To be familiar with the Human Rights Act To know how the Human Rights Act works To be aware of how the Human Rights Act has protected rights in the UK

By the end of the lesson you should: Know what citizenship involves Decide what qualities you think makes a good citizen - Understand what you will be learning in Citizenship this year

1. To consider whether all rights are absolute 2. To understand that in some circumstances the rights of different people have to be balanced

To decide what qualities make a good citizen; to understand why society needs rules.

LOs: Know what you will be learning about in citizenship Decide what qualities you think makes a good citizen

LOs 1.To know what a stereotype is (L3) 2.To understand that teenagers can be stereotyped (L4) 3.To discuss why teenagers are sometimes negatively stereotyped.(L5)

LOs: 1. To explain what effect crime has on the people involved. (Level 4) 2. To understand that balancing rights of different people can be hard to do. (Level 5)

The Age of Criminal Responsibility LO 1. To know the age of criminal responsibility 2. To form your own opinion about the age of criminal responsibility

The Age of Criminal Responsibility Writing Scaffold:I think that the age that young people should be held responsible for their crimes should be age .....

Crown court drawing to be labelled with the appropriate people and where they stand.

Your task: You must imagine that you are the parent of one of the joy riders. Write your personal account from his/her point of view.

Students rate a range of crimes on how serious they perceive them to be.

Read an article about a teenager banned from swearing. Answer the comprehension questions.

LOs To know what anti-social behaviour is (Level 3) To understand why an ASBO is given (Level 4) To persuade teenagers against doing anti-social behaviour (Level 5)

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Cloze Activity

Human Rights definition cloze activity.

A crossword getting students to think about citizens and citizenship and what a good citizen is.

Your task is to create a new set of 8 rules for school that are fair. They must be fair for everyone in the school community..... Pupils, teachers, parents, caretakers, office staff etc.

• With your partner, read through the list of 10 new school rules • Show whether you think each rule is fair or unfair by either ticking the box marked ‘Fair’ or the box marked ‘Unfair’

Issues we study in Citizenship in a crossword format.