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ENGLISH 4
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Amendment Essay and Collaboration
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Session Objectives
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Today you will be able to:
Work with other students.
Connect current events to the Bill of Rights.
Identify elements of explanatory writing.
Analyze explanatory writing.
Prepare for your Amendment essay.
What do you think?
A. Freedom of Speech should never be restricted.
B. Speech should be restricted in certain instances.
C. Speech should be restricted in certain instances
in schools.
D. Speech should be restricted in certain instances
on the internet and social media.
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How do you know?
Bill of Rights Video
Bill of Rights
• The task was tricky: define personal liberties for
a new nation and for its future.
• How are technological advances changing the
way we look at the Bill of Rights?
• Have you ever wondered how our technologyinfused nation is maintained by documents
written before the discovery of electricity?
• In this Module, you will work to find out how
one specific personal freedom in the Bill of
Rights has been maintained
over time.
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress
of grievances.
First Amendment
In 2011, a California high school student was
suspended for making rude remarks about a
teacher on Facebook. The student sued the
school for violating her freedom of speech.
First Amendment – Debate!
Question: Do you think a school should have
the right to discipline students for remarks
posted to social media made on students'
own time?
• Develop three points to support your
argument.
First Amendment – Debate!
Stance: Schools should be able to discipline
students for comments posted on social
media.
Three Points:
First Amendment – Debate!
Stance: Students should not be disciplined for
comments posted on social media.
Three Points:
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Comprehension Check
The Bill of Rights are:
A. Nearly 200 years old
B. The most widely-debated
portion of our Constitution
C. Intended to protect the
rights of Americans
D. All of the above
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Which Amendment did/would you
choose and why?
Amendment Essay
Components of your essay:
• Informing/Explaining your amendment
• 1 Landmark case and 2 contemporary cases to
frame your discussion
• Research to support your information (quotes
from sources and works cited page)
Essay Components
“At some schools, big brother is watching”
by Kelly Wallace
• Introduction
• Examples
• In-Text Citations
• Domain Specific Vocabulary
Introduction
Just as parents are grappling with how to keep their kids safe on social
media, schools are increasingly confronting a controversial question:
Should they do more to monitor students' online interactions off-campus
to protect them from dangers such as bullying, drug use, violence and
suicide?
Last summer, the Glendale school district in suburban Los Angeles
captured headlines with its decision to pay a tech firm $40,500 to monitor
what middle and high school students post publicly on Facebook, Twitter
and other social media.
The school district went with the firm Geo Listening after a pilot program
with the company last spring helped a student who was talking on social
media about "ending his life," company CEO Chris Frydrych told CNN's
Michael Martinez in September.
"We were able to save a life," said Richard Sheehan, the Glendale
superintendent, adding that two students in the school district had
committed suicide the past two years.
What is the purpose of this introduction?
How do you know?
Highlight and discuss the elements that illustrate this.
Examples
The issue of just what kids may be doing to each other online gained even
more attention after a 12-year-old Florida girl, Rebecca Sedwick, who was
repeatedly cyberbullied, jumped to her death in September.
Two girls, ages 12 and 14, were arrested and charged with aggravated
stalking, accused of sending Sedwick messages such as "Why aren't you
dead?" and "Wait a minute, why are you still alive?" (Those charges were
eventually dropped.)
Wayne Blanton, executive director of the Florida School Boards
Association, said the school was aware of on-campus bullying of Sedwick
and dealt with it by separating the students and putting them in different
classes, but it was not aware of the off-campus bullying -- online -- that
was taking place.
Under a Florida law that went into effect in July, before Sedwick's death, if
parents or students notify a school about suspected bullying off-campus,
the school has the authority to look at a student's Facebook posts and emails, according to Blanton.
What is the relationship between this incident and the
first amendment?
What purpose does this example serve in the essay?
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Comprehension Check
Informative/Explanatory Writing:
A. Increases the readers
knowledge
B. Focuses on facts
C. Explains a process or
procedure
D. All of the above
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In-Text Citations
Daniel Domenech, executive director of the American Association of
School Administrators, the school superintendents association, said it's
"not always clear" legally what can be done and what is within the scope
of the district's authority.
"In one state, the court will support the district and say, 'absolutely, you
have the right to do that.' In a very similar situation in another court, the
court will rule 'absolutely not, it's freedom of speech,' " Domenech said.
"So the whole legal issue right now is very much up in the air."
Cases in point: In September in Nevada, a federal appeals court backed
school officials in the suspension of a high school student who allegedly
threatened his classmates with violence on Myspace. But in Indiana in
2011, a court found that school officials had violated students' free
speech rights when two girls were suspended from extracurricular
activities for posting pictures of themselves with inappropriately shaped
lollipops.
What choice would you have made in these two cases?
Highlight the in-text citations.
What purpose do they serve?
What portion of this excerpt would benefit from a
citation?
Domain Specific Vocabulary
Domenech, who represents public school superintendents, said that at this stage,
he thinks only a "very small number" of districts are actively monitoring students
online, primarily because they don't have the staffing or the money to hire a firm
to help.
Instead of more schools trying to follow the Glendale district's lead, Blanton of
the Florida School Boards Association believes schools should mount a major
public relations campaign targeting students and parents, letting them know it's
OK to report anything of concern they see online.
He compares it to an ad campaign in Florida from about 15 years ago encouraging
students to report any weapons they see on campus. Now, 90% of guns found on
school premises in the state are reported by students, he said.
"We have to get to the same point with when you see a student (or) another
student sees a student being bullied, or a parent knows about a Facebook
account, they have to let us know," Blanton said.
In the end, prevention is better than high-tech surveillance, said Domenech.
"I think most school districts don't want to become NSAs," he said. "We don't see
that that is really our role."
What conclusions can we draw about social media, school,
and free speech?
Highlight domain specific vocabulary words.
What is the effect of using
domain-specific vocabulary?
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Comprehension Check
A. Using precise language
makes me look smart.
B. If I vary the nouns and
verbs of my sentences, my
teacher will give me a
higher grade.
C. Precise and accurate
language gives me
credibility
D. Both B and C
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Writing Components
What is a skill, tip, or idea you
have learned that has helped you
in your own writing?
How can you use it for an
explanatory essay?
Collaboration Product
Write a paragraph response (5 sentences per paragraph in length) about the
topics we discussed today. Please answer the following question with
specific details from the text.
Submit the date and time of the session you attended.
Paragraph
• Discuss which amendment you did or
would choose to write about. What
interests you about the amendment
and why is it important?
Collaboration Reflection
Write a paragraph response (5 sentences per paragraph in length) about our session
today and working with other students. Be sure to answer all of the following
questions.
Submit the date and time of the session you attended.
Paragraph
• How did your learning in this live session compare with
your experience in learning on your own in the course
or in a traditional classroom?
• Describe your comfort level in participating in the
collaboration activity.
• Would you describe yourself as being a contributor of
information or a receiver of information during the
session? Explain.
• How did the use of technology affect your learning
experience during the session?
• In what way did the interaction with the instructor and
other students impact your learning?
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