Cycle of Abuse." Child Abuse Prevention Home Page. [Online]. Available: http://www.agcom/news.htm. August 5, 2004.

To see explanations and examples for citing other sources see < Guide for Citing Sources.

Homework Help

Homework Center
How to Write a Research Paper - This site will take you through nine steps of writing a research paper, from establishing your topic to proofreading your final draft.

Taking Notes and A Statement on Plagiarism
These two sites will help you avoid plagiarizing information that you find on the Internet or in print. Plagiarism is serious; know how to avoid it!

Guide to Grammar and Style
If you need some help with grammar (ex. verb agreement, punctuation (ex. how to use quotation marks) or style, check out this site.

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Assignment Objectives Evaluating Web Sites Topic Links Other Resources Citing your Sources Homework Help

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