What Are My Rights?

What are my rights and where do they come from?

In this class we will be exploring the rights and responsibilities of American citizens and where they originated. Our cornerstones will be documents like the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, as well as landmark Supreme Court Cases that changed the way we look at some of our rights and privileges.

But we also want to understand how this can impact our daily lives and apply to us specifically. In other words- who cares and how does this affect me?

“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.”

— Thurgood Marshall, 1978 University of Virginia commencement speech

HOMEWORK/THINGS TO KNOW

September 21: The students were given the Declaration of Independence to read and annotate for next week. Below are the annotation instructions:

Separate into three sections according to Got Grievances packet(final paragraph):

1) rights of the people and government protection

2) grievances/complaints

3) the colonies break with Great Britain

draw squiggly lines under confusing sections or things you don't understand
underline connections to ideas from the philosophers covered in the Philosophically Correct packet

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