Lesson One

Intro - Human Rights, Democracy and Globalization

Key Issues
What are human rights?
How are globalization, human rights and democracy related?
To what extent does globalization affect quality of life and access to human rights?

Within this lesson students will...
- assess their roles and responsibilities in a globalizing world.
- recognize and appreciate the impact of globalization on the quality of life of individuals and communities.
- recognize and and appreciate the importance of human rights in determining quality of life.

Lesson

U4L1 Power Point

Watch the following tutorial:

Assignment

Read portions of Chapter Thirteen pages 305-306 and 311 and 316-320.
Open the following Word document and complete the assignment within (submit your answers directly into the word document).  Label it SS10U4L1.surname.
Submit this assignment using the Assignment Folder for U4L1Human Rights.

Resources

United Nations and Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Economic freedom map
ENFO
Tap Tips
Water Conservation
Eco Justice
Freedom of the Press

Conclusion

This lesson and the next three lessons will focus on the roles and responsibilities of global citizenship. Students will continue to explore, analyze and evaluate various perspectives regarding how they, as citizens, should respond to globalization.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world - indeed it is the only thing that ever does.  
                       Margaret Meade

Students will be evaluated based on the individual assignments outlined in Section 3 above.
Due dates are listed within the Schedule. Please refer to this for all updates.