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Criminal justice - law Common Core CCRA.R.6 resources
Serial Podcast Season One Unit Plan: True Crime Lesson Plans, AP ELA Activities
Serial Podcast Season One by Sarah Koenig is a fantastic way to teach literary nonfiction, rhetoric, bias, and the power of storytelling. This podcast is so engaging that even your most reluctant students will be enthralled with the true crime content! This Serial unit plan will provide you with literary nonfiction activities that help students analyze the production of the podcast, discuss bias from multiple angles, examine rhetoric from a real-world perspective, and so much more. All of these
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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True Crime Podcast Informational Text Standards Unit | Middle School ELA
Do you need an engaging activity to get middle school students excited about learning informational text standards? If so, this True Crime Podcast unit plan is a must have! Assign in Google Classroom or download and print as a PDF! Both formats are included. This digital resource was created in Google Slides and is an easy, no-prep solution that will provide over two weeks of content to your students. Students will practice citing textual evidence, determining central idea, analyzing the structu
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â True Crime ELA and Reading Activities | Middle School English Language Arts
Student Lawyers: Criminal Court Mock Trials & Cases with PowerPoint
Students will get the opportunity to be lawyers and prosecute or defend an accused person in a criminal trial (11 total). Each group will consist of 2 lawyers (prosecuting and defending), and an accused person. The teacher will act as the judge and guide the jury as they vote on the verdict. The majority vote determines the verdict. This unit includes court brief handouts, directions, and PowerPoint explaining how the cases will proceed. Visit our store for much more helpful and free stuff!Crim
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The Outsiders Mock Trial
Johnny Cade is being charged with manslaughter after killing Bob the Soc. Was it self-defense, or will Johnny be Gone With the Wind? Your students will LOVE acting as witnesses, attorneys, and master debaters following their reading of S.E. Hinton's iconic novel The Outsiders! What better way to get students to practice literary analysis, argument development, and speaking and listening skills than with a mock trial! During this one week project, students will scour the text for evidence that su
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5th - 12th
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Just Mercy (nonfiction book) & 13th (documentary film) Bundle
This bundle includes resources for teaching Bryan Stevenson's nonfiction book Just Mercy and Ava DuVernay's documentary film 13th (which features Stevenson in many of its interviews).Includes guided reading/viewing questions, bell-ringer questions, and a supplemental lesson on the 13th, 14th, and 8th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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10th - 12th
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Three Little Pigs Mock Trial Activity - Digital - Project-based Learning
Take your civics, government, criminal justice, or bias & perspective learning digital with this mock trial project! Your students will listen to several version of The Three Little Pigs, then put the Third Pig on trial after walking through a series of slides about how a criminal trial looks in the American justice system. Assign some slides or all of them - they are all created for you.This product includes:- teacher pages with directions, the link to copy the Google-compatible presentat
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Three Little Pigs Mock Trial Project I Print & Digital Learning
True Crime Middle School Bell Ringers | ELA Class Openers | Back to School
Do you need an engaging activity to get middle school students excited about reading and ELA? If so, this True Crime Bell Ringers activity is a must have! Assign in Google Classroom and you have a meaningful and interesting way to start class every day! This digital resource was created in Google Slides and is an easy, no-prep solution that will provide an entire year of content to your students. Students will practice informational text comprehension, citing textual evidence, determining centra
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â True Crime ELA and Reading Activities | Middle School English Language Arts
Just Mercy (nonfiction book)
Written by lawyer Bryan Stevenson, the book is an account of his experiences as a young lawyer working in the Deep South and is a powerful argument not only for criminal justice reform and racial and economic justice, but also for finding the humanity in every person and in ourselves.These resources include guided reading questions for each chapter of the book, including the Introduction, Postscript, and Epilogue. They also include Bell Ringer questions and several culminating writing prompts. T
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10th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Just Mercy (nonfiction book) & 13th (documentary film) Bundle
Making a Murderer Season 2 Teaching Resources
This digital download contains teaching resources and editable student handouts for teaching the second season of the popular Netflix® documentary "Making a Murderer." They are aligned with the Common Core State Standards. My materials have handouts for each episode where students will chronicle the new discoveries and evidence that Steven Avery's lawyer, Kathleen Zellner, reveals. Students will make inferences and analyze the importance (or lack thereof) of the discoveries. In addition, student
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Trial Project for The Stranger by Albert Camus (Cumulative, Summative)
