Language Development

Use Your Rights to Change the World

Vocabulary: Civil Rights

Language: Express Wants and Feelings

Right to Share Ideas

Right to Share Ideas

newspaper

computer with the Internet

We can print our ideas in a newspaper or publish them over the Internet.

Right to Meet and Express Ideas

Right to Meet and Express Ideas

banner

protester

protest sign

We can protest something we do not like.

Right to Vote

Right to Vote

ballot

When we vote in an election, we choose our leaders.

Oral Language Practice

EXPRESS WANTS AND FEELINGS

1.–3. Who’s talking? illustration of compact disc icon

Listen. Point to the correct picture.

Talk to a partner about what each person wants and feels.

Written Practice illustration of pen icon

4. What do you want to change at your school? How can you make those changes? Work with your class to make a chart like this.

    Example
  • 4.

    What to ChangeWho Makes the DecisionWhat Strategies to Use
    have art class for everyoneschool boardgo to school board meetings, write letters