World History · Week 3 · Foundations and Democratic Revolutions
Rights on Paper
Students trace rights from the Magna Carta to the Bill of Rights and imagine how each document looked to people it included and people it left out.
- Students will
- Students sequence five rights documents on a timeline, list one principle from each, and explain who was included and who was left out when each was written.
- SEL skill
- Describe a rights document from the view of someone it excluded
- What it looks like
- Students practice empathy by describing how a document looked to people it protected and to people it excluded.
- Content focus
- Rights on paper
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Social awareness
Social awareness is understanding and empathizing with the views of others, especially people whose lives are unlike yours. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 10.2.2: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.2, item 2)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST1 Compare the present with the past, evaluating the consequences of past events and decisions and the activities learned. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Civ.3.9-12 Analyze how constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements maintain national and international order.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.9 Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
Fits these textbook chapters
- Modern World History, Enlightenment and Revolution
- Modern World History, Revolutions Sweep the West
- History Alive! World Connections, Lesson 15: Political Revolutions and Their Legacies
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More social awareness activities for World History
- From Farm to Factory Town Social awarenessStudents study the move from villages to crowded industrial cities and consider what helps newcomers feel they belong in a new place.
- Two Sides of the Colonial Story Social awarenessStudents compare accounts of imperialism written by colonizers and by colonized people and practice seeing an event through the eyes of someone with less power.
- Letters From the Trenches Social awarenessStudents read letters from soldiers on many sides, including colonial troops, and practice attuning to the feelings beneath another person's words.
- Remembering the Armenian Genocide Social awarenessStudents learn about the Ottoman government's genocide against Armenian citizens through survivor testimony and practice bearing witness with respect for the people who suffered.
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