United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

I've mentioned the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals, and today I'll talk about the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In 1948 (over 70 years ago) the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  This is a list of 30 rights that every person in the world has. Look over the list below or click here to see a thorough description of each article. 

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio (or send an email to your teacher), title it the same as this blog post, then complete two of the tasks below.

 

1.     Which 3-5 articles do you think are most important? Explain your answer.

2.     Compare this Declaration of Human Rights to the Declaration of Independence from Britain. What is similar? What is different?

3.     Give an example of how one of these human rights is respected in our community. This could be in the school, the city, the state or our country.  

4.     Give an example of a time when one of these human rights were not respected. What should have happened?

5.     How can you promote/raise awareness of these human rights? Give an example.

6.     How can you defend these human rights? Give an example.

7.     By respecting these rights, how might our community be more just and positive?

8.     Look at the list in Spanish. Find 5 cognates (words that look and sound the same in Spanish and English). List the 5 cognates in Spanish and English.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio (or send an email to your teacher), title it the same as this blog post, then complete two of the tasks below.

1. Summarize the purpose of these goals in your own words.
2. Which of the 17 goals do you think is most important? Explain your answer.
3. Look up and briefly describe how the United Nations came about. 
4. Describe in your own words what "sustainable" means.
5. If there were no barrier to time nor money, which goal would you work to solve? Explain your answer.
6. Click on this link to learn more about why each goal matters and information about each goal. 
7. Look at the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in Spanish. List 8-10 words you understand from the Spanish images.

No Te Calles

Throughout the history of music there are many protest songs. Here is a recently released song in Spanish.

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio, title it the same as this blog post, and complete 2 of the following tasks

• This song is about standing up and fighting for something you believe in. If you were to go out to the streets to protest something, what would it be and why? Explain 
• You can follow up by going to this website related to the song and share your reason to be out in the streets and not be silenced.
• Look up the lyrics and identify 5 keywords to translate from Spanish to English.
• Create a brief biography of Ruben Blades in your own words. 
• What other protest songs do you know about? Create a list of at least 3 and what they are fighting for.