Teaching Recommendations Based on Your Time
If you have one day . . .
- Begin class with a continuum activity regarding students'
opinions about the constitutional amendment to prohibit flag
burning.
Need Instructions for the Continuum
Activity?
- Have students read the appropriate "Background Summary"
and answer the questions. Discuss.
- Complete the activity titled "What is Symbolic Speech?
When is it Protected?" Be sure to go over the last question,
which asks students to predict the outcome of the case.
- For homework, have students complete the activity titled
"Data Analysis: How do Americans feel about a Constitutional
Amendment to Protect the Flag."
If you have two days . . .
- Complete all activities for the first day.
- On the second day, discuss the activity that students
completed for homework. Compare the opinions of students in
the class (as noted in the continuum activity on day one) with
the opinions of the American public as a whole.
- Next, complete the activity titled "The Amendment
Process." This lesson provides a nice segue into the
WebQuest.
If you have three days . . .
- Complete all activities for the first and second
days.
- On the third day, begin the WebQuest activity titled
"Should the United States Enact a Constitutional Amendment to
Prohibit Flag Burning?"
- Have students work on the WebQuest for homework.
If you have four days . . .
- Complete all activities for the first, second, and third
days.
- On the fourth day, complete the WebQuest activity.
Students can begin writing the letter in class and finish it
for homework.
- Consider wrapping up the case by using the same continuum
activity regarding students' opinions about the constitutional
amendment to prohibit flag burning that you did on the first
day. This would allow you to determine whether students'
opinions had changed.
Need Instructions for the
Continuum Activity?
- The activity titled "Political Cartoon Analysis" can also
be used as a
wrap-up feature.
(Note to teachers: The
Data Analysis and Political Cartoon Analysis activities could
easily be incorporated into a test or quiz. Honors level
students could probably do the WebQuest as a two-day activity,
without any of the preceding
activities.)
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