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This document contains a series of questions about a Supreme Court case regarding student speech rights. The questions probe how the lower court viewed wearing armbands of protest, precedents cited, the relationship between government authority and student expression, and how students should be seen as more than passive receivers of only state-sanctioned ideas once inside school.

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Please Answer These Questions and Annotate The Text With Your Responses

This document contains a series of questions about a Supreme Court case regarding student speech rights. The questions probe how the lower court viewed wearing armbands of protest, precedents cited, the relationship between government authority and student expression, and how students should be seen as more than passive receivers of only state-sanctioned ideas once inside school.

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Module 3 L1 Tinker Case Questions Name_______________________________________ Hr _____

Please answer these questions and annotate the text with your responses.
1. Justice Fortas refers to how the District Court viewed the act of wearing the armbands. How did the District
Court interpret that act?
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2. What does Fortas list in the second sentence?
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3. How do you think those listed cases are related?
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4. What pronoun does Fortas use in the third sentence, and what does it represent?
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5. Fortas uses the word divorced in the third sentence. What two things does he see as divorced from one
another?
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6. The last sentence of the second paragraph begins with “it can hardly be argued…” Rewrite that phrase in your
own words.
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7. Fortas uses the word shed in the last sentence to mean what?
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8. Fortas presents an image in the last sentence of students and teachers entering the schoolhouse gate. What
point is he making about students and teachers inside and outside school?
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9. A closed circuit is a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates, as in a loop.
What does Fortas mean by saying that students are “not closed- circuit recipients of only that which the state
chooses to communicate?
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10. Where in that same paragraph does Fortas assert how he believes students should be perceived differently?
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