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Integrating Government and Literature: Mock Civil and Criminal Trials Based on [em]To Kill A Mockingbird[/em]

Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 12:52pm

By Lori Kumler and Rina Palchick
In a project that connected social studies classes with literature classes, students honed academic skills as they constructed mock trials from the events of a famous novel.

http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7204/720408194.pdf [1]

Source URL: http://www.socialstudies.org/teacherslibrary/integrating-government-and-literature-mock-civil-and-criminal-trials-based-kill-mock

Links:
[1] http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7204/720408194.pdf
[2] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/historical-period/roaring-20s-great-depression
[3] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/historical-period/cold-war-civil-rights
[4] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/journal/social-education
[5] http://www.socialstudies.org/secondaryhighschool
[6] http://www.socialstudies.org/ushistory