Content

Teaching and Learning Activities

Resources for Students

• France Before the Revolution of 1789
• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

• Analysis of how the declaration addressed abuses in pre-revolutionary French society

Handouts

• France Before the Revolution of 1789 (Task 1)

• Extracts from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Task 2)

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

• Simplified Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Comparison of United Nations Declaration with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

• Identification of milestones in the development of rights which are claimed as universal

• Identification of situations where human rights are not being respected

Handouts

• Simplified Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Task 1)

• Extracts from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Task 2)

Digital Learning Object

• Know your rights: five missions (TLF-ID L1348) (Task 2)

Websites

• Learning Object Authoring Zone’s Online timeline creator (Task 2)

• Youth for Human Rights International’s What Are Human Rights? video clip (Task 2)

• Confucianism
• Human Rights Watch photographic essays

2c: Culture and Human Rights

• Development of a set of family relationships

• Comparison of Confucian ‘relationships’ with United Nations Declaration

Assessment Task

• Creation of photographic essay or short digital movie illustrating and explaining the importance of a human right

Handouts

• Confucianism

Websites

• Human Rights Watch

Other Resources

• digital cameras

• digital video cameras