Balancing Rights and Responsibilities

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes one of today’s learning intentions?

• We are learning how to make new rights

•  We are learning about the balance between rights and responsibilities

• We are learning about how to remove laws

• We are learning how to ignore responsibilities

Multiple Choice

Rights are freedoms and protections that people have. One example is the right to vote.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Responsibilities are optional duties that people can choose to follow.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

How do rights and responsibilities work together?

• Rights are more important than responsibilities.
• Responsibilities should be ignored for personal freedom.
• Rights and responsibilities are unrelated concepts.
• Responsibilities protect rights and keep society fair.

Match

Match each right with its related responsibility:

• Stay informed on issues

• Speak responsibly

• Serve on a jury

Right to vote

Freedom of speech

Right to a fair trial

• Right to vote

• Freedom of speech

• Right to a fair trial

Multiple Select

Which of the following are examples of rights that can conflict? (Select all that apply.)

• Freedom of speech vs. public safety

• Right to privacy vs. national security

• Right to own a pet vs. the right to free speech

• Right to protest vs. right to peace and quiet

Fill in the Blank

One of today’s learning intentions is: We are learning how the rule of ____ ensures fairness.

Multiple Choice

Laws help balance rights and responsibilities by preventing harm and protecting freedoms.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

• Rights give us __________, but responsibilities keep society ____.

• chaotic, unstructured

• freedoms, fair

• disorderly, fair

• orderly, fair

Multiple Choice

What was the main focus of today’s lesson?

• How to remove responsibilities from laws

• How rights and responsibilities work together

• Why only some people have rights

• The history of voting rights