How to Use My Rights and Responsibilities
This activity aims for students to learn ways to be responsible based on their rights.
Discuss
You have learned about some of your rights, and these rights come with responsibilities. These rights and responsibilities matter to you and how you live your life every day. Knowing your rights and practicing your responsibilities helps you advocate for yourself and what you want. Let’s learn more about our responsibilities.
After watching this video, who can share a way they have advocated for themselves? Is it easy or hard to do? What helps you when you need to advocate for yourself?
Review
This activity can be done in a small group or individually. Instructors work with students to choose which one or they can choose to do both. Students can pull some Rights Scenario Cards which are related to an individual’s rights. Students can explore, discuss, or debate various ways to handle the situation using self-advocacy skills.
Reflect
Now that you have learned about rights and responsibilities, complete the Rights and Responsibilities section of the Self-Evaluation Worksheet.
Extending the Conversation
Review
In a small group or individually, students will use the Knowing My Responsibilities Worksheet that lists each of the rights they learned about in the Bill of Rights video in Activity 2. Learners will review a right listed and then fill in their responsibility related to that right in the empty bubble. Based on time, do as many as you can. There is an example of the first page.