BONUS: GROWINGUP ONLINE - What is the video trying to say? Respond with 250 word typed reflection. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/view/main.html
ANTI WAR Huge resource of articles and sites to explore movements to end war. Make sure to include 1st page of source with your BONUS. http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Warfare_and_Conflict/Specific_Conflicts/Iraq/Anti-War_Movement/
NEW INTERNATIONALIST: Go to the list on the side and click on Back issues. An excellent magazine with amazing back issues on numerous social justice issues. Go here and click on one of the links to issues that interest you and write a 250 word reflection - there are MANY to choose. Make sure to INCLUDE a copy of the article you choose to write on. http://www.newint.org/index4.html
GLOBALIZATION: There are four readings (Four Bonuses) at this site to choose from. Read the article and information for each topic and answer the questions at the bottom of each to complete each bonus activity. http://www.teachablemoment.org/high/globalization2.html#1
CONSORTIUM NEWS: Some more alternative sources for news. Get the view from the other side and the underside. Go here and click on one of the links to issues that interest you and write a 250 word reflection - there are MANY to choose. Make sure to INCLUDE a copy of the article you choose to write on. http://www.consortiumnews.com/index.html
BONUS: Catholic Social Teaching. Get the highlights of more than a century of church documents relating to social teaching. Choose on of the documents, read it for its major points and then write a 250 word reflection. http://www.osjspm.org/social_teaching_documents.aspx
BONUS: The effects of War and Militarism on the Environment. Read article and give a 250 word typed reflection. http://www.seac.org/militarism/connection
BONUS: Compare and contrast the two traditions of Just War theory and PACIFICISM as explained by Walter Wink in his article on the Nonviolence of Jesus; repond in a 250 word reflection typed. http://www.cres.org/star/_wink.htm
BONUS: Read and discuss this article which highlights the limits of media and its use of propaganda in coverage of the war on Iraq. Type a 250 word reflection. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/med-m25.shtml
BONUS: Comfort Women and the trafficing of women in war. Read how women were taken as virtual sex slaves in one armed conflict and reflect how woman are treated generally in times of war in a typed 250 word reflection. http://www.religioustolerance.org/sla_japa.htm
BONUS: John Kerry's Statment regarding the Vietnam War. Read and discuss what he had to say. http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html
BONUS: Alternative Links. Go here and click on one of the links to issues that interest you and write a 250 word reflection - there are MANY to choose. Make sure to INCLUDE a copy of the article you choose to write on. http://www.populist.com/links.html
BONUS: ANTI WAR. An article critical of the Bush administration's glib attitude to the soldiers who are dying in IRAQ - the day before Remeberance Day 2005. http://www.antiwar.com/sperry/?articleid=7973
BONUS: Great Article about the present struggle of peace advocates and how the US government has attempted to silence and punish those who dissent to their policy on the war. http://vitw.org/archives/994#more-994
BONUS: SOAW - School of the Americas Watch, or WHINSEC "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security ooperation", profiles various countries - look at these and the main website and discuss why this school needs to be shut down. http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=343
BONUS: The Truman Show. Read the info at this sight and click on the link titled: The Meaning of the Truman Show Read this a write a 250 word reflection. http://www.transparencynow.com/truman.htm