This resource is student-facing assignment directions laying out thorough expectations for the dynamic, interactive murder trial of Meursault as a summative, cumulative project for their study of The Stranger. The Process:Some students will assume the roles of characters to play "witnesses"; teams of lawyers will assemble in the prosecution and defense; and reporters will write serious news pieces as well as sensationalized tabloid articles about the murder. All students will use close reading s
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â The Stranger by Albert Camus: Novel Study Unit Bundle
The Hate U Give Reader Response Journal
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is an incredibly powerful and relevant novel that offers rich opportunities for discussion and reflection. This Reader's Response Journal makes it easy to integrate this important text into your curriculum and help your students develop important skills that will serve them throughout their academic and professional careers.In this structured reader's response journal for Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give students will summarize the events of each chapter, respond to
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8th - 11th
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Also included in:Â The Hate U Give Complete Novel Study Bundle CCSS Aligned
The Title I Classroom: Too Kill a Mockingbird--Boo Radley Mock Trial
We sincerely hope to save you time and provide you with a high-quality, standards-aligned resource that puts students in the driver’s seat of their knowledge of the text. Furthermore, with the mock trial, you will be able to foster a more meaningful collaborative process between your students and you the teacher through collaborative inquiry, problem-solving, and expression.To be used most effectively, you may need to adjust the class roles to include or delete areas, separate and print out mate
Grades:
8th - 10th
"Trial" by Patterson - study guide / book club
"Trial" by Richard North Patterson -There is no book study guide on the Internet!!! So, I created this one! (again!)This 6-page study guide includes three parts* prereading = true/false and short answer questions related to characters and themes* during reading = how long will it take you to read?, links to interviews and interview comparisons, and more* postreading = questions to generate group discussion, and suggested "next reads"This is the 31st study guide I have created for my Zoom book cl
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Worksheet: Comparing Ancient Law Codes
Worksheet for students on Ancient Law Codes. This includes primary source excerpts from Hammurabi's Code and Ancient Chinese law codes. Students then answer questions on the sources individually and comparing the two. Source links included if you want to change certain quotes from the codes.
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9th - 12th
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U.S. Constitution Activity: The Bill of Rights
Liven up the class discussion with this extremely useful and topical activity. Students love to discuss / debate what their rights are, and this activity can lead to energetic discussions and fiery debates on how each of the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution affect their everyday lives. While this activity can work quite well as a stand-alone activity, it is also linked to two websites that can assist students in their study of the Bill of Rights. Perfect for a Government, Civics, and Stre
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AP Language: Keith Ellison's Speech/Response to Derek Chauvin Verdict-Quiz
After the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict was announced on 4/20/21, Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison, gave this speech on live television and radio. Here are 19 MCQ questions based on the printed text of the speech available free online as well as the C-Span video link to the speech. The speech is included right after the Quiz documents. The questions focus on author's purpose, claims, evidence, figurative language, historical details, juxtaposition, parallelism, syntax of repetition, and
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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ELA Skills: Attorney Theme: Part 3 of 4
This text offers both fiction and non-fiction pieces that help students learn about what it means to be an Attorney. Students are able to practice their abilities to make inferences as well as determining the central idea of a text all while looking at situations through the lens of a prosecutor or defense attorney. Students will analyze motivations of people in different scenarios all while learning about the law profession. These activities are able to lead students to make an opening or closi
Grades:
6th - 9th
ELA Skills: Attorney Theme: Part 1 of 4
This text offers both fiction and non-fiction pieces that help students learn about what it means to be an Attorney. Students are able to practice their abilities to make inferences as well as determining the central idea of a text all while looking at situations through the lens of a prosecutor or defense attorney. Students will analyze motivations of people in different scenarios all while learning about the law profession. These activities are able to lead students to make an opening or closi
Grades:
6th - 9th
Johnny Depp V. Amber Heard Case Verdict - Video, Article, and Worksheet
This activity is designed for students to dive deeper into the Johnny Depp V. Amber Heard defamation trial of 2022. In this activity, you will find the verdict video from CNN, a supporting article, and questions. This was used in Law class but, would fit many other subject areas such as English or Social Studies. Due to some vocabulary being specific to Law, you may want to provoke you students to look up some terms. Great for media literacy of effects of Mass Media classes!- 1 video- 1 article-
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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