Have you ever thought about what is fair

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Have you ever thought about what is fair?

• There are a lot of people and ideas to think
  about!

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We have all experienced times when we felt we
were treated unfairly

• Parents not until this room is clean!
• Friends youre not my friend any more
• School stay in from lunch until the homework
  is done
• Athletics thats a foul!

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Ways to react to an unfair situation

• Negative punching or other physical contact,
  screaming, making fun, threatening, throwing a
  fit, talking back, cursing
• Positive talk to someone about it, just accept
  it, apologize if needed, walk away, make a
  speech, go off by yourself and blow off steam,
  use your words, know whats going on.

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• Take this quiz (it comes from UK so some of the
  words are spelled differently)

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Sometimes large groups of people have been
singled out and treated unfairly

• People were taken from Africa and sold as slaves.
• Native Americans were driven from their lands,
  forced to move to reservations, or killed.
• In Europe Jewish people were sent to prison camps
  and killed.

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Even in America!

• (Click on links)
• African-Americans and white Americans were kept
  separate in many public areas like schools and
  restaurants.
• Women were not permitted to own property or vote
  until 1920.

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You might want to learn more about these
groups (Click on the links)

• Japanese-Americans were held in camps on the
  United States during World War II.
• Immigrants and children were victims of unfair
  labor practices.

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People for Change
Rosa Parks, civil rights activist
Cesar Chavez, farm labor organizer
Olaudah Equiano, freed slave and abolitionist
Oseola McCarty, Philanthropist
Rasheed Peters,peace activitist
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Are there still people who are being treated
unfairly?

• Check out these websites
• Child labor and education
• Where is Sierra Leone?
• Trade between countries
• News about children from around the world
• What are some causes of hunger?
• What are the rights of a child?
• Planetpals
• My Hero
• www.salsa.net/peace/faces/index.html