This document discusses major movements for rights and freedoms around the world. It provides learning goals and success criteria for understanding how rights and freedoms have developed globally. The document outlines tasks for students to describe rights throughout history, independence movements, and racial equality movements. It also instructs students to create a timeline showing the development of rights and when they occurred for different paragraphs. The recap emphasizes the global progression of human rights and connections between rights for different groups like women and children.

1. CHANGING RIGHTS AND
FREEDOMS
Topic Two

2. The Big Idea
WE VALUE ALL
PEOPLE
EVERYWHERE

3. Major movements for rights and freedoms
in the world
Learning Goal
◻ To understand how rights and freedoms have developed in the
world
Success Criteria
1. I can describe how rights and freedoms have developed
2. I can make connections between the development of rights
and freedoms for different groups including women and
indigenous peoples

4. ◻ Create a Google Doc entitled “Major movements for rights and
freedoms”

5. Starter – 5 minutes
◻ In December 2017 the Australian Government passed changes
to allow same sex couples to marry, yet only 20 years before it
was illegal in some states and territories of Australia to be
involved in a Homosexual relationship.
◻ Obviously society’s view on same sex unions did not change
overnight
Task One:
Write some factors that led to the change of attitudes towards
same sex couples in Australia?

6. What is Textmapping?
◻ Textmapping is a strategy that can be used when you want a
complete picture of an issue being presented in a text
◻ Lay out all of the text – it may go over many pages and join
these together
◻ Task Two
◻ You can then annotate the text, underline, draw lines and
relationships – use it like a mind map

7. Note taking
◻ Task Three:
◻ After reading pages 6-9, make notes using these headings:
◻ 1. Privileges and rights throughout history
◻ 2. Independence movements.
◻ 3. Racial equality movements.

8. Join your pages so you can see the
information in its entirety

9. Textmapping – Pair or individual activity
◻ Task Four:
◻ You each need to create your OWN timeline of events!
◻ Read through each paragraph and in the margin of the text
write down what the development in rights and freedoms was
and when it occurred.
◻ Do this for each of the paragraphs
◻ As you do, draw in any relationships you see between the
concepts

10. Major movements for rights and
freedoms in the world
Task Five:
Write the above heading in your workbook, then the starter
sentence below.
Prepare a brief paragraph response (ie - use sentences) following
from this starter. Give information about developments over time.
Since 1776 dramatic changes have been made towards
achieving rights for all humans, although for groups like women
and the indigenous, progress has been slow.

11. Recap & exit tickets
Success Criteria
1. I can describe the global progression in human rights
2. I can make connections between the development of rights
for different groups including women and children
Exit Ticket
* Name a group of people who you think are still being denied
human rights