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=** Surviving Without Knowing How to Read and Write **=
 * ====If you are reading this, you probably know how to read====

There still is HOPE.
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 * Unit 4 Reflection Name: Abby Kwon Global Issues Reflection
 * Enduring Understanding: Responsible choices are part of being a global citizen.
 * Essential Question: How does one participate in global citizenship and why is it important?
 * 1) Based upon your prior knowledge and current studies develop a response to the essential question that includes topic sentences and details with examples. Place your response below using as much space as you need to form a complete answer.

To be a global citizen, you have to caring, know, and by act. For example, 1 billion of this world population can’t go to school and don’t know how to read and write. One participates in global citizenship by first caring, and thinking how I can help, and then learning about the problem. That way, they will know how to help and “act” for the illiterates. I wanted to know how serious illiteracy is throughout the world, and researched about the clear definition of illiteracy, and how I can help illiterates as well. I found out it’s not hard to support, so I got permission from my mom, and I will soon donate money to an organization who gives help to children who can’t go to school.

Being a global citizen is important. All the people matter, and just because some people are poor,, they shouldn’t be treated unequally. Think about it- if you were the person who needs help just like 1 billion other people in the world, how would you feel? Wouldn’t you want someone to help you and take care of you? Most important of all, to be a global citizen, and to be a better person, everyone should care for each other. It affects all of us, too. The more poor there are, the poor this world is going to be. Therefore, “real” global citizens should care, know, and act.
 * 1) Tomorrow you will be presenting the research process to grade 5 students. You will need to explain the purpose of our studies. Think about your learning and make a list of those things that you discovered to be useful to you as a researcher/learner.
 * metacognition
 * instagrook
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">graphs/charts
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">brainstorming(inspiration doc) ||

Include notes about your reasoning for your choices in red || This book helped me to learn more about girls around the world who doesn't get the an opportunity to go to school and get educated. It explains about girls who are forced to get married instead of being educated, and also talks about a girl who had to cut her hair because she wanted to go to  school. There are some quotes from these girls that made me feel sorry for them. Quote from the book: "I felt doomed to farm in the field all my life and marry early like the other girls in the village."
 * (P) Put brainstorm here.
 * What I Know Inspiration document || [[image:Screen_shot_2012-05-14_at_2.20.54_PM.png width="478" height="423"]] ||
 * (P) Broaden Your Knowledge
 * Think about:
 * Books
 * Encyclopedias
 * Online Articles
 * Websites
 * Images
 * Videos
 * Statistics
 * Charts
 * Data Bases

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112734/page5.htm This site was very easy for me to see better than any other site because it was for kids. I didn't have trouble reading it. It was also organized nicely in boxes. It included some interesting facts and important ones. Not only facts, but it had causes of illiteracy. It was probably the most useful site of all because it had the main things I needed to know about illiteracy. This is the screenshot of the brainstorm of cause of illiteracy from the site;

http://www.sil.org/literacy/litfacts.htm This is site is a official site of international global issue, so I can trust on the information. It includes information from UNESCO, too. As I was reading notes listed, I was again shocked by the fact that women makes two-thirds of all illiterates. Thinking about girls who are not permitted to go to school just because they were born as female made me sad. And I also noticed that a lot of things I research relates to women's rights. Quote from the book; In all developing countries, the percentage of children aged 6-11 not attending school is 15 percent. In the least developed countries, it is 45 percent.(UNESCO 1998)

http://www.mapsofworld.com/thematic-maps/world-illiteracy-map.htm This map which I got it from a site is very useful because on the map, the rate of illiteracy of each area is colored. Area that is colored with green has the highest percent of people who are illiterate. I can clearly sea Africa is the most illiterate country, and some part of Asia, and South America as well. This helps me to focus more on African region, and southern part of Asian region when I'm researching about illiteracy. Quote from the site: "World literacy statistics show that Africa has the largest number of countries with 60% of illiterate people."

http://acr.hrschool.org/mainfile.php/0197/367/ This site explained about Asian children not getting education and becoming illiterates. The most surprising thing I learned from this site would be It had some complicated vocabulary, but there were some really good information I needed to know in order to broaden my knowledge. Quote from this site: "Illiteracy is directly related to poverty and underdevelopment, circumstances that force millions of children to leave school before they become fully literate and work in conditions where they are easily exploited."

