What are our rights in a democracy?

Before You Begin

Setting the stage for Task 2

Review our driving question: How do our individual and collective stories from Chicago and Rochester expose both resiliency and inequalities within our democracy right now? While we got some background information on Chicago and Rochester during task one, we now need to learn about democracy in the US and our constitution to understand what is within our rights. During this task, the information learned will help you with the next task when we take a deeper look into stories of resiliency and inequalities in Chicago and Rochester.

Let's Continue to Build Community in our schools!

  1. Open our Flipgrid and do the following:

    • Watch 👀 and like 👍a student video from at least 2 students who live in the participating city that you are not from.

    • Reply to an introduction video with a follow-up question or comment in the chat using these sentence stems. 🗭

  2. Open our Instagram page and to the following:

    • Follow our page if you have an account.

    • Find the posts where you get to ask a question about either Chicago or Rochester.

    • Post a question in the comments or feel free to respond to a question 🗭

What are your rights in a democracy according to the united states constitution?

  1. Copy of the notes to help guide your thinking

  2. Review & Take Notes on the slides below if you have missed class or want to review them.

  3. Reflect after learning more about the US constitution and rights,

    • what is something that surprised you? What makes you say that?

    • What is something that was confirmed for you? What makes you say that?

First Amendment

Deliverable: Slido post

  1. Open and Review the following scenario by CLICKING HERE.

  2. Using your knowledge of the constitution, explain your position if Principal Flick terminating or suspending Mr. McCallister violates his freedom of expression even though there are conduct expectations of teachers at the school? Be sure to be able to defend your answer.

    • Use this organizer to help plan your response to meet the criteria listed below.

  3. Open Slido by CLICKING HERE. To see directions on how to post WATCH THIS VIDEO HERE. Answer the prompt.Make sure to:

  • Put your first name, last name, and school- otherwise you post anonymously and we can't give you any credit.

  • Clearly state your position.

  • Refer specifically to the constitution, and support your position.

  • Responses should be at least eight sentences long.

    • Please Note: This Slido goes live on February 9th and you will only have 3 days to post.

  1. Reflect independently. What will you remember most when it comes to your rights and the US Constitiution. Why does that matter most to you?