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Criminal justice - law Common Core CCRA.R.7 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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The Hate U Give Movie/Novel Comparison Activities
This is a comprehensive and standards-aligned guide for comparing the novel The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas with the movie version. I've included activities for students to analyze the movie's scenes, direction, cinematography, acting, dialogue, and setting, comparing each to the novel. I also include numerous writing, technology, and social justice action prompts for students. My resources are both differentiated for multiple levels AND editable so you can customize them for your students.The z
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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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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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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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BRYAN STEVENSON Webquest: Worksheets and Printables
Save time with this no-prep, printable webquest featuring worksheets to engage your high school ELA students in exploring the remarkable life and works of BRYAN STEVENSON, author of JUST MERCY.This 9-page printable webquest includes 50 questions to help students discover more about BRYAN STEVENSON. Depending on your class time and your individual students, you might ...assign students to find all the answers, ordivide the questions and let students teach each other as they discover the answers.Y
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9th - 12th
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13th (documentary film)
This is a set of guided viewing questions about Ava DuVernay's 2016 documentary film 13th, which is available on Netflix. The film is about race and the criminal justice system and traces the current era of mass incarceration back to Reconstruction.VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: The film contains some graphic footage of racial violence.**Also includes bell-ringer questions and exemplar responses.
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: Just Mercy (nonfiction book) & 13th (documentary film) Bundle
Just Mercy Informational Poster Project
This assignment can be used as a pre-reading activity, completed in the middle of the reading, or done after. Included in this purchase are the student directions and rubric, as well as pictures of my students’ projects. This can also be adapted to a digital presentation.For this poster project, students are required to research all sides of a topic and remain neutral so that people who view the posters can come to their own conclusions. I allowed them to share their conclusions when they presen
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Bad Times at the El Royale/White Bear Film Guide
This is a film guide I use for my Literature, Justice, and Law course. It is for the movie Bad Times at the El Royale and "White Bear" from Black Mirror on Netflix. I pair the two of these together to analyze the role of justice and the meaning of punishment. They are also perfect for spurring conversations about morality and the justice system. My students complete the guide after each viewing day, and then after the film, we do the discussion questions in small groups before having a large gro
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Unicef: Human Rights - Presentation and Worksheets
A 1-hour Citizenship / Civics lesson on UNICEF: who they are; what they do; some of the current problems in various parts of the world where UNICEF are active.Lesson includes: PowerPoint, clips, worksheets, fully differentiated tasks for 3 levels of challenge throughout.Many more inexpensive and free resources available at my store and at my website: www.ecpublishing.co.uk
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Human Rights
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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Stanford Prison Experiment Film Guide
This is a film guide I use for my Literature, Justice, and Law course. It is for the movie Stanford Prison Experiment. My students complete the guide during viewing and after each viewing day, and then after the film, we do the discussion questions in small groups before having a large group discussion. A great extension to the film is having students read and discuss Common Lit's "Why Good People Do Bad Things" and Zimbardo's TED Talk. #crime #literaturejusticeandlaw #criminal justiceI ❤️ Follo
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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TED Talks Lesson (Why Domestic Violence Victims Don't Leave)
This worksheet is intended to be used with Leslie Morgan Steiner's TED Talk, "Why Domestic Violence Victims Don't Leave." It is appropriate for most high school-level Social Studies, Health, Life Skills, or Service Learning classes.The video, worksheet, and class discussion (recommended) can be completed in one class period. I often use this resource as part of a unit on domestic violence. In my Life Skills and Service-learning classes, I generally devote at least a week to this topic. This les
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Police Officer Brandon Tatum - Lesson Plan, Worksheet, Video
Students will explore the vital role of law enforcement with this engaging and informative lesson plan and worksheet, designed for grades 3-5, that delve into the inspiring journey of Officer Brandon Tatum.Leo & Layla’s History Adventures is a time-traveling cartoon for grades 3-5 where a brother and sister duo meet historical figures throughout history while also learning life lessons along the way. The embedded links connect to the Leo & Layla video that can be watched before the lesso
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3rd - 5th
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