__Equal To All__: This book helped me to study about the causes and has interviews of children who can't go to school. After reading this book, I felt very lucky that I'm able to go to school, and learn. One of the causes of illiteracy was poverty. Because they didn't have money, they couldn't go to school- they had to work instead. Even though, they were able to go to school, most of them didn't. The reason is that they have siblings to take care of. Especially around Africa, and some other poor countries around, the rate of illiteracy is higher. Quote from the book: "There are 69 kids in the class, but most of them don't come to school everyday."

This circle graph showed clearly which area has the highest illiteracy rate so it was really easy for me to see. I wanted to find the illiteracy chart of 2012, however, I failed on finding it. Even though, this chart is based on the year 2000 to 2004, because I already knew that illiteracy rate is getting higher, it didn't really matter. I found out that India was the highest(33.8%), and the rest of the world was about 29.7%, meaning that during 2000 to 2004, the illiteracy rate was the most highest in India.

Universal Education: I found this pdf document on a website. It was very useful because it was very detailed then any other sources I found. Also, all the information there was based on UN(United Nations), so I could trust it. It explained about what causes kids not to go to school, and the effects of war, and natural disasters. It gave a sustainable solution which I found was very interesting to read. There were some information that was new for me. Quote from the document: War, genocide, and natural disasters also cause children to leave school. When families are driven out of their communities by one of these causes, they often end up in refugee camps or in an unfamiliar country or territory.



I created this graph in a site called culturegram.com. I chose 4 poor countries to compare which were Afganistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan. It automatically created a graph of total adult literacy of ages 15 and over. This graph was useful because I could see that of all the countries I chose, Indonesia had the highest percent of literacy. The one thing that I didn't like about it is that it didn't show the percent of illiteracy.

__The Kid's Guide to Service Projects__ This book was useful because it explained about the problem of children not getting education and different solutions solving illiteracy of children. Below are examples of solutions from the book. -Hold a used book or computer sale. Donate the money to a literacy group. -Collect used book or computers to give to a hospital, senior care facility, shelter, or preschool. -Collect books or fundraise to help donate books abroad. -Read aloud to a person who is visually impaired. Or read into a recording device. -Survey your communitry to learn how many people illiterate. Present your results to your school abroad, mayor or council, and legislator. Ask for action. -Organize a reading hour for children at your school or local library. Recruit friends to volunteer as readers. -Make simple reading and math flash cards for a preschool or childcare center. -Teach English, Spanish, or another language you know to a person who needs help learning. -Tutor other people in any skill or talent you have-from reading to dancing, playing an instrument, or playing a sport. I learned many ways that even I could do to make a change and support kids who can't get education. Not only I was able to learn a lot of information of the causes, and the rates of illiteracy, I was also able to learn ways that anyone could solve this global issue.

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/illiteracy-in-america-infographic_b51032 This site was very useful because it showed the percent of illiterates in U.S. I knew that U.S., is not one of the countries who have many illiterates, but in some areas there are. It showed few charts that actually explained better than words did. I noticed that in the Northern areas of U.S. has more illiterates than other areas of the country. A good news was that the average world illiteracy rate is getting lower- but this data wasn't based a particular area, but the whole world, so in some areas the percent could have increased, or decreased. Images from the website:

Pain of Illiteracy This video(link above-click "pain of illiteracy") was very useful because I was able to understand the pain of illiteracy just like the title, by watching this video. Before, I knew not able to read and write was painful, and it was terrible, however, because I've never experienced or saw people who are illiterate, I wasn't sure how it would feel. I also learned the importance of being able to read and write. After watching this video, I got the idea of my thesis statement.

