(Note to teachers: The last activity for this case deals with speech on Internet sites. You may wish to segue into the Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier case with this activity.)

• Complete the activity titled "What Is Symbolic Speech? When Is It Protected"?
  
  
• Read the "Background" as a class. Have students complete the activity titled "Classifying Arguments in the Case" and predict the outcome.
  
  
• For homework, have students read the excerpt of the opinion and answer the accompanying questions.

• Complete the activities for the first day.
  
  
• On the second day, discuss the opinion in the case and have students complete the activity titled "How Disruptive is Disruptive?" For homework, have them access the "American Bar Association's Online Conversation with the Plaintiffs."
  
  

• Complete the activities assigned for the first and second days.
  
  
• On the third day, have students complete the "Gangs, Tattoos, and Symbolic Speech" activity as a class.
  
  

• On the first day, complete the activity titled "What is Symbolic Speech" and read the "Background".
  
  
• Complete the activity titled "Classifying Arguments in the Case." Assign half of the class the majority opinion and the other half the dissenting opinion for homework.
  
  
• On the second day, discuss the decisions and complete the "Editorial Staff Reacts" activity. For homework, have students access the "American Bar Association's Online Conversation with the Plaintiffs".
  
  
• On the third day, have students complete the activity titled "How Disruptive is Disruptive?" For homework, complete the "Gangs, Tattoos, and Symbolic Speech" activity.
  
  
• On the fourth day, discuss the homework. Have students complete the jigsaw activity titled "The Internet, Schools and Symbolic Speech."
  
  

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Activities
    The Case

•	What Is Symbolic Speech? When Is It Protected?
•	Classifying Arguments in the Case
•	How Does a School Identify "Disruptive Speech?"
•	The Editorial Staff of the Valley High School Voice Reacts
•	How Disruptive Is "Disruptive"?
•	Access the American Bar Association's Online Conversation with the Plaintiffs

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    After the Case

•	Gangs, Tattoos, and Symbolic Speech
•	The Internet, Schools, and Symbolic Speech: A Jigsaw Activity

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