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Grades 11 - 12

Human Rights

at the Southern Border

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.8

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Evaluate an author's premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information.

Duration 50 minute classroom period and added assignment

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.9

Standards

Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7

Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

Teacher Note

Teacher

Note

Goals or Objective

Understand the issue of human rights and the role of the United Nations.

Goals

Use graphs and data to illustrate what the issues at the US southern border are.

Use multiple data sources to illustrate the issue and identify if the solutions are aligned or differing.

What are human rights?

Class questions

Report out - what are your definitions?

Let’s take 5 minutes to tell your neighbor your definition of human rights.

Let’s watch this video

Human

Rights

Share with your neighbor. What is one new thing you learned from this video?

Data from the southern border

What does the data tell us?

Southern Border

Let’s look at these graphs to create a better picture of immigration at the southern border.

Southwest Border Migrant Apprehensions Have

Dropped to Early 1970s Levels

Migrant

The Proportion of Children and Families, Among

Apprehended Migrants, Keeps Increasing

Children and Families

Asylum

Asylum Requests Made Before Mexican Authorities

Backlog of Pending Cases in Immigration Courts

Immigration

Courts

Countries

Countries With More Than 100 Apprehended Migrants in At Least One Year, 2014 - 2017

Human Rights at the Southern Border of the United States

What are the human rights being violated at the southern border of the United States?

1

United

States

How do you know this?

Is it based in fact?

2

What human rights are intact at the southern border?

3

Take your own notes on the following questions as we discuss them in class.

How do you know this?

Is it based in fact?

4

Human Rights

Human Rights

What human rights are intact at the southern border? How do you know this? Is it based in fact?

Lesson

Lesson

If the authors differ on their solutions, note the differences and support with evidence. You must include a combination of at least 3 of the following - graphs, infographics, and photographer images - in your final presentation.

The Issue

What is one human right that is being violated at the United States southern border?

1

What do human rights advocates think a solution is?

2

The Assignment

In looking at the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, choose one human right that is being violated at the US southern border.

Use a minimum of two articles/blog posts from The United Nations, ACLU, Amnesty International, and/or Human Rights Watch to support your stance.

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Bibliography

https://www.wola.org/analysis/us-government-2018-border-data-trump-immigration-asylum-policy/

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html

https://www.amnesty.org/en/

https://www.hrw.org/topic/migrants

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