The Magna Carta: a View to the Future of Human Rights

A Chunked Lesson Plan for High School students

CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION: the Right to Rights

THE MAGNA CARTA

1. Improve you knowledge, abilities and competences in the English Language.
2. Revise and learn main facts about the British historical and social context during the 13th century.
3. Broaden you knowledge about human rights in the past and today.
4. Build up you own responsibilities and elicit behaviours more consistent with human rights principles.
5. Develop autonomous learning and share knowledge and experience with your mates.

YOU WILL ALSO ...

1. What Magna Carta is.
2. Why it was created.
3. What it declares.
4. Why it has become one of the most celebrated documents in history.
5. What you can do to preserve its legacy.

YOU WILL LEARN

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What you should know

Richard I dies and is succedeed by his brother John, nicknamed 'Lackland'

John is excommunicated over a dispute with Pope Innocent III

1216-17

June 15, 1215

1214

1209

1199

A TIMELINE TO BE COMPLETED ...

John loses Normandy and other French possessions after the Battle of Bouvines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xo4tUMdAMw

Take some notes while you are watching and listening because in the end you will be asked to answer some questions!

LET''S GET STARTED WITH A VIDEO

Add info to the cooperative Coggle Map to summarise and remember main facts about the Magna Carta.

Click and listen Then, answer the questions on an audio file and post it on our G-Classroom.

AND NOW IT''S YOUR TURN: do the following activities sticking to the instructions

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A Glossary for better understanding the complex world of words in the Magna Carta

How does the Magna Carta sound if read in the original Latin language? Click to know ...

Read this document in Italian and work it out with the Teacher of History

Visit the site of the British Library

EAGER TO KNOW SOME MORE ABOUT THE MAGNA CARTA?

TAKE A BREAK ... THINK AND REFLECT

Introduction here

The rights of EVERY MAN are diminished when the rights of ONE MAN are threatened

Give your contribute to the Human Rights Padlet!

Write a brief essay. Click to know about what and how to send it.

NOW YOU ARE ABLE TO WORK ON SOME OTHER ACTIVITIES

Search

A way for a change?

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I CARE

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Click and fill in the attached Google Form. The most voted campaign for human rights will be debated in class and we will choose the best way to support it!

stay united and supportive

For a better world ...

by teacherLaura Valtancoli

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THANKS!