Lesson 12: When can a school limit what students say? Printable pages
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Grades 6–8
Task: Make a two-column chart comparing the Tinker armbands with Anika’s wear-blue plan, then explain one way they’re alike and one way they’re different.
Students make: Chart plus 3–5 sentences.
One class period: 45 minutes. Full chapter: 76 minutes.
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Task: Write a fact-pattern brief comparing Tinker with the wear-blue plan and the walkout.
Students make: Brief, 300–400 words.
One class period: 50 minutes. Full chapter: 83 minutes.
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Task: Write a legal-reasoning essay: how would Tinker, Hazelwood and Mahanoy each bear on a version of Anika’s poster?
Students make: Essay, 600–750 words.
One class period: 60 minutes. Full chapter: 89 minutes.
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Task: Write a plain-language explainer on posters and walkouts at public schools for a library teen night or a youth program. Separate the speech question, the attendance rule and possible discipline, and use Anika’s case as the example.
Students make: Explainer, 400–500 words, with a labeled source list.
One class period: 90 minutes. Full chapter: 113 minutes.
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Family page Lesson 12: When can a school limit what students say?
In this case, a student’s poster asks her school to keep the library open at lunch, and someone in a group chat suggests a walkout. Your student compared a 1969 Supreme Court case with each plan and wrote a short analysis.
Questions to talk about
- What rules do schools often have about posters or flyers?
- Why might a school treat wearing a color differently from leaving class?
- How can a reader tell who made a poster?
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