Activity 2: Rights & Responsibilities

Look back at your top ten statements.  Now try to sort them into rights and responsibilities.  Set out your ideas in a chart like the one below:
 

Rights Responsibilities
Every citizen should pay tax.
 
               
Every citizen should respect and honour the Queen.
 
   
Every citizen should feel safe.
 
   
Every citizen should have a free education.
 
   
Every citizen should have freedom of speech and expression.
 
   
Every citizen should obey the law.
 
   
Every citizen should speak and write English.
 
   
Every citizen should have somewhere warm and clean to live.
 
   
Every citizen should be white.
 
   
Every citizen should have the right to work.
 
   
Every citizen should have enough food to eat and water to drink.
 
   
Every citizen should be Christian.
 
   
Every citizen should work.
 
   
Every citizen should give to charity.
 
   
Every citizen should have equal rights.
 
   
Every citizen should have access to free health care when needed.
 
   
Every citizen should be proud of their country.
 
   
Every citizen should respect other people.
 
   
Every citizen should think for themselves.
 
   
Every citizen should contribute to the good of society.
 
   
Every citizen should…. [add anything else you think is missing]
 
      
    

  • Which of these rights do you think are valued and respected in Britain today?              
  • Why were these rights taken away from some citizens in Nazi Germany?
  • How were these rights taken away from some citizens in Nazi Germany?