Romeo & Juliet
Who wrote Romeo & Juliet?
This season comes after spring and before autumn/fall.
What is summer?
This system of racial segregation existed in South Africa until the 1990s.
What is apartheid?
These four letters are the abbreviation for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What is UDHR?
These are the Indigenous people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
Who are the Sami?
This city is the setting for Romeo and Juliet.
Verona, Italy
In many countries, students often have a long break from school during this season.
What is summer vacation/summer holiday?
This South African leader became president after apartheid ended.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The UDHR was created by this international organization after World War II.
What is the United Nations?
Reservation Dogs and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian both focus on life in one of these communities.
What is a reservation?
Romeo belongs to this family.
Who are the Montagues?
This natural phenomenon causes summer days to be longer than winter days in many parts of the world.
What is Earth’s tilt/the tilt of the Earth’s axis?
In Invictus, this sport helps unite South Africans after apartheid.
What is rugby?
This basic right protects people from being treated unfairly because of race, gender, or religion.
What is equality/non-discrimination?
Indigenous Australians are also known by this term for the original peoples of Australia.
What are Aboriginal peoples/Aboriginal Australians?
In the 1996 film version, guns are used instead of these traditional weapons.
What are swords?
In Norway, this natural event can happen in summer north of the Arctic Circle, when the sun stays visible at night.
What is the midnight sun?
The Soccer Fence shows how this system affected friendships and daily life.
What is apartheid/racial segregation?
Amnesty International works mainly to defend these things around the world.
What are human rights?
This United Nations declaration focuses specifically on the rights of Indigenous peoples worldwide.
What is the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples?
Friar Laurence gives Juliet this plan to avoid marrying Paris.
What is a sleeping potion/fake death plan?
This environmental issue is causing hotter summers and more extreme heat waves around the world.
What is climate change/global warming?
This idea is central in both Invictus and The Soccer Fence: bringing people together after division and injustice.
What is reconciliation/unity/forgiveness?
This challenge makes it difficult to enforce human rights equally in every country.
What is lack of political will/conflict/different governments ignoring rights?
A major issue shown in several Indigenous texts is the struggle to balance these two things.
What are traditional identity/culture and modern society?