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Grade 9 Social Studies

Grade 9 Social Studies. Human Rights. Human Rights. Having rights and being aware of those rights (and the rights of others) makes us more empowered . With globalization comes challenges in relation to Human rights. Human Rights Youth for Human Rights website.

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Grade 9 Social Studies

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  1. Grade 9Social Studies • Human Rights

  2. Human Rights Having rights and being aware of those rights (and the rights of others) makes us more empowered. With globalization comes challenges in relation to Human rights.

  3. Human RightsYouth for Human Rightswebsite • What are Human Rights? – video • United– Music Video • 30 Rights -30 Videos • http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights.html

  4. Human Rights • The United Nations is an international organization whose mandate (purpose) includes: • International law • international security • economic development • social progress • human rights • achievement of world peace The United Nations http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml

  5. Video – Rights from the Heart(NFB - The National Film Board of Canada) OMIT • Watch each video very closely! • When each is finished, I want you to try to select which human rights (from the 30 articles I have provided you) are being infringed upon. (violated) OMIT

  6. RightsScramble (Activity) Copy each right (in yellow) into your Social Studies and then match each behaviour to one of the rights. This means that I will be free to express my feelings and opinions without being interrupted or punished. This means that no one will yell, scream, shout, or make loud noises. • I have a right to be myself in this room. • I have a right to be safe in this room. • I have a right to hear and be heard in this room. • I have a right to learn about myself in this room. • I have a right to be happy and to be treated with compassion in this room. This means that no one will hit me, kick me, push me, pinch me, hurt me. This means that no one will laugh at me or hurt my feelings. This means that no one will treat me unfairly because I am black or white, fat or thin, tall or short, boy or girl.

  7. Human Rights Violations • Check out the following human-rights-risk world map. What are the top 10 ranked countries each considered to have an extreme risk for human rights violations? Can you list 5 others? • http://bettertobest.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/maplecroft-human-rights-risk-map-2011.jpg

  8. - Slavery - sex trafficking- abortion - censorship laws- refugees - wrongful convictions- torture - domestic violence- child abuse - rape- child soldiers - child labour- discrimination- violence against women- imprisonment Just some examples of human rights violations: • Slavery http://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_kristine_glimpses_of_modern_day_slavery.html • Social Injustice – TED Talk • http://www.ted.com/playlists/15/the_pursuit_of_justice.html

  9. Check out Amnesty International’s website…http://www.amnesty.org/enClick the Who We Are section and make a statement about Amnesty’s purpose and vision. • Please look over the list of human rights violations by topic. http://www.amnesty.org/en/human-rights • Select the Refugees and Migrantscategory and watch the short video titled When You Don’t Exist • Select your own topic from this list that you are interested in, research it, and present your information in a 1 page Poster format.

  10. What about The Holocaust? Check out the Holocaust clock below closely and consider the magnitude of this atrocity. http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks/holocaustclock More Human Rights Violations… • What about abortion? Check out the abortion clock below closely. • http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks/abortion/ • What about incidents of rape worldwide as a violation of human rights? Check out this chart / map on the topic of rape worldwide. http://visual.ly/world-according-rape

  11. Social Justice Social Justice is defined as justice exercised within a society, particularly as it is exercised by and among the various social classes of that society. A socially just society both understands and values human rights, as well as recognizes the dignity of every human being

  12. Human Rights and Social Justice • View samples of infographics and data visualizations from the visual.ly website. • Select a topic and create your own infographic and visualization of data to tell a story about your chosen topic. • You info-graphic is a visualization that relies on text-features, graphics, colour, layout, etc.(see examples!!) Have fun creating this information art… we’ll be displaying them and then analysing all the other topics that get created by our classmates.

  13. Assessment Task Pass in: 1. Listingof the 30 Human Rights 2. OMIT 3. Poster/Illustration to represent Human Rights 4. List of countries – using the human rights map for data 5. Information Art / Visuallization of Data / Infographic

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