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.