Civic+Ideals+&+Practices

"Institutions are the formal and informal political, economic, and social organizations that help us carry out, organize, and manage our daily affairs. Schools, religious institutions, families, government agencies, and the courts all play an integral role in our lives. They are organizational embodiments of the core social values of those who comprise them, and play a variety of important roles in socializing individuals and meeting their needs, as well as in the promotion of societal continuity, the mediation of conflict, and the consideration of public issues."

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Essential Question:
Throughout the whole world, all people are struggling with a new civil rights movement...the rise of human slavery. This is not just a "third world country" problem. There are thousands of slaves here in the United States as well as millions in other countries across the globe. Why is this a growing problem? What is being done to help the situation? What can you do to help?

Directions
Below you will find various primary sources that I have provided for you to help you to answer the essential question. Each source is provided digitally with a link to it's original website. To complete this unit, you must individually analyze each provided source using the APPARTS Template. You must also find four (4) more primary sources on your own and analyze them on the same paper as the provided sources. There are several online depositories of primary sources, a couple I recommend are http://digitalvaults.org and http://www.archives.gov. Be sure to put a link to your chosen primary sources on your APPARTS template so you can refer back to them when you are completing your blog post. As you are analyzing your sources, be sure to pay attention to what is //explicitly stated// (stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt) and what is //implied//( suggested but not directly expressed). This will help you to reach your best conclusions and answer the essential question.

Required Sources
Contemporary Slavery 

Free the Slaves Organization --be sure to visit all the pages on the website to learn more about what is being done media type="custom" key="25461902"

60,000 Slaves in the U.S.

Modern Day Slavery--be sure to click on many of the articles and pictures that are on the website

Human Trafficking--be sure to take the Tip 101 Training at the bottom of the page

Polaris Project

Human Trafficking Myths

10 Things You Didn't Know About Human Trafficking--warning...the article uses shock value to their words, saying "you do this," please understand I do not believe you are doing any of the things it says you are

Homeland Security

Staggering report exposes US sex trafficking