How do you create protection under the law? While most Americans hear these words and think of the civil rights movement, in some cases, those rights could be violated for non-minority groups. Viewers investigate the Supreme Court case Grutter vs. Bollinger to better understand the issue of affirmative action. 

Concepts

supreme court cases, the supreme court, the american civil liberties union, civil rights, affirmative action

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Instruct students to review and compare the application to several colleges (what questions are they asking in the application?)
• Create a series of five questions and have your class answer them during the video

Classroom Considerations

• Requires access to the Internet 
• The fourth installment of a 10-part series
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Video is short, factual and easy to understand
• Visuals in the clip are an excellent way to represent the case 

Cons

• Does not provide any materials for classroom use

Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.7