Court Reporting at a Mock Trial

Do Now: Students will set up equipment to record trial.

AIMS: Students will record trial with still photos and on video.
Students will take notes during the trial for newspaper and online article
Students will incorporate background information into their notes and rough draft for article

Standards Covered:
English Language Arts: 2.3 Write research reports:
a. Define a thesis.
b. Record important ideas, concepts, and direct quotations from significant information
sources and paraphrase and summarize all perspectives on the topic, as appropriate.
c. Use a variety of primary and secondary sources and distinguish the nature and value
of each.
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the
development, organization, and style are
appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce
and publish writing as well as to interact and
collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient
command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum
of three pages in a single sitting.
HSS Standards:
Analyze the significance of the States’ Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise (1820), the Wilmot Proviso (1846), the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay’s role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision (1857), and the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858).
Describe the lives of free blacks and the laws that limited their freedom and economic opportunities.

Agenda:
1. Do Now!
2. Court Reporting Group will break into three sections: A) Video/sound recording group
B) Still photography group
C) Reporters
3. During the case each group will be record their information.
4. Each group will rough out a quick draft of their part in the case
5. Each group will upload their roughed out notes, photos and videos for later revision.
Homework: Reporters-Revise your rough draft, Video/sound people- using your the draft you've uploaded to the wiki, download and edit once more, Still photographers- begin writing captions for key photographs from photos you've uploaded to the wiki.