Last time you began Our human rights timeline. Today you finish it. When it opens in a few minutes, the entries the class agreed last time go back on first. Then you use clear tests to decide which entries carry the most weight, defend your choice, and agree one shared full version the class will keep.

Last time you asked what changed when a rights idea landed. Today that question becomes three load-bearing tests you will use on the timeline.

You will apply the tests straight away when you pick and defend your three.

Open Our human rights timeline. Your teacher puts back the entries the class agreed last time, then your group follows the steps in the timeline. The support list below has entries you can add, each with its track and era. A few groups will defend their three briefly at the end, and the class keeps a record of the full board.

Support list

• English Bill of Rights (1689): Documents, Early foundations. Parliament sets written limits on the crown.
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1790s): People, Revolutions and declarations. Argues that the rights claimed for men must include women.
• US Bill of Rights (1791): Documents, Revolutions and declarations. First ten amendments naming freedoms the state must respect.
• Haitian Revolution (1791 to 1804): Events, Revolutions and declarations. Enslaved people win independence and force a rights claim the era had denied them.
• Slavery Abolition Act (1833): Documents, Revolutions and declarations. Britain abolishes slavery across much of the empire.
• 1916 Proclamation: Documents, Revolutions and declarations. Claims equal rights and equal opportunities for all Irish citizens.
• Votes for women (early twentieth century): Events, Rights expand. Campaigns win the vote for women in many countries, including Ireland.
• 1951 Refugee Convention: Documents, A world answer. Defines who is a refugee and the protection states owe them.
• European Convention on Human Rights (1950): Documents, A world answer. Council of Europe treaty; individuals can take states to court over rights.
• Civil rights marches (1950s and 1960s): Events, Rights expand. Public action forces states to end legal segregation and widen equal treatment.
• Helsinki Accords (1975): Documents, Rights expand. States agree human-rights commitments that later claims use.
• UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979): Documents, Rights expand. Global treaty on equal rights for women.

Write one sentence that connects your top entry to something true for you today. Use this stem: Because of …, today I … . Be ready to read it out. Then hear two or three from the room.

You completed Our human rights timeline across four eras, with documents, people and events on parallel tracks. You used clear tests, built from asking what changed, to defend which entries carry the most weight, and you agreed one shared full version for the class to keep. You can now point to five or more key moments in how human rights were argued into existence, and say how one of them still touches your life.