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Mrs. Pringle’s Social Studies Wiki 3rd Trimester Civil Liberties/Civil Rights


 * //__April 11, 2011__//**

==The following wiki will help achieve a series of assignments for Mrs. Pringle’s government B class. The first four weeks we will be discussing the following issues; civil liberties, civil rights, citizenship and citizen responsibilities == Week 1: Civil Liberties

· Please pick one of the Bills Of Rights in the United States Constitution and evaluate its importance to the democracy of America. You can click on the title to find additional information for this assignment.

· Please pick two personal accounts of an individual’s civil liberties being violated. You may choose a particular ethnic group or an individual, i.e. Gideon v. Wainwright. Once you have found your two pieces of research summarize the information by using who, what, when, where, why, and how method discussed in class.

· Please create a concept map illustrating civil liberties and the American citizen. You are required to have 10-12 images and/or bubbles on your map. Please include a title and make sure that your images include a caption. There is an example and a link to help you create the concept map.

//__**April 13, 2011-The Responsibility of a citizen**__// Please pick one of the topics and write a paragraph on what you feel the responsiblity of a citizen is to that topic. In addition, please find information on your topic link it to your information.
 * 1) [|The Environment]
 * 2) [|Politics/Law]
 * 3) [|The People]

__//**April 18, 2011-The Resposibility of a citizen-[|Newborn]**//__ //__**April 18, 2011-Create a wiki**__//
 * Thursday in Kalamazoo a newborn baby was found in a DVD box in a dumpster. Which Core Democratic Value is at play here. In addition, what is the responsibility of the citizen that left that baby and what is the responsibility of the citizen(s) who now have the newborn?**

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK You will be uploading your assignments on the class wiki. We will go over that process as a class on April, 18 2011.

Work Cited Please include a work cited page

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