Exercising Your Rights
Overview
In the last unit, we looked at our rights and responsibilities as citizens.
In this session, you will begin to explore and demonstrate your knowledge of civil responsibility and disobedience. You will be analyzing constitutional rights and past court cases. With this, you will synthesize your understanding of current policies and laws.
Introduction
In this session, you will...
- Reflect on your responsibilities and rights in various situations
- Analyze the 1st amendment via a Landmark Supreme Court Case
- Evaluate the acts of civil disobedience via an essay
Exercising Your Rights
"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen."
-Aristotle
Knowing how our government works is one thing, participating in our government is another. In the following unit, you will learn what you can and cannot do as a citizen of the United States to exercise your rights.
Go to the next section to begin your first assignment of this session.
Civic Rights and Responsibilities
What does it mean to have civic responsibilities? Just as we have rights and responsibilities at home and school, citizens of a community have rights and responsibilities.
Create these lists and answer the questions:
- Make a list of your rights at home, school and in the community you live in.
- Make a list of your responsibilities at home, school and in the community you live in.
- What rights do all Americans have?
- What does a "good citizen" look like?
Submit your work as a Word Document via your Brady Gmail account.
Freedom of Speech in School
Explore the 1st Amendment and the Supreme Court's Ruling on Tinker v. Des Moines to answer this question: Should students be allowed to display the Confederate flag in school?
Submit your work via your Brady Gmail account.
Analyze the following primary source documents. View parts 1-4, they will help you answer the questions in the viewing guide.
- Part 1: Tinker v. Des Moines Video
Civil Disobedience
Procedure:
Address the assigned articles by composing an essay response of 350-500 words. To guide the essay, you may wish to answer questions such as the following:
Submit your work as a Word Document via your Brady Gmail account.
Did I Submit It?
Now that you have a better understanding about demonstrating your responsibilities as a citizen, let's make sure that you completed all the assignments in this session before moving on to the last session of this Unit.
√ I submitted it!
- U3S3 -Civic Rights and Responsibilities lists and questions
- U3S3 -Freedom of Speech in School Viewing Guide
- U3S3 -Civil Disobedience essay response
Let's move on to the final session of the course!
