Day One:
• Divide into teams of three students.
• In your team, read the introduction to make sure you understand the setting and guidelines for this project.
• Each person in the group must choose one of the civil disobedience focus areas to research. The focus areas are:
• Use the resources provided to answer the following questions about the focus area you are researching:
In one paragraph, explain the general process of your area of civil disobedience. Does the civil disobedience include large groups of people? Was there a specific leader involved? Was the civil disobedience incorporated into daily life?
In one or two paragraphs, explain the consequences of the civil disobedience you researched. Were people who participated in your civil disobedience focus area arrested? Did society look down on people who participated? Was the civil disobedience successful in enacting change? What barriers did people using civil disobedience face?
Develop a plan based upon your focus area of civil disobedience that applies to the invasion of privacy affecting you and your peers. This should be a detailed plan that reflects thorough understanding of the steps and ideas from your research.
Decide whether or not you think the plan you devised will work. Do you think that the ideas and practices of the civil disobedience you researched are applicable to your situation?
• Type all of your information and research and bring two copies of this to class. One will be given to the teacher for grading and another will be used within your team.
Day Two:
• Your team will meet together and share the information that you have found. Each person will report on their focus area and explain the process and consequences. Then, each person will explain the plan they devised from their research.
• After your group has shared their research, work together and create a definition of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. This is not a dictionary definition. It should be about a paragraph in length and describe all significant aspects of the concept.
• It is now time for your team to create a plan of action against your school’s profiling. This is a very detailed and strategic plan of how you will protest and gain public support against school administration and local police. This plan should reflect the research that you have done. Your teams can choose three ways to plan:
- Your team can vote on and accept one team member's plan and use it as a basis for your own strategy against the policy.
- Your team can decide to combine two, three, or all of the focus areas into one plan.
- Your team can decide that none of the focus areas are appropriate for your situation. This means that your team's plan will be original.
• Each plan should include minimum of two pages of the process for your civil disobedience, including locations, participants, projected cost, and time. You will also have to provide at least one page of justification for your decision. This means that you have to explain why you made the decisions that you did. Finally, your group should write at least one page describing what you hope to achieve from your plan.
• Your plan materialized and your team will imagine yourselves the day after your civil disobedience. Discuss with your group the results of your acts of civil disobedience. What did people think and how did they react? Were you arrested for your actions? Do you feel you accomplished your goal? What were the consequences of your actions?
Presentation:
• You are going to be responsible for a 5-8 minute presentation in front of the class. The purpose of this presentation is to explain the plan your group chose. This presentation is your opportunity to be creative! For example, you could do a TV news show, covering the events of the acts of civil disobedience at a local high school. You could do a radio show, a skit, an interview, a speech or anything that you choose. All members of the team have to be included in this presentation and your teacher must approve your ideas.
• On the day of your presentation, all of your research and essays should be turned into the teacher with all of your team member names on them.