San Diego Jewish Academy 9th and 10th Grade Humanities How are we to live? Unit

• "A Song of Nezhualcoyotyl" from the Aztec Indians
• "I Am a Savage" by Chief Seattle
• excerpts from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• The Constitution of the Unites States
• United Nations Declaration of Human Rights: http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/index.asp
• Understanding Human Rights: http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/about/understanding.asp
• "The Rise of Democratic Ideas" from World History: Perspectives on the Past California Framework Case Studies
• current news articles

• What are my own essential ingredients?
• What sources do I use for my answer?
• Write a paragraph explaining your answer and quoting at least two sources of your own.

• What are some of the essential ingredients of the U.S. Constitution and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights that influence political systems in the contemporary world?
• How do these essentials reflect democratic ideals?
• Create a found poem using words from all the readings. The found poem should answer these questions.

• Do any of your essential ingredients overlap with the essential ingredients of these political documents?
• Create a Venn diagram to find the similarities and differences.