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After completing The First Amendment: Five Rights in One program with the National Archives, students will be better able to: • Explain what rights are and why they are important • Understand how one can exercise their rights • Identify the rights protected in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights
Grade Span: High School. Link to download PDF. Our library of lesson plans with themes surrounding the First Amendment, ranging from elementary school to high school level plans.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “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.”
Objectives: • Students will be able to identify the five freedoms protected under the First Amendment. • Students will be able to create visual representations of the meaning of each clause of the First Amendment. Materials: • First Amendment Freedoms Worksheets. • Poster Assignment.
Here are the exact words of the First Amendment: “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 griev-ances.”
5 lut 2021 · Objective: Review the five freedoms with the whole group, talk about the ways the students came up with to live their freedoms, use that as a segue to explain historical background, legal and social limitations, and the democratic function of the five freedoms.
The First Amendment protects some of our most cherished rights, including religious liberty, free speech, a free press, the right to assemble, and the right to petition our government for a redress of grievances.
