Human Rights

             

"Ours could be the time when regard for the sacredness of all living beings

becomes more important than dominating and conquering others."

                                                         ~ Kathleen Fischer

 

 

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Welcome to Human Rights! Your desire to "be part of the solution rather than part of the problem" is something that we do not take lightly and we look forward to

learning with you all semester. This website is designed to not only give you the opportunity to see what we will be doing during the course of a week and what your

assignments are both short and long term,but to give you opportunities to see what other high school and college students are doing to protect the rights of human beings everywhere.As you find anything you think might be related please do not hesitate to send us the link and we will post it on here for you.  Mr. Strauss and Mrs Piecewicz

 

updated December 2 515 pm

Week of December 3-7

                                                                                            Assignment due on                                 Topic covered in class                       Future work

Tuesday December 4

name and bring in the words of 5 songs that denigrate women for Thursday Dec 6

 

sexism

 

Thursday December 6

 

 

 

abuse and denigration of women

work on Darfur night

 

Monday December 10

quiz on reading from Friday

the macho paradox

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday December 12

   

  

 

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

                                                                           Martin Luther King, Jr

 

 

 

Important links

Book Review guidelines

8 stages of genocide

holocaust

www.kiva.org

genocide

human rights

recent cases of genocide

Rwanda Chronology

National Council for Human Rights

 

 

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