Civil rights and human rights movements:

Agenda for today and tomorrow  TSW Learn key vocabulary and ideas about the civil and human rights movements by taking notes and working on a graphic organizer.  TSW learn about Rev. Martian Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela by going though stations and annotating a reading.

 Students with dark colored eyes sit on the right side of class  Students with light colored eyes sit on the left side of class.

4-2-1 Activity  Group up in small groups of 4 for the first page.  Second page split into groups of 2  By the end we should write a reflection by yourself

Why should there be human or civil rights?

Human rights  What are human rights? 2 minutes to talk to your group……..GO  It is a right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person.  What is a right?

Social Darwinism  The idea that white people evolved higher than colored people. It justified taking over their land.

Segregation  Separating a group of people based on their race.

People Fought against  Bigotry: intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.  Example:  Discrimination: The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially based on race, age, or sex.  Example:

 Work with your partner to answer what people fought against.  We will come back as a class to answer.

Civil Rights act of 1964  It outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.  It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities

The African charter on human and people’s rights  The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter) is an international human rights instrument that is intended to promote and protect human rights and basic freedoms in the African continent.  Oversight and interpretation of the Charter is the task of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, which was set up in 1987 and is now headquartered in Banjul, Gambia

Exit ticket  Write the last question by yourself and reflect on what you learned.  Ask more questions or write down what you think about the issue.