Lesson+04-21-08

**Announcements **

 As we begin the 3rd week of the quarter I want to recognize the difficulty many of you have faced getting started. Since many of you are still working to catch-up from last weeks testing and field trip I will have a shorter lesson for today. If you finish this lesson early I strongly encourage you to complete the extra credit assignment from 04-17-08.  Please put in extra effort to get caught up by the next lesson, it is crucial that we all move forward together from this point.

Please make sure that you have registered at the following locations:

[|nicenet.org] (this is where you will log into your classes each day and find a link to the current lesson)

and

[|blogger.com] (this is where you will post your online journal)

As always, please be sure to report any broken links to me through the nicenet interface.


 * Objectives**

 Today you will: 
 * 1) identify freedoms that are most important to you and connect them to the Bill of Rights
 * 2) analyze various situations affected by the Bill of Rights
 * 3) complete missing assignments


 * Step 1**

 Think about the 2-3 freedoms that are most import to you. What are they? Why are these freedoms so important to you? Can you think of a time when you have been denied one of these freedoms? How did it make you feel? What did you or could you have done about it?

In a separate window open a link to the [|Bill of Rights] by clicking [|here].

Do any of the first 10 amendments to the constitution apply to your freedoms? Which ones? How do these amendments relate to your chosen freedoms? Explain your answer in a well-written post to conferencing topic #4 "Freedoms" on [|nicenet].


 * NEXT LESSON YOU WILL FINALIZE YOU THOUGHTS ON THIS TOPIC AND POST A JOURNAL RESPONSE ON YOUR BLOG**


 * Step 2**


 * Bill of Rights Work Sheet Text**

Directions: Read each scenario below. Explain in a couple of sentences whether you agree or disagree with each statement. Write the Bill or Rights amendment that relates to each scenario along with a brief statement that explains what you learned about that amendment. You may use your textbook and class notes. **//Type your answers using AppleWorks or Microsoft Word and submit through [|nicenet] by clicking "turn in online" from the documents link. Make sure that you select Week 3, Day 1//**. Save a back-up in case it doesn't work (it's my first time trying it too!). Adapted from http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/04-1/lesson012.shtml.//

> Agree/Disagree: > Amendment: > Agree/Disagree: > Amendment: > Agree/Disagree: > Amendment: > Agree/Disagree: > Amendment: > Agree/Disagree: > Amendment: > Agree/Disagree: > Amendment: > Agree/Disagree: > Amendment: > Agree/Disagree: > Amendment: > Agree/Disagree: > Amendment: > Agree/Disagree: > Amendment: > Agree/Disagree: > Amendment: > Agree/Disagree: > Amendment: 
 * 1) A person who enters a room and screams "Bomb!" just to see the reaction of the people in the room is protected under provisions in the Bill of Rights.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Members of Congress can learn many different things -- such as what you like and dislike about the area where you live -- from letters you send to them.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">A police officer comes to your door and asks to search your home without probable cause. You don't want to allow the officer to enter, but he is allowed to search your home.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Violence is getting to the point in our society where they should stop letting civilians own guns.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">The Death Penalty is a good way to punish those who murder another human being.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">A person is convicted of murdering another human being. Later, it is discovered that the victim of that murder had actually faked his or her death. Under those circumstances, it would be legal for the person convicted of the murder to kill the person who faked his/her death.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Your parents own a house. They invest hours of time and many thousands of dollar into it. The government can make your parents sell the house to them so a highway can be built on the land.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">If a power is not expressed in the Constitution, then it is the responsibility of the individual states to protect citizens' rights.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Even after September 11th, people are still free to practice the Islamic religion in the United States.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">A person involved in a dispute over $10 is permitted to take his or her complaint to a civil court.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">President Bush is allowed to call you at home and tell you that you must let soldiers stay in your home.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Everybody in the United States has the right to a free education.


 * Step 3**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Go back to any previous lesson you may have missed and complete them.

Congratualtions, you're done!