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Teaching Recommendations
Based on Your Time
If you
have one day . . .
- Begin with the activity titled "Does Treating
People Equally Mean Treating Them the Same?" Discuss
situations where equal treatment requires the same treatment
and where equal treatment requires different treatment.
- Read the background summary as a class. Have students identify
the relevant facts in the case, using the questions as
a guide.
- For homework, have students read the excerpt from the
majority opinion and answer the accompanying
questions.
If you
have two days . . .
- Complete all activities for the first day.
- On the second day, complete the activity titled "Fourteenth
Amendment v. Tenth Amendment: Federalism."
- In class or for homework, have students read the excerpt
from the majority opinion and answer the
accompanying questions.
If you
have three days . . .
- Complete all activities for the first and second days.
- On the third day, clarify students' understanding of
the majority opinion. Read the dissenting opinion as a
class and identify differences in reasoning between them.
- Complete the activity titled "How a
Dissent Can Presage a Ruling."
- For homework, if students have access to computers and
the Internet, have them investigate the "Case
Study on Integration - Little Rock."
If you
have four days . . .
- Complete all the activities for the first, second, and
third days.
- On the fourth day, depending on your students' level,
complete the activity "Interpreting
the Constitution."
- If the activity "Interpreting the Constitution" is not
grade-level appropriate, have students complete the online
activity "Case Study on Integration - Little Rock."
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