Civil+Liberties+Spring+Assignments+&+Handouts


 * **__March 8th - Japanese Internment Reading Assigment__** For the Japanese Internment session please read excerpts from //Only What We Could Carry// as listed below and also read __either__ the Rehnquist Chapter or the Breyer Chapter __as assigned below__ based on your last name.
 * Preface, A Note to the Reader
 * Photo Essay: An Uncertain Future (p57)
 * Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (p104)
 * Photo Essay: How I spent the war (p108)
 * Ezio Pinza (p191)
 * Frank Seishi Emi (p313)
 * George Saito (p374)
 * Solly Ganor (p377)
 * Appendix A, B, C, Glossary (p400-424) - review documents as needed

**Guiding question for the above readings:**
 * What can we learn about the Japanese-American experience during WWII from these documents?

**//2. Read ONE of the following two for a jigsaw (sent and on wiki as a PDF)://** //IF YOUR LAST NAME BEGINS WITH THE LETTER A-L:// **//All the Laws but One//** **by William Rehnquist, (Chapter 15 only) - **

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">What is Rehnquist’s perspective on Japanese internment, the role of the president in a time of war, and the Supreme Court’s decisions?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">//IF YOUR LAST NAME BEGINS WITH THE LETTER M-Z:// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**//Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View//** **by Stephen Breyer (Chapter 14 only) - **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Guiding question:** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">What is Breyer’s perspective on Japanese internment, the role of the president in a time of war, and the Supreme Court’s decisions? ||

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**__March 22nd__**Please read:
 * **//McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare - A Documentary History// by Albert Fried** - **[[file:crec-tah/McCarthyism Legitimate.pdf|McCarthyism Legitimate.pdf]]**
 * //**Homeland Insecurities -**// **[[file:crec-tah/Homeland Insecurities.pdf|Homeland Insecurities.pdf]]** ||


 * [[file:Blacklisters at Work.pdf]]
 * [[file:MCCarthyism.pptx]] ||

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**__March 29th – 9/11__**Please read:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**//Securing Liberty: Debating issues of terrorism & democratic values in the post 9/11 United States//** **Edited by David Cole** (read select sections only)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Please read all of sections 4 and 5 (p.169-284) - **[[file:crec-tah/Preventive Detention.pdf|Preventive Detention.pdf]]**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Guiding activity: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Each section presents a modern civil liberties issue. For both of the issues, please be prepared to discuss the various perspectives (pro/con arguments) presented for each issue. In other words if you had to choose a side and debate, what are the important and relevant ideas that you need to know?

**Teaching about 9/11 Links:**
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**Surveillance links:**
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 * [|http://www.cfr.org/intelligence/nsa-eavesdropping/p9763]
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 * [[file:Surveillance CRF.docx]]
 * [[file:The Response Viewing Guide.doc]]
 * [[file:The Response Links.pdf]]
 * [[file:Hamdan.pdf]]
 * [[file:Hamdi.pdf]]
 * [[file:Social Studies Special Issue.pdf]]
 * [[file:9_11_TAH Session - Stoddard.pdf]] ||

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**__May 10th – Vietnam__** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Please read:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**//The Vietnam War and Genocide//** **by Mark Lawrence**


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Guiding questions: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Why did U.S. leaders believe that the stability of South Vietnam was so important to the United States in the 1950s and 1960s?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Why did the United States generally fail to achieve its major objectives in Vietnam?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">What were the legacies of the Vietnam War in the United States?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">What impact did the Vietnam War have on the protection of civil liberties among Americans? In what ways did the war lead policymakers to constrain civil liberties, and in what ways did the war arguably lead to expanded protections?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Why were U.S. officials so anxious about antiwar opinion? How did they attempt to monitor and suppress dissent against the war? Did, on balance, shorten or prolong the war?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">What effect did the Pentagon Papers case have on the Nixon administration's decision-making? How did the Pentagon Papers case constrain executive power? ||


 * [[file:Vietnam War.pdf]]
 * [[file:Powerpoint 1 copy 2.ppt]] ||

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**__May 22nd – Civil Rights__** ||

|| <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Please read:
 * [[file:Montgomery Bus Boycott.pdf]]
 * [[file:CRM - New Perspectives.ppt]]
 * [[file:CRM 10 myths.ppt]] ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**__May 31st – Teaching History with Museums__** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**(Review and Prep for Summer Trip)**
 * //**The Critical Museum Visitor**// **by Margaret Lindauer - [[file:crec-tah/Critical Museum Visitor.pdf|Critical Museum Visitor.pdf]]**
 * //**Teaching History with Museums**// **by Alan Marcus, Jeremy Stoddard, Walter Woodward** **(Chapter 3)**


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Guiding questions: **
 * How important were Civil Liberties to the Constitution’s framers?
 * Whose rights are more important: The rights of the majority, or the rights of the individual?
 * How has our understanding of Civil Liberties changed over time?
 * Whose Civil Liberties are protected by the Constitution? Whose are not? ||


 * [[file:2011-2012 Schedule.docx]] ||

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