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Here are a few additional suggestions for the Rights
Cards:
- Students organize the rights from least important to
most important. This can be done individually or in
pairs, each pair joining another to negotiate a new list
until the entire class agrees on a ranking. Discuss
students' rationales and the process of negotiating
consensus. Reinforce the principle that all rights are
equally important and indivisible (each relies on the
other: when one is jeopardized, others may be).
- Students sort the cards into rights that are
easy/difficult to guarantee, and explain why.
- The teacher or students read short articles or
stories to the class, and each student holds up the
Rights Card they think relates to the story. Content from
current curricula could also be used: novels, social
studies or science issues, and so on.
- Invite an artist or the students to illustrate each
right. Alternatively, reproduce the Rights Cards without
the descriptive text (graphic images only). Students
match each Rights Card to the illustration of it.
- Play "pictionary" with the rights cards: divide the
class into teams, each with a pile of Rights Cards turned
face downwards. A player from one team selects a Rights
Card from the pile and tries to depict that right without
any verbal clues. The player's team tries to guess what
right on the chalkboard is being illustrated, within a
time limit. The next team repeats the process. The team
to identify the most rights correctly wins the game.
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