Read through the vocabulary words below. Discuss with a partner what you have been talking about in Social Studies about the First Amendment.
- Post in a comment about what you and your partner discuss.
http://www.spj.org/pdf/ethicscode.pdf
- Read the preamble and all 37 items.
- Select 5 of the items to work on.
- With a partner, study your 5 items, talk about what you think it means and look up any words you don't know.
- Rewrite the items in your own words. Use Word to type out your ideas.
- Make a podcast of your ideas.
- Take pictures to reflect your ideas. Use iPhoto to edit photos.
- Post your ideas on Castro Copy.
Students will discuss the freedoms protected under the First Amendment.
Students will read and discuss a Code of Ethics. Students will write a Code of Ethics in their own words.
Students will apply ethical guidelines to newsroom situations.
Vocabulary:
ethics -
| 1. | a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture. |
| 2. | the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc. |
| 3. | moral principles, as of an individual |
| 4. | that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions. |
Intrusion - physical or technological invasion of an individual's privacy
Libel - publication of material unjustly injurious to someone's reputation
Slander - spoken communication that damages a person's reputation
US Constitution
Bill of Rights
Amendment I
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.
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