Mini-Q Essay Outline Guide
Working Title:
Paragraph #1 (Introductory Paragraph)
Grabber: Schools are a safe place for students, so why change that with cyberbullying?
Background: Being cyberbullyed is a terrible experience. With the anonymity of the internet, a student could be cyberbullyed without being able to address it. This is all done online, which is when someone is active on the internet. A lot of the time it is the students own peers cyberbullying them. Cyberbullying can often damage a student to the point where it can damage their learning.
Stating the question with key terms defined: Should schools limit students’ online speech?
Thesis and road map: Should schools be able to limit online speech because it hurts students as well as teachers, it hurts …show more content…
v. Berkeley County Schools, student S.N. was cyberbullied by student K.K. (Doc C). S.N. complained and got the student K.K. suspended from school for 10 days and then suspended from school events for 90 days (Doc C). In another case, a student made a MySpace profile making fun of the her principal (Doc D). The student was suspended for 10 days and was threatened by the principal for legal action (Doc D).
Argument: These documents show that it affected the learning environment. S.N. would have left it alone if it did not affect her learning, but since she chose to tell the school, it shows that it affected her learning. In another case, a principal had to take time out of his job, which is to make the learning environment good and stable, to deal with a student. And the cyberbullying done by this student, caused other students to be disturbed in their learning. Schools should be able to limit online speech because it disturbs the learning environment.
Paragraph #4
Baby Thesis (topic sentence) for bucket three: Schools should be able to limit online speech because cyberbullying goes against civil rights
Working Title:
Paragraph #1 (Introductory Paragraph)
Grabber: Schools are a safe place for students, so why change that with cyberbullying?
Background: Being cyberbullyed is a terrible experience. With the anonymity of the internet, a student could be cyberbullyed without being able to address it. This is all done online, which is when someone is active on the internet. A lot of the time it is the students own peers cyberbullying them. Cyberbullying can often damage a student to the point where it can damage their learning.
Stating the question with key terms defined: Should schools limit students’ online speech?
Thesis and road map: Should schools be able to limit online speech because it hurts students as well as teachers, it hurts …show more content…
v. Berkeley County Schools, student S.N. was cyberbullied by student K.K. (Doc C). S.N. complained and got the student K.K. suspended from school for 10 days and then suspended from school events for 90 days (Doc C). In another case, a student made a MySpace profile making fun of the her principal (Doc D). The student was suspended for 10 days and was threatened by the principal for legal action (Doc D).
Argument: These documents show that it affected the learning environment. S.N. would have left it alone if it did not affect her learning, but since she chose to tell the school, it shows that it affected her learning. In another case, a principal had to take time out of his job, which is to make the learning environment good and stable, to deal with a student. And the cyberbullying done by this student, caused other students to be disturbed in their learning. Schools should be able to limit online speech because it disturbs the learning environment.
Paragraph #4
Baby Thesis (topic sentence) for bucket three: Schools should be able to limit online speech because cyberbullying goes against civil rights