Homestudy+T3Wk8

Task One: Spelling
Rule: 'dis' can also mean not.

1. Find 10 words not in the spelling lists that begin with dis and write them in sentences that show you understand their meaning.

2. Complete learning your spelling words for this week. Remember to get your notebook signed each night.

Task Two: Explanations
Click on this link and follow the instructions to create your own explanation. http://dlo.knowledge.net.nz/dlos/L1283/index.html Print it out, glue it into your homestudy book and then label the different langage features of an explanation. Click on the link below and complete the mission. Write down the human rights you used along the way to help you solve the different issues you were faced with. http://dlo.knowledge.net.nz/dlos/L1348/index.html
 * Task Three: Inquiry**

Refugees**
 * Task Four: Inquiry

Imagine that there are many asylum seekers waiting to have their cases heard in New Zealand.
 * || ===**Can you decide?**===

Look at the 5 case studies below. If you could allow just one person to be allowed to stay in New Zealand as a refugee, who would you choose? Why? Write a paragraph of 6-8 sentences giving clear reasons for your choice. ||  ||   ||   || Gender: || Female ||
 * || Case Study 1 || Name: || Furdos Ali ||
 * Date of Birth: || 12 October 1979 (age 26) ||
 * Country of Birth: || Iraq ||

Reason for application for refugee status: **War in Iraq** How has it affected the applicant? || Case Study 2 || Name: || Khan Mohammed ||
 * **Hometown destroyed by bombs; very dangerous situation.**
 * **Mother and father killed in bombing; brother missing.**
 * **Unsafe for applicant to continue living in Iraq as lone female.**
 * 
 * Gender: || Male ||
 * Date of Birth: || 21 January 1988 (aged 17) ||
 * Country of Birth: || Afghanistan ||

Reason for application for refugee status: **War and drought in Afghanistan** How has it affected the applicant?
 * **Forced to move to Pakistan 5 years ago when he was only 12.**
 * **Supports his family by scavenging paper and plastic bags for 10-12 hours a day to be resold, earning only 50-60cents a day.**
 * **Wants the chance to have a better life and to provide well for his family so that they no longer go hungry.**
 * || Case Study 3 || Name: || Alaa Hamdan ||
 * Gender: || Female ||
 * Date of Birth: || 12 August, 1990 (aged 15) ||
 * Country of Birth: || West Bank (territory) ||

Reason for application for refugee status: **Fighting and poverty** How has it affected the applicant?
 * **Alaa has spent her entire life in a refugee camp alongside 250,000 others. There is no electricity and poor sanitation.**
 * **Conditions are very bad for her health and she has night blindness from malnutrition (lack of Vitamin A).**
 * **Alaa goes to school in her camp; she studies hard and wants the chance to live a normal life in a new country.**
 * || Case Study 4 || Name: || Abdullah Hamim ||
 * Gender: || Male ||
 * Date of Birth: || 7 March 1992 (aged 13) ||
 * Country of Birth: || Sudan ||

Reason for application for refugee status: **Fighting and ethnic cleansing** How has it affected the applicant?
 * **Abdullah was separated from his parents when they were forced out of their homes by attackers who burned down their village.**
 * **Since then he spent over a year searching for his parents in different IDP camps; he finally found an Uncle who told him his parents were dead.**
 * **Abdullah is orphaned and homeless; even when the war ends, he has nothing to go home to.**
 * || Case Study 5 || Name: || Khadeeja Moosa ||
 * Gender: || Female ||
 * Date of Birth: || 24 July 1958 (aged 47) ||
 * Country of Birth: || Maldives ||

Reason for application for refugee status: **Natural disaster (tsunami)** How has it affected the applicant?
 * **Khadeeja watched her entire family get swept away by the tsunami.**
 * **Her home and the hospital she worked in have both been destroyed.**
 * **The psychological effect on Khadeeja has been great; she has two brothers in New Zealand who want her to live with them so that they can help her recover.**
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