Introduction
Adama Soumahoro
01/24/14
801
Tech/Design
Performance Task #1
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Summary: The government cannot make any laws that stop people from practicing their own religion, stopping them from saying what they want, or to print anything they want in the press, people have the right to assemble and protest.
Example: People assemble in front of the governors to protest against work hours and low paying jobs for long hours. They walk around the block continuously chanting a anthem.
Task
2/7/13
801
Tech/Design
Performance Task #2
1st Amendment
Big Ideas:
· Speak your Mind:
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=3924
The First Amendment says that people have the right to speak freely without government interference.
· Freedom of Press
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=3924
The First Amendment gives the press the right to publish news, information and opinions without government interference.
· Freedom of Assembly
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=3924
People have the right to gather in public to march, protest, demonstrate, carry signs and express their views in a nonviolent way.
· Freedom of Religion
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=3924
The First Amendment allows people to believe in a religion and protects each person's right to practice (or not practice) any faith without government interference.
Process
2/14/13
801
Tech/Design
Performance Task #3
1st Amendment InquiryQuestion
Speak Your Mind:
Is there any words you can absolutely not say?
Freedom of Press:
Can the press exaggerate the truth?
Freedom of Assembly:
Can people protest in violent?
Evaluation
3/12/14
801
Tech/Design
Performance Task 4
Video: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/19/losing-your-tv-job-is-not-a-first-amendment-issue/
Question: How do you think his rights were violated?
Answer: He lost his job for giving his own opinion about his perspective of gay people he doesn't deserve to lose his job for speaking his mind .
Question: Do you think he should have been banned from the TV Show?
Answer: No he shouldn't have been banned because it is his voice and he deserves to speak his mind
Question: Do you think he should have been ridiculed for his opinion?
Answer: No because it was his own opinion and should of had every rights to speak his mind out it is his mouth and he deserves freedom of speech.
Conclusion
1) He lost his job for giving his own opinion about his perspective of gay people he doesn't deserve to lose his job for speaking his mind .
2)No he shouldn't have been banned because it is his voice and he deserves to speak his mind
3)No because it was his own opinion and should of had every rights to speak his mind out it is his mouth and he deserves freedom of speech.