Subject: Language Arts / World Cultures
Topic: Human Rights
Description: Students explore human right issues to make connections from past to present to help develop perspectives. Students will read a novel and explore the human rights contexts and inferences. For example, students will explore apartheid, MLK and compare human rights in Africa. Students will research and create an expository essay in Pecha Kuchka format about the identified issues. Students will also create an original product to highlight their perspective of a human rights issue either from the novel or the country.
LA TEKS:
(17) Writing/Expository and Procedural Texts. Students write expository and procedural or work-related texts to communicate ideas and information to specific audiences for specific purposes. Students are expected to:(A) create multi-paragraph essays to convey information about a topic that:
(i) present effective introductions and concluding paragraphs
(ii) guide and inform the reader’s understanding of key ideas and evidence
(iii) include specific facts, details, and examples in an appropriately organized structure
(iv) use a variety of sentence structures and transitions to link paragraphs
World Cultures TEKS: (9A) The student is expected to: describe and compare examples of limited and unlimited governments such as constitutional (limited) and totalitarian (unlimited); (9C) The student is expected to: identify and describe examples of human rights abuses by limited or unlimited governments such as the oppression of religious, ethnic, and political groups
Technology TEKS: (1B) The student uses creative thinking and innovative processes to construct knowledge, generate new ideas, and create products. The student is expected to create original works as a means of personal or group expression; (2) Communication & Collaboration. The student collaborates and communicates both locally and globally using digital tools and resources to reinforce and promote learning; (6) The student demonstrates a thorough understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations.
4Cs: Creativity, Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking
Resources:
- Children’s March on Birmingham Video (Primary source interviews with kids who were there)
- TED Ed Talk on Human Rights http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-are-the-universal-human-rights-benedetta-berti
- SIRS Database: http://sks.sirs.com/webapp/results?res=Y&gov=Y&ren=Y&keyword=human%20rights&type=sub&detail=Y&pos=1
- Novel Choices: Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan; The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis; Number the Stars by Lowis Lowry; Nothing But the Truth by Avi; Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang; A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (TAG); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain(TAG); Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (TAG); The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (TAG)
Device Type: Chromebook, Laptop
Other: Makerspace activity for original product