Objectives/Strategies
The students will be able to:
- understand how the Supreme Court influences their lives through examining cases involving education issues.
- make judgments about the action of the litigants involved in these cases and the rulings.
- improve in their ability to evaluate information to make judgments and to transfer what they have learned to other experiences.
- explore how they can make a difference as productive members of society through becoming informed voters and advocates for worthy causes.
- view literature and art as a means of conveying advocacy of important social themes through the study of Fahrenheit 451.
- gain experience in group discussion and informal debating on topics of mutual interest with their cohort group.
- learn to compare a book and film and to evaluate the differences between the two.
The curriculum provides ample opportunity to explore the effect of laws on citizens. Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 will feature most prominently in the study in the ninth grade scholars' classroom. After studying specific court cases that pertain to schools, students will read a fictional account of a government's intervention into the lives of its citizens and the effects this has on the society depicted. The point of this is in the value of education, reading, and thinking for each and every person. For each step in the study worksheets will be utilized (see Appendices) to guide the students and give them a "roadmap" to their study that they can use to link the different readings. Ultimately, students should realize the value of education and the importance of thinking for themselves and not allowing anyone or any group to deprive them of these things.
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