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ESL Human Rights Lesson Plan

This ESL lesson plan focuses on introducing students to the concept of human rights and common violations over 1-2 hours. Students will define human rights, recognize violations, and analyze solutions through activities like making infographics comparing rights in their country and the US. Vocabulary and sample scenarios are provided to spark role plays and discussions around rights to dignity, freedom from discrimination, and being entitled to fundamental protections from persecution or torture.

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ESL Human Rights Lesson Plan

This ESL lesson plan focuses on introducing students to the concept of human rights and common violations over 1-2 hours. Students will define human rights, recognize violations, and analyze solutions through activities like making infographics comparing rights in their country and the US. Vocabulary and sample scenarios are provided to spark role plays and discussions around rights to dignity, freedom from discrimination, and being entitled to fundamental protections from persecution or torture.

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ESL Human Rights Lesson Plan

This lesson focuses on introducing the concept of human rights and common violations of those rights to ESL
students. Several activities are included to engage all levels and styles of learners.

Learning Objectives
Students will be able to:

define 'human rights'

recognize common human rights violations

analyze proposed and enacted solutions to human rights violations

Length of Lesson
1 to 2 hours

Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.4

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary
describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1.D

Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives, summarize points of agreement and disagreement,


and, when warranted, qualify or justify their own views and understanding and make new
connections in light of the evidence and reasoning presented.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.5

Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements)
in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add
interest.

Materials
list of vocabulary words
list of human rights

list of human rights violations

Internet access

Infographic Activity Materials


samples of infographics

internet access OR poster board and markers

Draw and Decide Activity Materials


whiteboard or poster boards

dry erase or regular markers

human rights list cut into individual slips

Role play Activity materials


human rights violation scenarios, such as:
Another student walks up to you and says, 'I saw that lesbian walking into the girl's bathroom; that
shouldn't be allowed!'

A coach tells you that you can't wear your head scarf during games.

A teacher stops you and says, 'I know you have drugs,' and demands to search your book bag.

various roles, such as teacher, police officer, social service worker, parent

Vocabulary
human rights

human rights violations

discrimination

torture

deprive

dignity

entitled

fundamental

persecution

Instructions
Ask students to discuss what they think of when they hear the words 'human rights.' Potential questions
to guide the discussion include:
How many human rights do you think there are?

Are some human rights more important than others?

Are human rights the same in every country?

What human rights are talked about most in your native country?

What human rights do you think are focused on the most in the United States?

Who decides what human rights are?

Who enforces human rights?

Have your human rights ever been violated? Explain.

Show or write the definition of 'human rights' on the board and discuss the terminology used in it.

Pass out the vocabulary list and discuss the definitions.

Continue on to the activities for deeper understanding and engagement.

Human Rights Infographic Activity


Explain what an infographic is to the students.

Show a sample of an infographic to the class.

Dependent on your class setup, students can make an infographic digitally or using poster board.

Assign a different human right and country to each student.

Explain that their infographic will compare and contrast the assigned human right in the assigned
country and the United States. Each infographic should have for each country:
the human right listed

any laws or guidelines that focus on that right

times when major violations against that right took place

Have students present their infographics to the class.

Draw and Decide Activity


Divide the students into two groups.

Cut up a list of the human rights and place them in a container to be drawn from.

Each team will pick a person to draw the term chosen at random.

The first team to guess must then give an example of a way that human right can be violated.

If the team is unable to give a violation, the other team can steal for the points.

Role play Activity


Divide students into partners.
Give one partner a role and allow them to share that role with the other student.

Give the same student with the role a scenario and ask them to not share it with their partner.

Explain that the other student is to react to the presented scenario as they normally would do so.

Have the partners do the role play in front of the class and discuss after each scenario how the situation
could have been handled differently, legal aspects of each, and personal feelings.

Extension
Have students research human rights issues in their native country and present their findings to
the class.

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