Social Studies HS Guide

STANDARDS

Students will identify international human rights issues, seek and evaluate solutions, and share their ideas with appropriate public and/or private stakeholders. CONCEPTS (Nouns) SKILLS (Verbs) LANGUAGE SUPPORTS ● International human rights issues ● Solutions ● Identify ● Inform ● Best Practices for MLs in Secondary Content Area Classes ● Identify and defne human rights and understand their historical development. ● Differentiate between civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. ● Identify current international human rights issues. ● Review research standards, with an emphasis on seeking and evaluating solutions. ● Have students identify a current international human rights issue through a solutions based lens. ● Introduce possible public and private stakeholders for international human rights issues - government offces, NGOs, community leader, cooperation. ● Identify how to write a letter to a possible stakeholder through a solution based lens. ● Have students write a letter to a stakeholder that is relevant to their chosen international human rights issue. ● Public stakeholders ● Private stakeholders LEARNING PROGRESSIONS

VOCABULARY

● International human rights issues ● Public stakeholders ● Private stakeholders

DIFFERENTIATION IN ACTION

● Inquiry ● K-12 Research Framework

Skill Building

● Themes and Lenses

Extension

STRAND7: The Contemporary World

STANDARD 7.4