Call to Order Using your visual anticipation guide and the pictures around the room, answer the question in the second column for each picture: What are citizens doing in the picture, and why do you think they are doing it?

Objective PSWBAT identify the rights embedded in the first amendment of the Constitution of the United States and analyze which of these were used in the Occupy Wall Street movement by annotating an informational text.

I. First Amendment Rights A. Freedom of Speech 1. Citizens can say what they want 2. Citizens can express their thoughts and beliefs symbolically (through what you wear, signs you hold, or things you do)

I. First Amendment Rights B. Freedom of Press 1. You can publish what you want in newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and signs

I. First Amendment Rights C. Freedom of Assembly 1. Citizens can gather as a group for whatever purpose, as long as it is not hurting anyone

I. First Amendment Rights D. Freedom of Petition 1. Citizens can ask for changes to be made to their government 2. Citizens usually do this by compiling signatures

I. First Amendment Rights E. Freedom of Religion 1. Citizens can worship whomever and whenever they want 2. Separation of Church and State -- No government agency can persuade you to join a certain religion

Remember the opening activity? Now, go back and fill in the second column, listing the first amendment freedom present in each picture. Also, write HOW YOU KNOW each picture is the freedom you listed.

Focus Question: Do the first amendment freedoms listed in our Constitution allow citizens a chance to make a change in their communities? If so, how? If not, why not? We’re going to focus a bit today on the Occupy Wall Street Movement.

You may have heard about these protests going on in New York City You may have heard about these protests going on in New York City. It’s called OCCUPY WALL STREET

Started in New York City’s with a few hundred protesters on September 17, 2011, the protests have grown in size over the last month, with more than 15,000 people camped out in NYC’s Liberty Plaza Park

It has grown over time and has even spread to the Inner Harbor in Baltimore.

And these protests are spreading all across the nation… They’re now in more than 60 major U.S. cities and even in foreign nations!

Well, if we want to better understand what they stand for, let’s see what they have to say…

Maybe this will clear it up a bit more… Every year, Forbes magazine publishes a list of the 400 wealthiest people in the United States. Warren Buffett $39B #3 #2 #1 Bill Gates $59B Larry Ellison $33B 50 of the 400 wealthiest people in America live in New York City. Their combined net worth totaled $211 billion. 20 % of New Yorkers live in poverty.

Annotating an Article We are going to highlight and annotate an article about Occupy Wall Street I want you to pull out the movement’s goals, as well as the first amendment rights that the movement is using to reach its goals. Let’s start by doing it together. Follow along with me as I show you how.

Occupy Wall Street Article Occupy Wall Street is a diffuse group of activists who say they stand against corporate greed, social inequality and the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process. On Sept. 17, 2011, the group began a loosely organized protest in New York’s financial district, encamping in Zuccotti Park, a privately owned park open to the public in Lower Manhattan.