Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Instructional Objective(s):
The learner will describe, compare, and contrast human rights violations in three
specific setting: The West Indies c. 1530, a slave market in 1846, and the
Maidenak concentration camp in 1944.
State Content Standard / Benchmark / Grade Level Expectation:
History Content Standard: All students will evaluate key decisions made at
critical turning points in history by assessing their implications and long-term
consequences.
Long-Term Unit Objective:
The learner will evaluate the responses of individuals to historic violations of
human dignity involving discrimination, persecution, and crimes against
humanity.
Yesterdays Lesson: The class reviewed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as
well as passages from the Helsinki Accord.
Tomorrows Lesson: The class will watch and examine a video of a network
correspondents report from Kosovo in June 1999. They will also review efforts of global
organizations.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Behaviors Needed:
Skills:
- Prior experience analyzing historical documents
- Uses contextual clues to answer questions and gather information
Concepts:
- Human rights
Behaviors:
- Can work collaboratively as a team
- Can communicate effectively with each other
- Can follow written and verbal directions
Expert Group Students who read the same text will get into a group and discuss
what they found.
They will take notes as they analyze the text.
Students are in charge of the discussion.