This lesson plan for 7-12th graders addressing the topic "The United Nations has declared that freedom of the press is a basic human right (Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights)" from the FrontLine service of PBS offers educators a structure for class discussion.
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A personal comment I would add for discussion is from an observation made while part of a small group of teachers invited to train Armenian educators in ways to integrate the Internet in their teaching. As we were brainstorming to identify a common topic of interest, we selected their constitution which had been translated into English. This allowed us to highlight and discuss its articles while actually pointing at the Armenian page for our viewers. The teachers response was very enlightening. They asked why we did not have our Constitution translated into Armenian for them. They spoke with reverence that ours was over 200 years old and was what they needed to use for instruction, rather than theirs which was in continual change. The point is that while the world recognizes the value of our rights and is teaching those principles to their citizens, are we somehow losing sight of our greatest rights as United States citizens.
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