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Period 2 Spring 2011

**Life without the right of Freedom to Assemble**

- People wouldn’t be allowed to gather in large or small groups to protest or share their ideas. - Police would be able to control almost any situation or public event. - People wouldn’t be able to be in a group all together because it might be suspicious.

**The 1st Amendment** The first amendment includes the right to peacefully assemble. This means that people may come together in a group of any size and have a common opinion in mind. The being peaceful part of this simply just means that you’re not promoting violence, or hate towards people, and physically attacking them. For example, no riots.

**Our Script**

- Announcement comes on and says: “Students make sure your wearing your ID’s and they are out, on and visible.” “Failure to follow our school rule of wearing your ID’s will result in disciplinary action.” - Students continue about their day but every time a teacher or administrator sees them without an ID on they get yelled at and sent down to the discipline office. - At this point students are becoming resistant to the sudden “crack down” on the ID’s and decide to do something about it. - All students decide to walk out of the school at the sounds of the bell at 10:30 right before A lunch. They go out the front doors of the school and throw all of their ID’s into a big pile. - They form a huge circle around all of the ID’s and everyone is completely silent. - Administration is astonished at the action that the students have just taken and call the police immediately. - Police come and start making arrests, throw teargas and try to break up the assembly.

**Our Script (2nd draft)**

- An announcement comes on and says: “Students make sure you’re wearing your ID’s and they are out, on and visible.” “Failure to follow our school rule of wearing your ID’s will result in disciplinary action.” - Students continue about their day but every time a teacher or administrator sees them without an ID on they get yelled at and sent down to the discipline office. - Just then Ray gets stopped in the hallway. Mrs. Dilmonth says “Excuse me where is your ID?!” Ray say’s “There stupid, you see us everyday, we shouldn’t have to wear them unless we are at lunch. That is the only time they are beneficial.” - “Mrs Dilmonth says “They are important for everyone’s safety and they are school policy!” “You shouldn’t question school policy” “Go down to the dicipline office.” - Ray is beyond incensed. He walks slowly down to the discipline office. - He continues into the principles office and sits down. - Mr. Tilowitz says to him “I hope you understand by now what the rules in this school are.” “You are a senior this year and need to set a good example for all the younger kids.” “People have to wear ID’s all of the time in the real world.” “You have detention after school today.” - The bell rings at the normal 2:40 time however, Ray cannot leave as usual, he must proceed to his detention. - In detention he sees a lot of his friends and fellow classmates and asks them what they are doing in there. They all answer it’s because of the stupid ID’s. - At the start of detention Ray passes a note down the line of the detainees, which says, We have to do something about this! Anyone have an idea? - The girl next to him, Tiffany, who is a rather smart girl writes, I think that we should do a silent protest and actually prove a point. Have you ever heard of the case Skokie v NSP? We can’t get in trouble for this, the Supreme Court even allowed Nazis to march through a town of Holocaust survivors. - Ray likes this idea and passes another note saying, Silent protest tomorrow. I will be making a Facebook group and please tell all of your friends to send out mass texts. - A bunch of kids catch on to this idea and by the next day the plan was completely underway. - Enough was enough and students were becoming resistant to the sudden “crack down” on the ID’s. This was the perfect plan to do something about it. - All students decide to walk out of the school at the sound of the bell at 10:30 right before A lunch. They go out the front doors of the school and throw all of their ID’s into a big pile. - They form a huge circle around all of the ID’s and everyone is completely silent. - Administration is astonished at the action that the students have just taken and call the police immediately. - Police come and start making arrests; they use the taser guns and try to break up the assembly. - Ray looks over at Tiffany and say’s “We can’t get in trouble huh?”

**Our Script (3rd draft)** - An announcement comes on and says: “Students make sure you’re wearing your ID’s and they are out, on and visible.” “Failure to follow our school rule of wearing your ID’s will result in disciplinary action.” - Students continue about their day but every time a teacher or administrator sees them without an ID on they get yelled at and sent down to the discipline office. - Just then Ray gets stopped in the hallway. Mrs. Dilmonth says “Excuse me where is your ID?!” Ray say’s “There stupid, you see us everyday, we shouldn’t have to wear them unless we are at lunch. That is the only time they are beneficial.” - “Mrs Dilmonth says “They are important for everyone’s safety and they are school policy!” “You shouldn’t question school policy” Ray is beyond incensed. - Mrs. Dilmonth says to him “I hope you understand by now what the rules in this school are.” “You are a senior this year and need to set a good example for all the younger kids.” “People have to wear ID’s all of the time in the real world.” “You have detention after school today.” - The bell rings at the normal 2:40 time however, Ray cannot leave as usual, he must proceed to his detention. - In detention he sees a lot of his friends and fellow classmates and asks them what they are doing in there. They all answer it’s because of the stupid ID’s. - At the start of detention Ray passes a note down the line of the detainees, which says, We have to do something about this! Anyone have an idea? - The girl next to him, Tiffany, who is a rather smart girl writes, I think that we should do a silent protest and actually prove a point. Have you ever heard of the case Skokie v NSP? We can’t get in trouble for this, the Supreme Court even allowed Nazis to march through a town of Holocaust survivors. - Ray likes this idea and passes another note saying, Silent protest tomorrow. I will be making a Facebook group and please tell all of your friends to send out mass texts. - A bunch of kids catch on to this idea and by the next day the plan was completely underway. - Enough was enough and students were becoming resistant to the sudden “crack down” on the ID’s. This was the perfect plan to do something about it. - All students decide to walk out of the school at the sound of the bell at 10:30 right before A lunch. They go out the front doors of the school and throw all of their ID’s into a big pile. - They form a huge circle around all of the ID’s and everyone is completely silent. - Administration is astonished at the action that the students have just taken and call the police immediately. - Police come and start making arrests; and try to break up the assembly. All of the students were then sentenced to 5 detentions apiece. - Ray looks over at Tiffany and say’s “We can’t get in trouble huh?” = = =**For the end where the students walk out of the building, we believe that it is feasible for the acting class to act out because they can use everyone from the class. It wouldn’t be the whole play that all the students would need to be in, it would only be for the silent protest at the end of the play. Besides the end part there is only 3 characters throughout the play.**=

