Adapting
Project HISTORY Workshop Agenda
Media Center, Westmoreland H.S.
Monday,
February 14, 2011
AN
OVERVIEW OF LANDMARK U.S. SUPREME COURT CASES INVOLVING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS
--Jim
Carroll, Ph.D., Project HISTORY
9:00 a.m. Teacher Knowledge Pre-Tests
9:10 a.m. Freedom of Speech and Press: What’s your opinion? *
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)
10:15 a.m. BREAK
10:25 a.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.
New York (1925) summary
CompuLEGAL: New York Times v. U.S. (1971)
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
12:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:00 p.m. Requirements
Reviewing Our Progress with the WebQuests
1:05 p.m. Introduction to Philosophy of
the PowerPoint
PPA
PowerPoint Requirements
40-minute
minimum time sequence
A PowerPoint
Example
Teachers look
at previously created, Big List
1:25 p.m. Guided Practice on How to Create PowerPoint
.
Slides Incorporating the Public Policy Analyst: ex
A
hands-on participatory activity in which teachers use their own curriculum to
begin to create their own lessons
1:45 p.m. Teachers Continue to Develop their PowerPoint
Lessons (PowerPoint in the Classroom, Checklist)
2:55 p.m. Evaluation
3:00 p.m. Adjourn
