Thursday, February 17, 2011, 4:00 pm
to 7:00 pm
North Syracuse Junior High School
5353 West Taft Road, North Syracuse,
NY 13212
AN
OVERVIEW OF LANDMARK U.S. SUPREME COURT CASES INVOLVING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND
PRESS
--Jim
Carroll, Ph.D., Project HISTORY
4:00 p.m. Teacher Knowledge Pre-Tests
4:05 p.m. Freedom of Speech and Press: What’s your opinion? (Handout)
Introduction to Freedom of Speech:
CRITICAL Lesson 1
What Is Libel? CRITICAL
LESSON 2
Do Students Have Freedom of
Speech and Press in Public Schools? CRITICAL Lesson 5 (pp. 65-73)
Bethel
v. Fraser Summary speech
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier Summary
5:15 p.m. BREAK
5:45 p.m. Balancing Free Speech/Press
with National Security:
The U.S. Enters World War I:
April 6, 1917
George Creel and the Committee on Public Information: April
13, 1917
The Espionage Act, June 15,
1917
CompuLEGAL: Schenck v. U.S. (1919) Summary
Gitlow
v. N.Y. (1925) GitlowMajority GitlowMinority
CompuLEGAL: New York Times v. U.S. (1971) Summary
Free Speech
Quotations’ Handout
Applying Lawrence Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Reasoning to Daniel Ellsberg’s Dilemma
How Has the Court Balanced
Free Speech/Press with National Security?
CRITICAL Lesson 3
6:55 p.m. Post-test
7:00 p.m. Adjourn
