The Rights of Children

We are starting an area of learning about the rights of children.  The students are brainstorming about what they know or think they know about children's lives around the world.  They came up with quite a list.  They focused a lot on what children don't have.  So I asked the question: What should all children have the right to?

The students have a pretty good grasp on the topic.

Then we brainstormed what we want to find out

We read a book that had a shortened version of the stories of Malala and Iqbal.  Two children from Pakistan.  The students briefly talked to each other about what struck them from the stories.  The. They went back to their desks and wrote about what they were thinking.