{"id":1906,"date":"2020-04-01T00:33:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2020-04-01T00:42:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:42:54","slug":"taylor-samanthas-project-and-write-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/major-paper-project\/taylor-samanthas-project-and-write-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor & Samantha’s Project and Write Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Due\nto being in the Special Education program at the University of Mary Washington,\nour project consists of a lesson plan that has been designed for 11th grade\nstudents and is centered around John Steinbeck\u2019s novel, Of Mice and Men.\nWanting to present a lesson that is engaging and strategic, we decided to\nincorporate the jury trial system into the lesson. Each student will be given a\ncopy of Steinbeck\u2019s novel, Of Mice and Men and as they read the book, students\nwill be taught how the legal system\/jury trial system works. Students will then\ntake what they have learned and will be asked to apply it to the novel. In\norder for students to apply it to the novel, they will be broken into groups\nand will be assigned roles. Instead of solely focusing on characters and their\ndisabilities, students will think about the events that occur within the book\nand the classroom will be turned into a courtroom. Throughout Steinbeck\u2019s\nnovel, there are many \u201calleged\u201d crimes committed and students will use\ninformation within the book to design court cases. In order to best assess the\nevents within the book, students will be asked to focus on one event and to\nassign roles, such as defense attorney, prosecuting attorney, plaintiff,\ndefendant, and witnesses to members within their groups. After assessing the\ncrimes that have occurred, students will then be able to form a court case and\nprepare for a jury trial. Assessing students is an important aspect of being a\nteacher and in order to do so, we will turn the classroom into a courtroom and\nhave the students present their cases. After the trials, teachers can grade\nstudents based on preparation, execution, persuasiveness of arguments,\nevidence, and level of seriousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nlesson plan created encourages students to think outside of the box and further\nanalyze. There are aspects, such as disabilities, for students to consider when\ndesigning their court case and holding a trial. While the majority of the\ncharacters within the novel could be tried for specific actions, students need\nto consider how the character\u2019s emotions and disabilities affected their\nactions. As an example, Lennie could be placed on trial for \u201cmurdering\u201d\nCurley\u2019s wife, but students need to determine if Lennie\u2019s actions were due to\nhis disability or if he meant to kill her. However, it will be interesting to\nsee how students react to the events within the novel and whether decisions\nwill be altered to accommodate disabilities that are present within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another aspect, as teachers, to consider is the fact that there are students with high functioning disabilities present within the classroom. In order to make sure that they understand and feel comfortable with the assignment, they will be placed in groups with students that have strong English abilities. Having students with disabilities present and involved in the trials will give other students in the classroom insight, which will hopefully better assist them with making decisions. Having diversified groups will impact the final decisions and will allow students to best analyze the situations they are dealing with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hereby declare upon my word of honor that I have neither given nor received unauthorized help on this work.\u00a0 \u2013 Taylor Butler & Samantha Rogers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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