Extra credit opportunity: show up with friends or family and take copious notes! Turn in a copy of your notes on Monday.
Here is some additional information about this important book.
Which stories will become history?
The Final Exam is Wednesday, January 23rd.
- 2:00 - 3:30 pm
- Room 322
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Proctor:
Dawn SullivanAlex Howe
In preparation for the final exam:
Listen (below) to this 30-minute podcast from The Daily (NYTimes):
Interested in last year's Final Exam? Note the subject matter, the grading rubric, and the common challenges encountered with the writing.
Here is the class's first attempt at guessing the topic. Remember, I will narrow (or add to) the list for a grand total of 5 topics by Friday. Ultimately, it's MUCH more important to be familiar with the requirements of the exam than it is to guess the topic!
Social Media and Free Speech
This quiz is based on real scenarios as well as Facebook's own censorship guidelines, which were released publicly in 2018. Your task: Imagine that you yourself are a censor for hire, a "cleaner" whose job it is to monitor a social media feed. Get into the mindset of these real-life cleaners and try to guess what they actually decided. Do you delete or ignore?
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/delete-or-ignore-pretend-youre-a-facebook-content-moderator/
Freedom of Speech?
Where would you place limits on Americans' right to free expression? Please take the following anonymous survey:
Mural by Conor Harrington:
VoiceThread due before Break
Reminder: Constitution Test tomorrow (Tuesday)
VoiceThread (not the slides below) is now available online:
This Day in History
From the
Zinn Education Project:
"On Dec. 16, 1965, a group of students—Christopher Eckhardt (16 years old), John F. Tinker (15 years old), Mary Beth Tinker (13 years old), Hope Tinker (11 years old), Paul Tinker (8 years old)—wore black armbands to school to protest
the war in Vietnam. The school board got wind of the protest and passed a preemptive ban. When the students arrived at school on December 16, they were asked to remove the armband. When the students refused, they were sent home.
The students were suspended and told they could not return to school until they agreed to remove their armbands.
Represented by the ACLU, the students and their families embarked on a four-year court battle that culminated in the landmark Supreme Court decision: Tinker v. Des Moines. On February 24, 1969, the Court ruled 7-2 that students do not “shed their constitutional
rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
The Court ruled that the First Amendment applied to public schools, and school officials could not censor student speech unless it disrupted the educational process. Because wearing a black armband was not disruptive, the Court held that the First Amendment
protected the right of students to wear one. [Adapted from a post by the ACLU.]
Read an article by Mary Beth Tinker about the case, including the connection to Burnside v. Byars, a Mississippi case that set the precedence for Tinker v. Des Moines.