Stand Up for Your Rights

By World Book, Inc.

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716603527
• ISBN13: 9780716603528
• Release Date: January 1852
• Publisher: World Book Inc
• Weight: 11.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 9.0" x 0.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Great for use in classroom--any age!

I originally purchased this book as background material for myself when I was teaching The Chosen at a high school in Arizona. It became instrumental in 2001 when, during the first few weeks of teaching at a new school in Missouri, Sept. 11th occurred. Using the book, I had my students research one of the articles of the Human Rights Declaration, and explain how a person, industry, country, or organization, is helping to secure this right for people around the world. It put a positive spin on a world-shattering event. The high school students LOVED the class book we created, and Human Rights became a sort-of theme for our classes the remainder of the year. Now, at a new school in Kansas, with students who are extremely sheltered from everything that is going on in the world, I am once again planning to use the book as a springboard for a similar class book project. Though I did this with high schoolers, age-appropriate projects could be done with students at any level. Each article in the book is accompanied by international student drawings and details about human rights violations experienced personally by children around the world. It is very easy for American students to connect with their peers around the world by reading the examples set forth in the book. It makes what is happening in the world more understandable than just hearing a newscaster talk about it on tv. I would love to see a new, post 9/11 edition.

Great Learning Tool for Children and Adults

Stand up for Your Rights is a fascinating and informative book. Written by youth from around the world, this book puts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into terms that everyone can understand. Photographs, drawings by children, first-person narratives and explanatory paragraphs make this a very readable and eye-catching book. As an ESOL teacher with young students from around the world, I find this book to be unparalleled in offering a view of life that doesn't always make it into the daily news or the movies. I highly recommend this book for anyone of any age who wants to learn more about our world and its people.