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Libertas Civics Camp 2.0: Final Product

This guide provides resources, links, assignments and rubrics for the 2018 Libertas Civics Camp.

Instructions

Instructions: Please form a team of 3-4. Next, reference your topic below for cases to access. There is a wealth of information here. Please pick three cases you want to case brief. These case briefs will be very important as you think about your exception to a warrant and whether it goes far enough in protecting individual rights or not. Do these exceptions to a warrant go far enough to protecting your life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness? Why or why not? Do they address criminality, or do you think it helps it? These are some questions for you to think about. Use the “WRITING A CASE BRIEF” handout. Your team will need three.

Your end product (to be worked on Thursday): 1) Webpage created on Weebly (must include links to cases, pictures, clearly indicate to the viewer your thoughts on exceptions in relation to individual rights, why 4th Amendment is important for people to know, and how you would improve, change or take away from the exception to a warrant you studied); 2) Poster; 3) Oral argument that addresses your exception to a warrant and whether it goes far enough in protecting individual rights or not. Do these exceptions to a warrant go far enough to protecting your life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness? Why or why not? Do they address criminality, or do you think it helps it? And how you would improve, change or take away from the exception to a warrant you studied.

Oral Argument

Webpage

Webpage set up:

https://www.weebly.com/

Webpage  set up:

Access SWAY through your CLEVER account

Project Guidelines:

  1. Content and Background:
    1. Provide a description of your topic
    2. Explain why the topic is significant
    3. What do you think the community should know about their topic
  2. Reflection:
    1. What did you learn?
    2. Opinion on the rule (does it go far enough or is limited in protecting individual rights while addressing criminality?
  3. Visual
    1. Includes images, links to cases, video links
    2. Includes helpful links: "Know your rights," "Important information to know," "A teen's guide to the 4th amendment"

Optional: Dramatization  of scenario, testimony, personal experience, anecdote

 

 

Student Surveys

Case Briefing