Eleanor Roosevelt leads the drive to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To begin a study of universal rights, class members create a definition of a right and compare it to the 1947 version. They then investigate Eleanor's role in the creation of the Declaration. After identifying what they consider to be three universal human rights, individuals reflect in their journals on their rights.

Concepts

human rights, social-emotional learning, democracy, the universal declaration of human rights, eleanor roosevelt

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Have groups draft a Declaration of Rights for their classroom and then compare their declaration with those proposed by other 

Classroom Considerations

• Tenth in a series of 15 lessons in the Standing Up for Democracy unit
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Pros

• The video details what inspired Roosevelt's work and the challenges UN members faced writing the declaration
• The journal prompt asks class members to consider what responsibility do individuals have to ensure everyone's rights are protected

Cons

• None