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Week 4 Objective: The goal of Week 4 is to dig deeper into how Human Rights are represented in the Constitution and Supreme Court decisions to better be able to evaluate how we, as a country, value human rights. In addition, we will be reviewing basic annotation skills and how to organize an ACQC paragraph. (SS 1.1, ELA 2.1, ELA 4.1, ELA 4.2)
Monday, September 23rd - Students will be presenting how citizens' rights were impacted by the Supreme Court cases assigned to them on Friday.
Questions students need to be prepared to answer:
- What amendment and right is represented in the Supreme Court case?
- Which party feels like their rights were violated? Who are they accuse of violating their rights?
- Did this decision protect or limit citizens' rights? How do you know?
- Briefly describe what happened in the case and how the law was interpreted.
know_your_rights_for_students_and_free_speech.pdfTuesday, September 24th - Revisiting the "Know your rights when stopped by police" article. Using this article and students' work on Constitutional amendments, we will have a discussion on how rights should be applied and how rights are sometimes applied.
ACLU Documents
ACLU - Police Immigration FBI Know Your Rights.pdfWednesday, September 25th and Thursday, September 26th - Using student work as a foundation, we will review expectations for both annotation skills and writing an ACQC paragraph. (ELA 2.1, ELA 4.1, ELA 4.2)
Pushed to Next Week - "Know Your Rights" Essay Introduction. Students will be asked to analyze social issues that exist in their neighborhoods and evaluate if the social issue meets the definition of a human rights violation. Students will need to be able to look at what human rights they can identify in the Constitution as it exists and propose a potential Constitutional amendment that would solve the social issue that they are exploring.
Friday, September 27th - NO SCHOOL TODAY
CHECKS FOR UNDERSTANDING
CHECKS FOR UNDERSTANDING
Daily Do Nows
Daily Do Nows
Bi-Weekly Binder Checks
Bi-Weekly Binder Checks
Student Discussions
Student Discussions
Student Classwork
Student Classwork
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