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Censorship and First Amendment

Complete all items on the list. Name: __________________________

1. Write the first amendment here: ______________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Ask any person over the age of 50 if they know where the term Loose Lips Sink Ships came from? Write their answer and name here: ____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. One of the earliest recorded cases of censorship was that of Socrates. How was he censored and what was his punishment? _______________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Ask your media specialist when Banned Book Week is this year and how will it be recognized in the school? ______________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Visit the school media center for this clue. Ask for the CLUE. Attach the item you find. 6. Summarize the Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District ruling. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What act does Congress pass in 1918 which forbids spoken or printed criticism of the U.S. government, the Constitution or the flag? _________________________________________________ 8. In 1925 what trial occurred in Dayton, Tennessee? And what was it about? _____________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Where was the 12th annual National Freedom of Information Day Conference held? ______________ 10. What are the five freedoms explicitly protected by the First Amendment? _____________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
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FOR CLUE #5 media specialists provide students the following clue. This clue should lead them to the book To Kill a Mockingbird. Media specialist should prearrange to have bookmarks inside that book for students to take. Cut and make copies of this page for media specialists.

CLUE #5 Below is a list of frequently challenged or banned books. The one you are looking for has a character named Scout. Find that book and your prize is inside. Take the prize and attach it to your answer sheet.
ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series) by Lauren Myracle The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger My Sisters Keeper, by Jodi Picoult The Color Purple, by Alice Walker His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck Beloved, by Toni Morrison The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding 1984, by George Orwell The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier

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Censorship and First Amendment Answers
1. "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." 2. During WW2 the term dealt with censoring talk about military movementenemies could hear and act on it. 3. He was sentenced to drink poison in 399 BC for his corruption of youth and his acknowledgement of unorthodox divinities 4. answers vary 5. Should attach a bookmark (see instructions for media specialist) 6. Summary: Students were suspended by school officials for wearing a simple black armband to school to protest Vietnam War. The U.S. Supreme Court held the students' speech was protected. Students, the Court held, do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate," and school officials may not punish or prohibit student speech unless they can clearly demonstrate that it will result in a material and substantial disruption of normal school activities or invades the rights of others. 7. the Sedition Act 8. The "Scopes Monkey Trial". School-teacher John Thomas Scopes was found guilty of violating a Tennessee law which prohibits teaching the theory of evolution in public schools. 9. Held Monday, March 15, in the Freedom Forums Newseum, Washington, DC. 10. (1) Freedom of Religion (2) Freedom of Speech (3) Freedom of the Press (4) Freedom of Assembly (5) Freedom to Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances

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