Lesson 1: Defining Global Citizenship & Human Rights
Duration of Days: 5
Lesson Objective
Students will evaluate how the UDHR applies to modern geopolitical crises and identify media biases in international reporting.
What rights belong to every human being? How do international borders complicate human rights enforcement?
CT Civics/Gov (Dimension 4 - INQ 9–12.11); CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.1; MBL Standard 3A.
Day 6: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) overview.
Day 7: The concept of sovereignty vs. international intervention.
Day 8: Global media representation of human rights crises.
Day 9: Case study on a modern global refugee movement.
Day 10: Synthesizing human rights and personal global responsibility.
Students utilize digital media resources to track a current refugee crisis, comparing coverage between US outlets and outlets located in the home country of the crisis. Students use a Venn diagram to map out factual differences and messaging tones.
Purpose & DOK Level: Broaden geographic literacy and media critical thinking; DOK Level 3.
Modified reading levels for text documents; audio-visual options for tracking global news.
Comparative analysis blog draft evaluating the two distinct international perspectives.