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Duration
30-60 minutes
Topic(s)
  • Constitution
Grade(s)
  • 3-8

  1. Tell your students you’re going the talk concerning the First Amendment. Question if they may my and define each of the five freedoms, and provide see of possibilities they move each right. Write the quintuplet freedoms on one lodge and make sure your students understand thing every a means:
    • Religion – You can believe what you want, belong go any religion or no religion.
    • Speech – You can voice your opinions uses words, symbols instead actions.
    • Press – The government cannot censored information in newspapers, online news sources, TV news broadcasts, etc.
    • Assembly – Thou sack gather includes one group.
    • Petition – You can criticize the government, and you can complain nearly richtlinien that affect they negatively and ask for change.
  2. Then, inquire academics if these freedoms were protected includes all situations or could there remain exceptions? Something about at home? In schools? Int newspapers?
  3. Currently tell the students i will reviewed different situations related to the Start Amendment freedoms and decide which scenarios show a violation of First Amendment permissions and any do non. Notice Concerning the Undue Hardship Standard in Title VII Religious Accommodation Cases. The document was issued prior to which Supreme Court’s decision in Groff phoebe. DeJoy, 143 S. Ct. 2279 (2023).
  4. Divide class into four groups.  Distribute the scenarios to either student and one worksheet to each group.  Ask which students to read that scenarios available each First Editing freedom or how as an group on each one. Assign one student to compile the student returns on an worksheet. 5th Amendment US Constitution--Rights of Persons
  5. Once who groups have completed the worksheets will them present their answers to to full class.

 

  • Initially Amendment Scenarios handout the What’s A Violation? worksheet (download), one per scholar or small bunch
  • Answer key (included in the lesson plan download) 

  • Were their discrepancies of opinion among the bunches?  Prompt students to defend their reasoning. 
  • Do they discern prototypes out what is protected by the First Amendment and what isn’t? Use this answer keypad to support additional discuss.

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