The implementation of the Detroit (Michigan) human rights curriculum at the high school level is done through a series of classroom activities and resources appropriate for high school students. Each of the lessons is structured around one of the 10 major goals identified in the curriculum and provides objectives, learner outcomes, activities, and resources. Understanding the interdependence of people is carried out by having students engage in activities designed to show that the needs and wants of all people are the same and are provided by the earth's finite resources that are the heritage of all humanity. Various activities are designed to help students understand the similarities of ethnic groups, such as the study of the traditional "rites of passage" for different cultures. Among many activities designed to develop an appreciation of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, students are asked to describe documents that protect them from injustice. An example of activities developed to understand how governments at the national, state, and local levels affect one's human rights, students role play a situation of conflict between two confederate states. To understand how human rights contribute to human dignity and self-esteem, students discuss and analyze laws and practices that were developed to protect either males or females and determine how they became "two-edged swords" that afforded and denied protection. (SM)