Teaching The Runaway Jury | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 The students will be able to evaluate ideas from the text.

1) Possible Activities:
* At the end of these introductory chapters, what idea is the reader left with about the plaintiffs and the defendants. Answer in writing.
* Have the students work together in small groups to answer how the defendants are portrayed as defenseless and why this...
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