I Have No Right to Be Silent, the Human Rights Legacy of Rabbi Marshall T
I Have No Right to Be Silent, The Human Rights Legacy of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Learning Activities for Students of Spanish and Latin American Studies Dominique Gálvez The Early College Experience Program, The Dodd Center, El Instituto and the Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at the University of Connecticut 1 I Have No Right to Be Silent, The Human Rights Legacy of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Curriculum Overview The learning activities developed for this unit of study are based on various themes presented in Duke University’s traveling exhibit I Have No Right to Be Silent, The Human Rights Legacy of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer and incorporates the use of original documents that are available online in the Marshall T. Meyer Papers from the Duke University Libraries Digital Collection. The learning activities in this unit help students consider the roles and responsibilities that individuals have when faced with human rights violations in their communities. It also provides a context for considering the impact that one individual can have by choosing to not remain silent or indifferent when others are being oppressed. In this unit, students will review Marshall Meyer’s sermons, anecdotes and short stories about Marshall Meyer, correspondence with political prisoners, human rights documents, photographs, newspaper headlines, political cartoons, testimonies, literature and excerpts from the CONADEP report to learn about the last military dictatorship in Argentina and fully appreciate the actions that Marshall Meyer took to defend human rights. The concepts of memory, democracy, human rights, social activism, and Jewish identity are woven into this curriculum. These activities have been designed for students who have an intermediate to advanced level of Spanish proficiency, although they could be modified for other levels of language proficiency.
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