1. Human Rights
Introduction

2. Create A tweet
Activity 1 Create a definition of human rights using no more than 140 characters (including spacing and punctuation). Get as creative as necessary with your language.

3. Poster- Groups of 3 Provide Clear summary of main points for each of the following
The Cyrus Cylinder (539 BCE)
Magna Carta (1215 CE)
Petition of Right (1628 CE)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
US Constitution/Bill of Rights (1787/1791)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
First Geneva Convention

4. Theory on Human Rights Universal Indivisible Interdependent
Cannot be separated into importance, all equal
A right that cannot be taken from you
Equally applicable to all people everywhere
Protection of one right helps protection of others
Protected by law
Universal
Indivisible
Interdependent
Inalienable
Judicial/Codified

5. Declaration of Rights After reading:
What are your first thoughts on reading the declaration?
Do you think it’s important document? A necessary document? An effective document?
Are there any rights you feel should not be included? Any that have been overlooked?

6. Presentation
Working individually, you are to develop a presentation exploring an example of when human rights have been breached or denied by a state. You may find groups such as Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch a useful place to start but this presentation should be based on YOUR opinion. If you can support what you say with evidence then you are free to choose any case study you wish. You will present your case studies to the class. They must be no longer than 5 minutes long (any longer than 5 minutes 30 seconds and you will be shut down). You will be assessed using the HL assessment criteria.

8. Post Presentation
- Are the examples you found of breaches of Human Rights accepted as genuine breaches of natural law in the countries these breaches took place in? - Should the perpetrators of these breaches be punished in an international or national court. - As the UN Declaration on Human Rights is vague and open to interpretation should we be surprised that there are not more breaches of these rights. - Is there a common geographical pattern with the breaches of Human Rights that you have found.

9. Big Question
To what extent are Human Rights a Western Construction? For counter argument:
Read me OR