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Final Performance Task for Grade 10 Civics CHV2O Title: "Global Citizenship Award"
Final Task Course Value: /15 (of the total 30% for Final Assessment Activities)
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The United Nations has recently established "A Global Citizenship Award" for an individual or organization that has exhibited behaviors, beliefs, values and notably actions that are worthy of recognition and an award. You are an experienced free- lance international journalist and have been asked to nominate a person or organization for this year’s award.
Description of the Student Performance Task You will be required to select a person or an organization (from the list supplied by your teacher) that you believe deserves this "Global Citizenship Award". The person can be from the past or present. You are to prepare a fictitious title and rationale/criteria for the United Nations Award. You are to prepare a written testimonial for your nominee containing biographical details, beliefs, actions and rationale for your nomination stating why the candidate for the award merits consideration. Also prepare a visual on the nominee that can be used as a slide to flash on the background screen while the recipient is accepting the award at the ceremony evening at the United Nations building in New York City.
Students are expected to produce the following products for assessment in this performance task:
2. Award Nomination
3. Testimonial Speech
4. Background Visual for a Slide for Awards Night
5. A Bibliography
People and Organizations to select from for Nominations
You may choose one of the following or ask the teacher for approval on a different person or group. Once you have decided, inform your teacher (first come, first served basis).
Cardinal Paul-Emile Leger Mothers Against Drunk Drivers Ocar Romero Amnesty International Doris Anderson Doctors Without Borders Justine Blainey Greenpeace Princess Diana Oxfam Terry Fox Red Cross Jean Chretien Right to Life Sir Sandford Fleming Save the Children Mahatma Gandhi UNICEF Marc Garneau World Vision Craig Kielburger (Free the Children) Salvation Army Martin Luther King Jr. YWCA/YMCA Nelson Mandela Frontier College Tsipora Mankovsky International Red Cross Raoul Wallenburg Scarborough Foreign Missions William Booth Tawney Meiorin Emily Murphy Rosa Parks Wilder Penfield Kenneth Ramsden Jackie Robinson Oskar Schindler David Suzuki Mother Theresa Mark Tewksbury Pierre Trudeau Jean Vanier Louise Arbour Joe Zenha Jackie Robinson Doris Anderson Gloria Steinhem Stan "Geggy" Anderson Roberta Bondair Oprah
Website Resources (in addition to the other Resource Links Civics Links and Religion Links )
www.biography.com (for individuals) www.upbeat.net (for youth) Municipal World Magazine www.municipalworld.com Canadian Red Cross www.redcross.ca International Committee of the Red Cross www.icrc.org Frontier College www.frontiercollege.ca Doctors Without Borders www.dwb.org YMCA www.ymca.ca YWCA www.ywca.org United Nations Declaration of Human Rights http://www.un.org/ Convention on the Rights of the Child http://www.unicef.org/crc/convention.html UNICEF http://www.unicef.org Amnesty International http://www.io.org/amnesty Greenpeace http://www.greenpeacecanada.org World Alliance for Citizen Participation http://www.civicus.org OXFAM Canada http://www.oxfam.ca
World Vision http://worldvision.ca Save The Children Canada www.savethechildren.ca War Child www.warchild.ca United Nations in the Twenty-First Century www.unu.edu/unupress/un21-report.html Scarborough Foreign Missions sfms@web.apc.org Holocaust timelines http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust Ministry of Heritage http://www.pch.gc.ca/credo/ Globe and Mail www.globeandmail.com The National Post www.nationalpost.com The Toronto Star www.thestar.com Maclean’s Magazine www.macleans.ca Time www.time.com Newspapers and Magazines and Editorials http://www.fact.com/eof.htm Vatican www.vatican.org
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Plain Language Version
1. When children are born, they are free and each should be treated in the same way. They have reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a friendly manner.
2. Everyone can claim the following
rights, despite being of a different sex, a different skin colour, speaking a
different language, thinking different things, believing in another religion,
owning more or less, being born in another social group, coming from another
country.
3. You have the right to live, and to live in freedom and safety.
4. Nobody has the right to treat you as his her slave and you should not make anyone your slave.
5. Nobody has the right to torture you.
6. You should be legally protected in the same way everywhere, and like everyone else.
7. The law is the same for everyone; it should be applied in the same way to all.
8. You should be able to ask for legal help when the rights your country grants you are not respected.
9. Nobody has the right to put you in prison, to keep you there, or to send you away from your country unjustly, or without good reason.
10. If you go on trial this should be done in public. The people who try you should not let themselves be influenced by others.
11. You should be considered innocent until it can be proved that you are guilty. If you are accused of a crime, you should always have the right to defend yourself. Nobody has the right to condemn you and punish you for something you have not done.
12. You have the right to ask to be protected if someone tries to harm your good name, enter your house, open your letters, or bother you or your family without a good reason.
13. You have the right to come and go as you wish within your country. You have the right to leave your country to go to another one; and you should be able to return to your country if you want.
14. If someone hurts you, you have the right to go to another country and ask it to protect you. You lose this right if you have killed someone and if you, yourself, do not respect what is written here.
15. You have the right to belong to a country and nobody can prevent you, without a good reason, from belonging country if you wish.
16. As soon as person is legally entitled, he or she has the right to marry and have a family. In doing this, neither the colour of your skin, the country you come from nor your region should be impediments. Men and women have the same rights when they are married and also when they are separated. Nobody should force a person to marry.
17. You have the right to own things and nobody has the right to take these from you without a good reason.
18. You have the right to profess your religion freely, to change it, and to practice it either on your own or with other people.
19. You have the right to think what you want, to say what you like, and nobody should forbid you from doing so. You should be able to share your ideas also—with people from any other country.
20. You have the right to organize peaceful meetings or to take part in meetings in a peaceful way. It is wrong to force someone to belong to a group.
21. You have the right to take part in your country's political affairs either by belonging to the government yourself or by choosing politicians who have the same ideas as you. Governments should be voted for regularly and voting should be secret. You should get a vote and all votes should be equal. You also have the same right to join the public service as anyone else.
22. The society in which you live should help you to develop and to make the most of all the advantages (culture, work, social welfare) which are offered to you and to you and to all the men and women in your country.
23. You have the right to work, to be free to choose your work, to get a salary which allows you to support your family. If a man and a woman do the same work, they should get the same pay. All people who work have the right to join together to defend their interests.
24. Each work day should not be too long, since everyone has the right to rest and should be able to take regular paid holidays.
25. You have the right to have whatever you need so that you and your family: do not fall ill; go hungry; have clothes and a house; and are helped if you are out of work.
26. You have the right to go to school and everyone should go to school. Primary schooling should be free. You should be able to learn a profession or continue your studies as far as wish.
27. You have the right to share in your community's arts and sciences, and any good they do. Your works as an artist, writer, or a scientist should be protected, and you should be able to benefit from them.
28. So that your rights will be respected, there must be an 'order' which can protect them. This ‘order’ should be local and worldwide.
29. You have duties towards the community within which your personality can only fully develop. The law should guarantee human rights. It should allow everyone to respect others and to be respected.
30. In all parts of the world, no society, no human being, should take it upon her or himself to act in such a way as to destroy the rights which your have just been reading about.
This plain language version is only given as a guide. For an exact rendering of each principle, refer students to the original. This version is based in part on the translation of a text, prepared in 1978, for the World Association for the School as an Instrument of Peace, by a Research Group of the University of Geneva, under the responsibility of Prof. L. Massarenti. In preparing the translation, the Group used a basic vocabulary of 2,500 words in use in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Teachers may adopt this methodology by translating the text of the Universal Declaration in the language in use in their region.
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