1. Stories of Human Rights
Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 1
Getting Ready to Learn About Human Rights:
Close Reading of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

2. What does the phrase human rights mean to you?
Do Now:
Think – Write – Pair – Share:
What does the phrase human rights mean to you?

3. I can follow our class norms when I participate in a discussion.
Objectives
I can follow our class norms when I participate in a discussion.
I can determine words I know and words I don’t know.
I can summarize Article 1 of the UDHR.

4. Text Structure: Scanning the UDHR
This is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
It is a primary source.
Primary Source – original documents and objects that were created during a specific time period.
Turn and Talk:
What is a primary source?

5. Text Structure: Scanning the UDHR
What do you notice about this text? How is it set up?
When we talk about how a text is set up, we call it the text structure.
The UDHR has 30 different articles, or specific sections. Each article identifies a different right, or claim, about something that people who wrote this document believe should be true for all human beings.

6. Text Structure: Scanning the UDHR
Articles in the UDHR are claims about things that the authors of this document believe should be true for all human beings.

7. Introducing Close Reading: Article 1 of the UDHR
Look at the UDHR note-catcher.
What do you notice about this note- catcher?
Listen as I read Article 1
Turn and Talk: What do you think this article means?

8. Introducing Close Reading: Article 1 of the UDHR
Circle any words in Article 1 that you do not know.
dignity – the state of being valued and worthy of respect
endowed – given
conscience – an inner sense of right and wrong
brotherhood -

9. Introducing Close Reading: Article 1 of the UDHR
To understand difficult texts, good readers read the text more than once.
Reread the first sentence:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

10. Introducing Close Reading: Article 1 of the UDHR
To understand difficult texts, good readers read the text more than once.
Reread the first sentence:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Turn and Talk: What does the phrase born free and equal mean?

11. Introducing Close Reading: Article 1 of the UDHR
In the second column of your note catcher write the meaning of this first article in your own words.
Picture in your mind what this article might look like.
Draw a sketch of your visualization in the third column of your note catcher.
What would “breaking the promise” of Article 1 look like? Draw a sketch in the fourth column.