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Year 8 Scope and Sequence

The document outlines 6 terms of lessons covering topics such as morality, human rights, genocide, refugees, and preventing future atrocities. Each term contains between 2-4 lessons, with the lessons including introductions to concepts, personal stories, discussions, and activities. The lessons progressively build upon each other to educate students about important social issues through recaps, definitions, comparisons to history, and calls to action.

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Year 8 Scope and Sequence

The document outlines 6 terms of lessons covering topics such as morality, human rights, genocide, refugees, and preventing future atrocities. Each term contains between 2-4 lessons, with the lessons including introductions to concepts, personal stories, discussions, and activities. The lessons progressively build upon each other to educate students about important social issues through recaps, definitions, comparisons to history, and calls to action.

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Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6

4 Lessons 3 Lessons 3 Lessons 3 Lessons 2 Lessons? 3 Lessons

Lesson 1: Lesson 1: Lesson 1: Lesson 1: Lesson 1: Lesson 1:


● Morality Recap ● Hong/Kong/Current ● Finish up Personal ● Genocide Intro ● Is colonialism a form ● What can we do to
● What will the year Events in case Stories of Human ● 10 stages of of genocide? prevent genocides in
look like something more Rights Violations Genocide ● Introducing the the future?
● Set up Books recent than Hong ● Start conversations ● What Genocides do genocide of Native ● Individual
● Values Kong is a HR about the Syrian we know about Americans responsibility
● Establish Classroom violation Refugee Crisis ● Are there other
norms ● History of the issues things we would
● Workshop that have caused consider genocides
Definitions: Syrians to seek that don’t have that
Genocide and refuge. label
Human Rights ● Holocaust first
(What do we think official Genocide
these things are, how
do we define them,
they are recurring
themes throughout
the year)
● How do we decide
what’s right and
wrong?
○ Moral Right and
Wrong
● Genocide, Human
Rights, and the idea
of right and wrong

Lesson 2: Lesson 2: Lesson 2: Lesson 2: Lesson 2: Lesson 2:


● Define Human ● Writing Activity ● Responses to ● Cambodian ● Are the Native ● Global responsibility
Rights in Context Refugees Genocide Indian populations ● Look at the UN
● How do we know Day → Why is ● Comparisons to ● Background still affected today? article about
what our Human punishing Holocaust information - ● Should Columbus genocide.
rights are? ○ USE How did this Day be a holiday?
protesters wrong?
● Where did the term REFUGEE happen?
“Human Rights” AGAIN
come from? ● Outline idea of
(Holocaust) Political Summit
● Introduce (AMY 2016
declaration of CLimate summit)
Human Rights
● Human Rights in the
Secondary School
Lesson one (with
Modifications/own
powerpoint)
● Read through
Declaration

Lesson 3: Lesson 3: Lesson 3: Lesson 3: Lesson 3: Lesson 3:


● Humans Declaration ● Personal Stories of Political Summit → What ● Discussing the
pt. 2 Human Rights should we do about the genocide in
● Make your own list Violations Cambodia.
Refugees
of Human ○ Prisoners at
Rights/what you Guantanamo Bay
think is important ○ Stories from
Japanese
Internment
○ Refugee Book
Excerpts
○ Chinese ‘re-
education camps’
for Muslims
● Human Rights
violations can
happen to anyone

Lesson 4:
● How can human
rights be violated?

Resources that may be Hong Kong Resources: Syria Background: Genocide: Christopher Columbus: How do we prevent these
helpful: ● Background of ● Syria Explained ● Stages of things from happening:
● TedEd on History Protests ● Syria and Refugee Genocide
of Human Rights Personal Experiences of Crisis Cambodia:
● 2 Minute Human Rights Personal Experiences: ● Gallery Walk
Summary of Violations: ● Children’s Story Photos
Human Rights ● Treatment at Responses to Syrian ● Survivor’s Story
● History of Human Guantanamo Bay Refugee Crisis:
Rights in the UK ● Muslims in China
(Comic) Political Summit
● Refugee by Alan Resources:
Gratz

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