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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.
Understand the issue of human rights and the role of the United Nations.
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.
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
Share with your neighbor. What is one new thing you learned from this video?
Let’s look at these graphs to create a better picture of immigration at the southern border.
What are the human rights being violated at the southern border of the United States?
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How do you know this?
Is it based in fact?
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What human rights are intact at the southern border?
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Take your own notes on the following questions as we discuss them in class.
How do you know this?
Is it based in fact?
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What human rights are intact at the southern border? How do you know this? Is it based in fact?
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?
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What do human rights advocates think a solution is?
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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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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