Task: Bill of Rights posters
Standards addressed:
 Identify our rights protected in the Bill of Rights and the limits to those rights
Task:
Yesterday, a student in the 3th grader shouted, “Everyone leave, there is a fire in the Science Lab!”
However, the student was lying because she didn’t want to take her Math test. When she went to see
the principal, she claimed she couldn’t be punished because she has the freedom of speech under the 1st
amendment. You, as knowledgeable 7th graders, know that she is cray and the 1st amendment does not
protect that kind of speech. Mr. Nicholson would like you to create small informational posters to hang
around school that explain our rights in the Bill of Rights, but also the limits to those rights.
For Amendments 1 (freedom of speech, press, and assembly), 2, and 4, create 5 small information
posters detailing our rights and the limits to those rights. Draw a line down the middle of your poster,
with one of the following titles in one of the two sections: Our Right/Not Our Right. Under the titles,
draw one cartoon of someone exercising their protected right and one cartoon of someone exceeding
the limits of their rights. Finally, write one sentence under each cartoon that explains what is happening
in the picture. Repeat this process for each of the freedoms/amendments listed above.
Rubric:
Criteria
0/1
2
# of Posters
Created less than 5
posters or one or
more
Amendments/rights
are missing
Created 5 posters,
one for each
Amendment/right
Setup
Examples and nonexamples are clearly
separated
Examples and nonexamples are not
clearly separated
Cartoons
Cartoons somewhat
accurately show
citizens exercising or
abusing their rights
Cartoons mostly
accurately show
citizens exercising or
abusing their rights
Cartoons accurately
show citizens
exercising or abusing
their rights
Captions do not
explain what is
happening in picture
or do not explain if
that is an example or
a non-example of the
Amendment/right
Captions do not
explain what is
happening in picture
and do not explain if
that is an example or
a non-example of the
Amendment/right
Captions explain
what is happening in
picture and if that is
an example or a nonexample of the
Amendment/right
Captions
Multiplier
x3
3