1. UDHR 9 Main Ideas in Informational Text
Analyzing a Firsthand Human Rights Account

2. I can use context clues to help me determine the meaning of new words.
Learning Targets
I can explain the connections between people and events in “Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant, and Vote.”
I can cite examples of where human rights were upheld or challenged in “Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant, and Vote.”
I can use context clues to help me determine the meaning of new words.

3. “What are some of the human rights you remember from the UDHR?”

6. Close Readers Do These Things
Read the text slowly at least twice.
Circle words you aren’t sure of and try to figure them out.
Reread, annotate, and underline key vocabulary.
Talk to each other about what you think it means.
Read to summarize or answer specific questions.

8. Closely Read Paragraph 1: Remember to circle, underline, and annotate

9. What is this paragraph mostly about?

10. Closely Read Paragraph 2: Remember to circle, underline, and annotate

11. Closely Read Paragraph 3: Remember to circle, underline, and annotate

12. Closely Read Paragraph 4: Remember to circle, underline, and annotate

13. Paragraphs 5-7

15. Paragraphs 8-10

17. Paragraphs 11-13

18. Paragraphs 11-13

19. How did certain words in the text help you understand the human rights issues in this firsthand account? Be sure to give evidence from the text in your explanation.

20. How did certain words in the text help you understand the human rights issues in this firsthand account? Be sure to give evidence from the text in your explanation.

21. Look over your UDHR note-catcher.
Think of a nickname for each of the 11 articles.

22. I can use context clues to help me determine the meaning of new words.
Learning Targets
I can explain the connections between people and events in “Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant, and Vote.”
I can cite examples of where human rights were upheld or challenged in “Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant, and Vote.”
I can use context clues to help me determine the meaning of new words.