Mr. Mr. Saindon's
United States History Class
Happy New Year! 2026
United States History / Mr. Saindon & Mr. Connor Hurst
Monday, January 26 to Friday, January 31
Do the Following:
Prepare and do research for This week's Supreme Court Cases: "Tinker v. Des Moines" and "Brown v. The Board of Education"
FRIDAY WE WILL HOLD COURT IN MR. SAINDON"S ROOM
EXTRA CREDIT IF YOU COME DRESSED AS A "HIGH POWERED" LAWYER
Tinker v. Des Moines and the First Amendment
Individual Rights and Freedoms
Summary
In this lesson, students will explore the protected rights all students have on school grounds based on the precedent set by 1969 Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines. Students will analyze how this court case helped to clarify and extend students' First Amendment freedoms. They will then reflect on how those freedoms come with limitations.
Essential Question(s)
To what extent are students' First Amendment rights protected in school, and are those freedoms ever limited?
Mr. Saindon’s class will be able to apply the Supreme Court precedent set in Tinker v. Des Moines to issues facing society today.
We will practice civil discourse skills to explore the tensions between students’ interests in free speech
and
expression on campus and their school’s interests in maintaining an orderly learning environment.
We will have the opportunity to find common ground and come up with compromises.
The Bill of Rights
(The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution)
Lesson Objectives: The student will...
• Identify arguments for and against the need for a bill of rights in the U.S. Constitution
• Explain why the Bill of Rights was added to the U.S. Constitution
• Describe how the Bill of Rights addresses limited government
• Relate the arguments over the need for a bill of rights to the wording of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
• Compare and contrast the fears on both sides of the argument over the need for a bill of rights
Click on the Picture to go to the Bill of Rights Institute
The making of the Bill of Rights
Americans enjoy a wide range of rights, from the freedom to
practice religions of their choosing to the right to a trial by
jury.
Many of the rights and freedoms that we associate with
being American are protected by the Bill of Rights, or the first
ten amendments of the United States Constitution.
When the Constitution was signed in 1787, it was missing a Bill
of Rights.
But many people in the ratifying conventions that
followed, believed that the Constitution needed a section that
preserved fundamental human rights.
James Madison set out
to write this section.
Madison introduced his ideas at the First
United States Congress in 1789, and, on December 15, 1791,
the Bill of Rights was ratified by three-fourths of the states.
More than 300 years later, the Bill of Rights still protects
many of the rights that Americans hold most dear, including
freedom of speech and of the press, the right to bear arms,
and protection from unreasonable search and seizure.