Civil & Human Rights IDU

During three of the last four days of school, Grade 10 participated in an interdisciplinary unit, between language and literature, theatre and individuals and societies. The focus of this IDU was Civil and Human Rights, with students having free choice of the topic they wanted to explore.
As we have complicated timetabling, with some classes being split into trimesters, some into semesters, and some mixed grades...it means that it is sometimes complicated to do an IDU, which is why we often do them as a short off-time table event. This one was a little different, as they had been looking at civil and human rights in their different subjects throughout the year, in the lead up to this unit!

Factual – Who has and is being treated unfairly. How are people being treated unfairly? What speeches or essays have changed the world?
Conceptual – How and why can powerful communication change the world?
Debatable – Are actions stronger than words or is the pen mightier than the sword?

The plan for the three days was:

• Day One: Visit the Center for Civil and Human Rights, have a tour of the museum in the morning, then have a buffet of activities in the afternoon, all in the private function room.
  
  
• Day Two: Have a warm up activity at school, then break into three large groups, where students would rotate through three workshops (Theatre, Language and Literature and a technology/task related workshop). In the afternoon students would have two hours to get into their groups, pick their topic an start researching.
  
  
• Day Three: Students had four hours in the morning to create, rehearse and perfect their presentations. In the afternoon, students would perform these in the theatre space. I made a Google Form for grading, so that we could live grade, we also gave a group grade and feedback, to allow for quick and easy grading. After school that evening I put together a feedback sheet for each group, with the grades each student had given them, along with a best fit grade, and the comments. I also uploaded a video of each performance for us to look back on!
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The Final Task:
Inspired by Pecha Kuchas, which are presentations of 20 slides, at exactly 20 seconds each, we decided to use this model to have students be clear and concise, be purposeful when choosing the images and facts they would display, and....because we have 100 students in Grade 10! 

Here is the task sheet:

Coming soon...posts about each day and some student work!