Ethics, Justice & Shared Power
Objectives
- D09.S1.07.01 Apply a simple framework (such as who is helped, who is harmed, and what is fair) to a moral question.
- D09.S1.07.02 Explain how someone's background, culture, or position can shape what they think is right.
- D09.S2.07.01 Analyze a case of inequality or injustice, identifying who is affected, who benefits, and what would make it more just.
- D09.S2.07.02 Explain what human rights are and analyze a case where they were honored or violated.
- D09.S3.07.01 Analyze how people influence decisions in their society, such as voting, protest, petitions, or organizing, and the limits of each.
- D09.S3.07.02 Explain what civil society is and how groups and movements act for the common good when government does not.
- D09.S4.07.01 Apply restorative steps (listening, taking responsibility, and repairing harm) to a real or role-played conflict.
- D09.S4.07.02 Explain how power and hurt can make conflict worse, and how to address them without violence.
Essential questions
- How do I reason about a moral question — who is helped, who is harmed, what is fair?
- What are human rights, and how do people influence decisions and act for the common good?
- How do I restore after harm, and address conflict without violence?
Big ideas
- A moral question can be reasoned about with a framework of who is helped, harmed, and what is fair — and people's backgrounds shape what they think is right.
- Human rights belong to all people, and people influence their society through voting, protest, petitions, and organizing, and through civil society.
- Restorative steps — listening, taking responsibility, repairing harm — and addressing power and hurt without violence are how conflict is mended.
Lessons
- 1 Three Questions: Helped, Harmed, Fair 50 minutes
- 2 Using the Three Questions 50 minutes
- 3 Where Our Ideas of Right and Wrong Come From 50 minutes
- 4 Seeing Injustice: Affected, Benefiting, Just 50 minutes
- 5 What Are Human Rights? 50 minutes
- 6 A Human-Rights Case: Honored and Violated 50 minutes
- 7 Influencing Decisions: Voting, Protest, Petitions, Organizing 50 minutes
- 8 Civil Society: Acting for the Common Good 50 minutes
- 9 Restoring After Harm: Listen, Take Responsibility, Repair 50 minutes
- 10 Power, Hurt, and Conflict Without Violence 55 minutes
Assessment plan
Observation of moral-framework reasoning, injustice-case analysis, and restorative practice; a moral-question analysis, a human-rights case study, a people-influence-decisions analysis, and a role-played restorative resolution as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 10 — Ethics, Justice & Shared Power
Overview
This unit turns questions of fairness and justice inward to the self and the group, building on Grade 6’s fact-versus-belief-versus-value and its democracy-versus- alternatives work. Learners apply a simple framework — who is helped, who is harmed, what is fair — to a moral question, and explain how someone’s background, culture, or position can shape what they think is right. They analyze a case of inequality or injustice, identifying who is affected, who benefits, and what would make it more just, and explain what human rights are and analyze a case where they were honored or violated. They analyze how people influence decisions in their society — voting, protest, petitions, organizing — and the limits of each, and explain what civil society is and how groups and movements act for the common good when government does not. They apply restorative steps — listening, taking responsibility, repairing harm — to a real or role-played conflict, and explain how power and hurt can make conflict worse, and how to address them without violence. Questions are held as questions, never answered as dogma.
Essential questions
- How do I reason about a moral question — who is helped, who is harmed, what is fair?
- What are human rights, and how do people influence decisions and act for the common good?
- How do I restore after harm, and address conflict without violence?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three Questions: Helped, Harmed, Fair | D09.S1.07.01 |
| 2 | Using the Three Questions | D09.S1.07.01 |
| 3 | Where Our Ideas of Right and Wrong Come From | D09.S1.07.02 |
| 4 | Seeing Injustice: Affected, Benefiting, Just | D09.S2.07.01 |
| 5 | What Are Human Rights? | D09.S2.07.02 |
| 6 | A Human-Rights Case: Honored and Violated | D09.S2.07.02 |
| 7 | Influencing Decisions: Voting, Protest, Petitions, Organizing | D09.S3.07.01 |
| 8 | Civil Society: Acting for the Common Good | D09.S3.07.02 |
| 9 | Restoring After Harm: Listen, Take Responsibility, Repair | D09.S4.07.01 |
| 10 | Power, Hurt, and Conflict Without Violence | D09.S4.07.02, D09.S4.07.01 |