Dr. Russell & Mr.Scozzaro

Introduction

Term One Essential Question:

What are the rights and responsibilities of citizenship?

Term One Project Question:

Once you are informed of a violation of basic human rights, how do you, as a global citizen, carry out your responsibility?

This project will put you in the position of being a global citizen in the real world. There is no role-playing here. So in the weeks we have left in term one, your job is take a serious, hard look at the world around you.

Each of you has chosen a country to follow. You will find a current event article for each of the items on the “menu” below. The “article” can be from a newspaper, a blog, or an online database. It can be written by someone outside or inside your country. We will be in the library during D3 on Wed. 10/17 to show you how to search for current events about or from your country. I was just looking through Gale’s World History in Context (http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/which) and it looks promising! You can search for your first current event at home, but if you can’t find anything, you can do it when we are in the library.

Topic Menu

1. The International Criminal Court (ICC) DUE 10/17
   1. Does the ICC help protect the rights of people in your country?
2. Activists/Dissidents DUE 10/22
   1. Who are the activists?
   2. What are they protecting?

1. Students’ Rights DUE 10/24
   1. Do Students have protected rights?
   2. To what extent?
   3. Should students have protected rights?
   4. Writers, Musicians, & Artists DUE 10/29
      1. How do citizens use art to voice their dissent?
      2. Relationships DUE 10/31
         1. Can young people freely consort with partners of their own choosing?
         2. Book Reviews DUE 11/5

• How do/does your T1 outside reading connect to current or past events in your country?
• It is NOT REQUIRED to find a book review. You can write your own and bring it to class.

Find and read an article about each of the following topics. Write a brief summary of the article in which you also explore the guiding question(s) that are given. In your summary, try to answer the guiding questions. Bring to class on the date indicated.

During class on the due dates, we will carve out 15-20 minutes of class time for you to meet in REGIONAL GROUPS to discuss your current events.

These current events assignments will count as individual grades in History (1-3) and English (4-6).

Once we get the current events under way, we will publish a document on the what you will do as a group for the final project for T1…

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