Using fiction to teach human rights: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird is a twentieth century classic. Find out how you can use the novel to teach human rights.
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Burn 9: respect
Students look at the subtleties and connotations of language, and the impact words have in describing a person or event.
Burn 9: respect
Burn 7: speak up
Students explore how words can help process feelings of anger and helplessness – and bring about self-empowerment.
Burn 7: speak up
Burn 5: witness
On film, poet Emtithal Mahmoud asks students to ‘bear witness’ to her experiences of genocide in Darfur.
Burn 5: witness
Burn 4: change
Students learn that everyone has a role to play in upholding human rights – in their school, community and world.
Burn 4: change
Videos for Sessions
Hi Everyone,
Here is a google sheet I have put together with a list of videos I have found and used in sessions. Feel free to add more!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IyO7h-mjQcHps4bL2tkDB07IbgYnpZV7uCkg4dUakt0/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks
Alex
Burn 10: words that burn
Students are challenged to Make A Difference in a Minute by standing up for human rights through poetry.
Burn 10: make a difference
Burn 8: power
Students explore poems about race and privilege before creating their own protest poetry.
Burn 8: power
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