Primary Source Exemplar: Human Rights, Conflict and Social Change (view)

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Unit Overview

Keywords:

Informational Texts, Text-Based Discussion, Instructional Design, ELA, Primary Source Exemplar, Lesson Plan Templates, Apartheid, Evidence-Based Claims, Human Rights, English Language Arts, Nelson Mandela, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Close Reading

Lesson 1

Learning goals:

Students will be able to explore the meaning, significance, and structure of a declaration., Students will be able to analyze primary source documents to identify the significance of details., Students will be able to summarize the meaning of the Preamble to the UDHR and provide evidence for their interpretations., Students will be able to analyze the details of the Preamble to infer meaning and effect.

Keywords:

Informational Texts, Instructional Design, Lesson Plan Templates, Primary Source Exemplar

Lesson 2

Learning goals:

Students will be able to predict a set of rights they expect to see in the Articles of the UDHR., Students will be able to paraphrase the Articles and to identify and discuss the significance of key words in each Article., Students will be able to create and defend a structure for ordering the Articles, Students will be able to analyze the structure, key words, and punctuation of both the Preamble and the Articles., Students will be able to use evidence from the text in making inferences and defending claims about the text.

Lesson 3

Learning goals:

Students will be able to recall and define structural elements of a formal argument, Students will be able to identify elements of a formal argument in Eleanor Roosevelt’s “Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” speech, Students will be able to evaluate Roosevelt’s argument, Students will be able to create a claim regarding the effectiveness of Roosevelt’s argument and write an argumentative paragraph asserting and defending their claim using formal argument structure and evidence from the text.

Lesson 4

Learning goals:

Students will be able to evaluate the argument and structure of Nelson Mandela’s speech entitled “Speech to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid.”, Students will be able to determine how Mandela used the UDHR as support for his views., Students will be able to analyze literary and rhetorical strategies used by Mandela and the impact of these strategies on the tone and meaning of the text

Culminating Assessment