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Human Rights

  • First Term

    Citizenship (45 minutes per week)

    Week 1

    • Teacher elicits a definition of Human Rights. Students also try to explain the meaning of Universal.
    • Students watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9_IvXFEyJo -  “Everybody - We are all born free” and try to find the answers to the following questions:

     

    1. When was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights written?
    2. Who wrote it?
    3. Why was it written?
    4. How many articles are there?

     

    • Teacher hands out little booklets with the 30 articles for the students to have a quick look.
    •  Teacher hands out each pair of students a Portuguese newspaper and asks them to go through it and select 1 or 2 stories where they think a Human Right is being violated. 

    Week 2 & 3

    • Students tell the rest of the class about the stories they picked from the newspapers the previous week and explain why they chose them.
    • Students go back to the Human Rights booklets and find the one being violated in the stories / events they reported.
    • Students suggest ways to prevent the violation of such rights.
    • Teacher tells students about the 66th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration on 10th December and suggests the making of a mural with the 30 articles.
    • Class is divided into pairs and each pair is given 3 articles (20 students). Each pair has to read their 3 articles in more detail and come up with a small drawing to illustrate it.
    • Students (in pairs) write the simplified version of the 30 articles and illustrate them – this should be done in Portuguese and in English.      

    Week 4 & 5 (culminating on 10th December)

    • Students finish their work and prepare a mural with the 30 articles to display in the main hall of our school for everybody to see.
    • Next to it we put a "cake" made of card with 2 candles on top and the number 66 to commemorate the 66th anniversary of the writing of the UDHR on the 10th of December.
    • We cover our mural with some tape with the word "frágil", the Portuguese word for "fragile", to express our concern about how fragile people's rights seem to be at present. 

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