Thursday, September 12, 2013

THURSDAY SEPT 12-NHD

Do Now: Make sure you sent me your email due for HW (1st period also registered for schoolnet).

Classwork:  Spend 5-10 minutes on http://www.nationalgeographic.com/remembering-9-11/ 
Discuss with person to your left (5 min): What rights and responsibilities  of being an American citizen were given or revoked after 9/11 due to the war on terror?

Classwork:

  1. Read over NHD GETTING STARTED: http://www.nhd.org/GettingStarted.htm 
  2. WEBQUEST: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/hreduseries/hereandnow/Part-1/from-concept.htm 
    1. Read A What are Human Rights and B Short History of Human Rights to become familiar with this year's NHD theme in context. 
    2. Begin to research a topic of your choosing related to the theme.
BY THURS SEPT 19: Email mirandagt2013@gmail.com with at least the area you want to research (Women's rights, labor rights, civil rights, privacy, immigrant rights, lack of rights, etc).

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