This was not a scene. I reformatted parts of it, but the entire thing needs to be COMPLETELY rewritten. (//Students mill about during their normal morning routine. As the announcement begins, some look up, but they are generally disinterested.)// **VOICE:** Students, make sure you’re wearing your ID’s and they are out, on and visible. Failure to follow our school rule of wearing your ID’s will result in disciplinary action. (//Students continue about their day but every time a teacher or administrator sees them without an ID on they get yelled at and sent down to the discipline office.//) –This is not something feasible to show onstage. We could possibly show a specific student being sent by a teacher to the discipline office, but you would have to write that dialogue and decide whether you want to show one, a few incidents, provide students wearing IDs as a contrast, etc.- (//RAY is stopped in the hallway by MRS. DILMONTH)// **MRS. DILMONTH:** Excuse me where is your ID?! **RAY:** There They’re stupid, you see us every day, we shouldn’t have to wear them unless we are at lunch. That is the only time they are beneficial. **MRS. DILMONTH:** They are important for everyone’s safety and they are school policy! You shouldn’t question school policy. (Ray is becoming noticeably angry) –Stage directions are meant to help the actor interpret the script, not as extra narration.- **MRS. DILMONTH:** I hope you understand by now what the rules in this school are. You are a senior this year and need to set a good example for all the younger kids. People have to wear ID’s all of the time in the real world. You have detention after school today. (Both exit.) - The bell rings at the normal 2:40 time however, Ray cannot leave as usual, he must proceed to his detention. - In detention he sees a lot of his friends and fellow classmates and asks them what they are doing in there. They all answer it’s because of the stupid ID’s. –This entire section is narration and does not belong in a scene. This also cannot be shown onstage. This point would have to be gotten across in a different way.- For example: (A bell is heard. RAY and students enter, missing ID’s, and sit down disgustedly.) **STUDENT:** This is bull. All I did is forget my ID. (Other students nod in agreement.) **RAY:** You too? And you? Dang…

-At the start of detention Ray passes a note down the line of the detainees, which says, We have to do something about this! Anyone have an idea? -The girl next to him, Tiffany, who is a rather smart girl writes, I think that we should do a silent protest and actually prove a point. Have you ever heard of the case Skokie v NSP? We can’t get in trouble for this, the Supreme Court even allowed Nazis to march through a town of Holocaust survivors. - Ray likes this idea and passes another note saying, Silent protest tomorrow. I will be making a Facebook group and please tell all of your friends to send out mass texts. –How exactly do you intend to show a note being passed onstage? No matter how close an audience is, they will not be able to see this. Again, this is narration, not a scene. This can be discussed among the students in stage whispers. This entire section needs to be rewritten.- - A bunch of kids catch on to this idea and by the next day the plan was completely underway. - Enough was enough and students were becoming resistant to the sudden “crack down” on the ID’s. This was the perfect plan to do something about it. - All students decide to walk out of the school at the sound of the bell at 10:30 right before A lunch. They go out the front doors of the school and throw all of their ID’s into a big pile. - They form a huge circle around all of the ID’s and everyone is completely silent. -This also needs to be rewritten and cannot be done.- - Administration is astonished at the action that the students have just taken and call the police immediately. - Police come and start making arrests; and try to break up the assembly. All of the students were then sentenced to 5 detentions apiece. - Ray looks over at Tiffany and say’s “We can’t get in trouble huh? -With the exception of the final line, the entire second half of this cannot be performed. Not to mention it is not a scene. It is narration. The dialogue is stilted, the format is sloppy…

**For the end where the students walk out of the building, we believe that it is feasible for the acting class to act out because they can use everyone from the class. It wouldn’t be the whole play that all the students would need to be in, it would only be for the silent protest at the end of the play. Besides the end part there is only 3 characters throughout the play.** -To be perfectly frank, you could not be more wrong with this and, to be even more frank, it’s a little rude.-