UNIT 4: HUMAN RIGHTS INSPIRED SCULPTURES

On Thursday, 3/23 and Friday, 3/24 Ms. Held introduces our 4th and final unit:

Human Rights Inspired Sculptures. Ms. Held started off the class with a Do Now assignment that asked the students to:

-Define human rights.
-Identify current events that connect with this theme of human rights.

-Attempt to explain what the United Nations is and identify the ways in which the United Nations promotes human rights.

-View and image of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C. and analyze what they think this sculpture symbolizes.

Here is the link to the Human Rights Introduction Survey: Human Rights Intro Survey

We then had a discussion about the students' responses. We watched the following two videos:

The History of Human Rights & The United Nations 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

An Overview of The United Nations 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

For a more information and a complete list of the 30 articles from the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights: UDHR

Next week we will explore the UDHR document further with a Kahoot Human Rights Trivia game and a group activity that encourages the students to look at contemporary works of art that connect to this important historical document. Students will then be asked to develop, via drawing and writing, their own idea for a human rights inspired sculpture.