Classroom Whip Pick one of the five following questions and be prepared to share your answer with the class: 1.What is your favorite Halloween memory?

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Classroom Whip Pick one of the five following questions and be prepared to share your answer with the class: 1.What is your favorite Halloween memory? 2.If you could have one superpower, what would it be? 3.What is the one word your best friend would use to describe you? 4.What is your favorite food? 5.What song HAS to be on your iPOD/MP3 player? National Security Essay due – please hand them in

Learning Target Explain Thomas Jefferson and Henry David Thoreau’s ideas on what to do when faced with unacceptable government actions or laws.

Jefferson and Thoreau Handout Read excerpts from the Declaration Answer questions 1-4 Read excerpts from Civil Disobedience What is civil disobedience? What part(s) of the Constitution support it? Answer questions 1-4

Comparison Chart Switch the titles – Jefferson and Thoreau Work with a partner on this section

Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau - Civil DisobedienceCivil Disobedience Dictionary.com: the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy, characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting, picketing, and nonpayment of taxes.

Civil Disobedience Quotes Pick a quote and explain why either Jefferson or Thoreau would have agreed with it: 1.Never do anything against conscience even if the [government] demands it. ~Albert Einstein 2.No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime. ~Hermann Keyserling 3.When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. ~Veterans Fast for Life 4.If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ~Louis D. Brandeis