Plans for 5/19-- Censorship and being famous

1. Obviously, complete a newsreel, which is embedded below:


2.Investigate the lives of Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, and Howard Stern. Find out how their activities influenced the degree of censorship in the media and with being a celebrity. Put your findings into a powerpoint with the following sections:
1. Background
2. Activities
3. How they were censored
4. What was done to fight the censorship or how they worked around it

Make sure you include pictures, quotes (if there are any school appropriate ones!!!), and anything necessary to prove your point.(school appropriate of course!)

Plans for 5/18/2011

Censorship and the Internet

1. Complete you Newsreel, which is embedded below


2. Censorship on the net is a big thing in todays world. You have two scenarios to create posters for. Scenario #1: The Feds want to create a law that that would enable federal agents to break into private businesses and homes in order to get passwords and other information regarding subversive behavior towards the government.
Scenario #2: A proposed law would put even stricter filters in Public Schools that would block everything but "school concerning" sites.

You and your partner should create a poster and a letter to the editor for each either supporting or opposing these "proposed" laws. You may use white copy paper, or notebook paper for the poster, your choice.

Plans for 5/17

1. Do your newsreel, which is embedded down below:




2. Then, please write a one-two paragraph statement agreeing with and dissenting opinion written about each case from yesterday.(See yesterdays plans down below for help on what you did since I know some will ask) Remember, you are both agreeing with and bashing the decision in each of your paragraphs! Don't forget these are from the cases from yesterday, the Tinker case and the Hazelwood case. Remember to back your opinions with facts from the case, as well as facts from any law you can find on the internet. Paragraphs are 4-6 sentences, should be two for each case, either handwritten and handed in to the sub, or e-mailed to me. Good luck!

Plans for Monday, 5/16

Here is what I expect for you to have completed after your newsreels, which is embedded in the website below your directions:

You do not have the same rights in school as in out. Many of these rights we have discussed as a class and have debated them at length. We will be preparing to offer arguments both for and against two important court cases involving school censorship.
1. Summarize the following cases: Tinker vs DeMoines, and Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeier. Include a brief background summary(what happened to bring the case), the Supreme Courts Decision, and the after affects fro the decision.
2. Either write these out and hand in to the sub who will leave it for me when I get into school later today, or e-mail it to me at jflickinger@nwlsd.org

If you need help finding the video for the newsreel, here it is down below this writing...

Banning Books

You and your partner are charged with deciding which books you will ban, and which books you will not, based on the list of the 50 most frequently banned books list. Please tell: 1. Why it should be banned from your library 2. Why you think it was banned elsewhere 3. If you are keeping it, tell why it is being kept. 4. Use your netbooks to research these books to give details in your report about why these should be banned or not.

Censorship around the world...

1. Read over article 19 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the United Nations Website. Then you and your partner should rewrite this article to reflect more of a modern idea of freedom of expression.
2. Access the State Departments website. Click on the policy tab, and from the dropdown menu click on the Democracy and Human Rights tab. Create a report listing the degree of censorship in other countries around the world. Research 10 countries from this report.

Censorship in the Courts

You and your partner will investigate the legality of Censorship and how it is handled in the courts. You will:
1. Summarize the main legal issue or precedent set in the cases. Should be a paragraph for each.

The cases are:
1. Schenk vs US (1919)
2. Chaplinsky vs New Hampshire (1942)
3. Brandenberg vs Ohio (1969)
4. New York Times vs US (1971)
5. Reno vs American Civil Liberties Union (1997)

Due at end of bell... and no basektball on the computers either!!! I am watching.........