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The ninth grade reading list at Anton’s school included a number of canonical texts with a common motif: Sophocles’ Antigone, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, and Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons. At the same time, Anton’s social studies class discussed the civil rights movement and, specifically, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.” Because the idea of resisting laws cut across their disciplines, Anton’s English and American History teachers decided to assign a cross disciplinary assignment focused on an argumentative task. The assignment unfolded in three steps.