TIPS PROGRAM

Webquest By Rosemond Yamoah CIS 229

Protest in the Past and Present

Introduction

Protesting is a way of trying to effect a change by letting the government know how you feel about something or a situation. (Let students look for the definition in the dictionary.)

The Boston Tea Party is an example of Colonial means of protesting. At this event, Americans reacted against British Tax laws, by throwing tea arriving in Boston from Britain in the water of Boston Harbor.

Today, people protest differently through parades, million men march, boycotting, picketing, sit-in, demonstrations, petitioning and non-violent protesting such as Martin Luther King Jr’s.

Task:

Students will be able to compare and contrast protest of the past and present.

Students will be able to understand vocabulary words like boycott, picketing, petition, non violent.

Students will be able to feel the need to change the law.

Students will understand how laws are created.

Process:

Students will use the Internet to search for The Boston Tea Party and how the people protested.

Students will use the TIPS website to review The Tinker v. Des Moines case.

Students will use the Internet to research non- violent protest e.g. Martin Luther King Jr.’s way of protesting.

Students will use classroom textbooks to research methods of protest. Page 42 of America’s History by Vivian Bernstein.

Students will make posters, one side of the poster with pictures of past protests, and the other side representing present protests.

Students will write an essay regarding the similarities and differences between The Boston Tea Party and The Tinker v. Des Moines cases.

Resources:

Students will assess the following websites on the computer:

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/scales/tinker.html

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/scales/tinkervis1.html

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/scales/tinkervis2.html

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/bostonteaparty-edenton.html.

http://www.dell.homestead.com/revwar/files/TEAPARTY.HTM

http://www.designsbydaybreak.com/holidays/martinluther/

Evaluation: Students will be assessed orally to give the meaning of protest. They would be asked to explain in an essay the various forms of protesting. They would be asked to tell the differences between past and present protest. Posters submitted will be graded for clarity, content, and demonstration of understanding of the subject matter.

Conclusion: Upon completion of this assignment, students will understand the roles of the citizen within American constitutional democracy and the scope of a citizen’s rights and responsibilities. Students will also develop a better understanding of accessing information from the Internet.