Goal for the day: For students to decide when they would limit free speech
We're continuing with our discussion of limits on free speech. We'll start with a video of a speech given before the United Nations by U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson on gender equality. We're taking time to watch the video for several reasons: women's speech and freedoms around the world are curtailed to a much greater degree than speech for men, there has been a subsequent backlash against Watson in the last few days since she made the speech, and because it showcases her effort to address a big, complex, global issue, the same thing you are trying to do with your global issue work.
From here, we'll move to complete the When Does Free Speech Go Too Far? handout. We'll end the first half of class, watching the next segment of the Shouting Fire video on free speech. This segment focuses on the controversy over the opening of an Arabic-English dual immersion public school in New York City. This video will deepen our discussion about defamation and how this relates to freedom of the press.
After break we'll take a Free Speech Gallery Walk, discussing the case law around defamation, obscenity, offensive and hateful speech, symbolic speech, and true threats. Students will then make their next First Amendment journal post about when they feel it is all right to limit free speech.
Assignment for Friday, September 26th
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We're continuing with our discussion of limits on free speech. We'll start with a video of a speech given before the United Nations by U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson on gender equality. We're taking time to watch the video for several reasons: women's speech and freedoms around the world are curtailed to a much greater degree than speech for men, there has been a subsequent backlash against Watson in the last few days since she made the speech, and because it showcases her effort to address a big, complex, global issue, the same thing you are trying to do with your global issue work.
From here, we'll move to complete the When Does Free Speech Go Too Far? handout. We'll end the first half of class, watching the next segment of the Shouting Fire video on free speech. This segment focuses on the controversy over the opening of an Arabic-English dual immersion public school in New York City. This video will deepen our discussion about defamation and how this relates to freedom of the press.
After break we'll take a Free Speech Gallery Walk, discussing the case law around defamation, obscenity, offensive and hateful speech, symbolic speech, and true threats. Students will then make their next First Amendment journal post about when they feel it is all right to limit free speech.
Assignment for Friday, September 26th
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