http://theviewspaper.net/illiteracy-in-india/ I needed to know how serious illiteracy is in other countries, then I found this site. It was really helpful, however, there were some hard vocabularies, so I made sure I understood everything. Of course, I knew that India was one of the countries who has a lot of illiterates(non-literates). This site was very detailed so I was able to get a lot of information from it. Quote from the site: "India is developing but at a very slow rate, this is not the fault of a corrupt government; it is due to this problem of illiteracy only." After reading this quote, I noticed that illiteracy is quite a huge problem for the country. || Add to original Inspiration or do another. Record your metacognition using the note feature of Inspiration. || || (thesis) that clearly shows your research. || ** My Thesis Statement: Value your education because without one you will never survive this world. ** || researching. //.// || || resources. || 1.declaration of the rights of the child 2.poverty, functional illiteracy 3.compulsory education 4.semiliterate 5.analphabetic 6.unfairness 7.blocking access to education 8.discrimination 9.inequality 10.global compaign for education 11.education 12.illiteracy causes iliteracy effects 13.working children 14.not enough teachers because lack of fair wages so kids can't go to school 15.cultural illiteracy 16.lack of illiteracy within the family causes illiteracy. 17.learning disabilities 18.undeniable relationship between poverty and illiteracy 19.child labor causes illiteracy-physically, morally, mentally, or by blocking access to education. 20.universal primary education 21.Educating girls advances development for all. 22.ignorant in a particular subject or activity 23.lacking the literacy necessary for coping with most jobs and many everyday situations 24.inability to read or write 25.non-literate 26.the disadvantage of an illiterate education 27.one aim of public and compulsory education around the world 28.global illiteracy 29.the government's efforts to reduce //illiteracy// ||
 * (P) 2nd Time Around Brainstorm
 * (P) Define your topic: write a statement
 * (P) Form questions:
 * Form - What is it like?
 * Function - How does it work?
 * Causation - Why is it like it is?
 * Change - How is it changing?
 * Connection - How is it connected to?
 * Who, What? Where, When, Why,
 * How, What if? How? So what? || [[image:Screen_shot_2012-05-24_at_1.07.19_PM.png width="800" height="480"]] ||
 * (P) Make an outline of the areas you are
 * (P) Make a list of key words to locate
 * (L) Locate a variety of sources; evaluate 2 || [[image:Screen_shot_2012-05-24_at_10.27.36_PM.png width="720" height="458"]]

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 * (L) Select resources from your list & build

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anderson, Judith. Education for All. London : Sea-to-Sea Publications, 2012. Print.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anderson, Judith, and Christian Aid. An Equal Chance for Girls and Women. N.p.: A Milenium Development Goal, n.d. Print.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Boog, Jason. “Illiteracy in America.” Media Bistro. N.p., 7 May 2012. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/illiteracy-in-america-infographic_b51032>.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Expolitation: Child illiteracy and Child Labour.” ACR Weekly Newsletter. N.p., 24 Sept. 2012. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://acr.hrschool.org/mainfile.php/0197/367/>.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Facts about Illiteracy.” Library Think Quest. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112734/page5.htm>.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“International Literacy Day September 7, 2001 Washington, DC.” SIL International. SIL, n.d. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://www.sil.org/literacy/litfacts.htm>.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Narang, Bhuvan. “Illiteracy in India .” The Viewspaper. N.p., 6 Feb. 2009. Web. 26 May 2012. <http://theviewspaper.net/illiteracy-in-india/>.

__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PDF __

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Universal Primary Education.” Universal Education PDF. PDF file.

__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Map __

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“World Illiteracy Map .” Maps of World. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 May 2012. <http://www.mapsofworld.com/thematic-maps/world-illiteracy-map.htm>.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__Images used in the poster__

Zulu Child In Village. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 30 May 2012.

Earth, Topographic And Bathymetric Map. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 1 Jun 2012. [|http://quest.eb.com/images/132_1220847]

Indian Girl. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 1 Jun 2012. [|http://quest.eb.com/images/139_1996608]

Yanai, Sharon. Chinese kid wearing a hood. 11 Aug. 2011. Qoop. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 June 2012. <http://my.qoop.com/store/ Sharon-Yanai-4022844943146727/Chinese-kid-wearing-a-hood-by-Sharon-Yanai-qpps_429883274106226/>. ||