Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Warm Up - Tuesday, 5/31 - Hope you ejoyed your Memorial Day weekend! Hope you didn't DANCE...

To dance or not to dance?  I prefer to dance...but in fact, there were several people arrested at the Jefferson Memorial this weekend for doing just that...

Read this article to find out about it, I barely believed it myself.

Make sure you've read the whole article, some of the finer points are subtle.  Try to answer these questions about the article:
1) Why did the US Court of Appeals rule that dancing at a memorial is forbidden?
2) The author spins this as an example of civil disobedience, do you agree with that statement?
3) Were the police doing the right thing when they arrested these 5 people?  Defend your answer in two to three sentences.