1. The 1 st Amendment

2. Brainstorm… Imagine you are in a club or a group and you have a super important message. You need as many people as possible to hear about it. It can be about an upcoming event or about an important issue: anything (school-appropriate) you want. You choose! Don’t worry about money; imagine you have enough to cover printing, mailing and maybe even placing your message on TV or the radio. How would you communicate your message? Try to think of as many different approaches as you can to get your message out to as many people as possible. Be creative!

3. What did you brainstorm? Which freedoms are represented here?

4. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” 1 st Amendment

5. What does it mean? Religion: you can believe what you want, belong to any religion, or no religion Speech: you can voice your opinions using words, symbols or actions Press: the government cannot censor information in newspapers, online news sources, TV news broadcasts, etc. Assembly: you can gather in a group Petition: you can criticize the government, and you can complain about policies that affect you negatively and ask for change

6. What’s what?