Jill Schany Emmetsburg High School Emmetsburg, Iowa NBEA
2011
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Textbook: Law for Business and Personal Use o 15th Edition o
Published in 2000 Questions from Students Location, location,
location!
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Know your administrator o Open lines of communication o Open
invitation to view Know your parents o Communicate your intentions
and objectives with parents Know your kids o Parents and student
sign o Code of Conduct Code of Conduct
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Created a wiki through Wikispaces Address:
http://businesslawresources.wikispaces.com
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Many resources referred to within our presentation
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Fundamental for analytical thinking Writing assignments: o
Legal Brief/Memo Samples: Legal Brief (How To) Law and the Media
Sample o Student Samples Student Sample 1 Legal Memo Student Sample
2 Legal Memo
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Compare and Contrast Paper o Compare a Supreme Court case with
a more current case o Example: Tinker v. Des Moines and Bretton
Barber v. Dearborn Public Schools Two cases, one from the 1960s and
one from 2003 Illustrates to students that old court cases set
precedent for legal action in the United States From Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/sch olar_case?case=1304226652
3220645414&q=bretton+barb er&hl=en&as_sdt=2,11
http://scholar.google.com/sch olar_case?case=1304226652
3220645414&q=bretton+barb er&hl=en&as_sdt=2,11 Located
on wiki under Writing Opportunities
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Provides students with real life examples o Local county court
in Emmetsburg o Small town Choice of movies o Student interest
survey o Topic at hand o Consider the objective Is your objective
to analyze the argument? Is your objective to apply it to a
scenario? Example: Closing ArgumentsA Time to Kill
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Reading is the focus of our district o Each teacher, in all
content areas, required to present and document reading strategies
o The only way to get improve reading is to read more. My
philosophy of supplemental reading o Student choice o Building
background knowledge How do you assess this? o Have students write
sworn statements from the viewpoint of a character o Create a trial
timeline or event timeline with specific terms and situations
defined Discussion of reading is critical
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Chapter 1, The Firm by John Grisham Unit: Ethics in Law o
Corresponds to specific chapter in our text Objectives of book
study: o Identify and define legal terms o Relate the situation in
the book to a real life situation that is in the news and/or the
newspaper o Determine the motive for the actions of each character
in the book o Write a legal opinion regarding the actions of one of
the main character in the book and identify motives (with support),
justify his or her actions, and rule on whether or not he or she
was ethical in his or her actions
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Pick three or four amendments or issues I prefer Street Law for
the unit on Constitutional Law o Lesson plans o Background
information Street Law: Tinker v. Des MoinesTinker v. Des Moines
Background Information by Reading Level Background Information by
Reading Level Lesson Plans and Time Needed Lesson Plans and Time
Needed
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www.streetlaw.org
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Click on Teaching tab
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Assignment
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Go to StreetLaw.org site Select Background
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Adapted from streetlaw.org Landmark Case Assignment Landmark
Case Assignment
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Tinker v. Des MoinesMapp v. Ohio
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Rely on resources: family, friends, alums Sean Solberg Attorney
at Faegre and Benson in Minneapolis Specializes in Intellectual
Property Loves the opportunity to visit his former high school
Taught a three day course in intellectual property to our students
via Skype
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Anatomy of a Trial o The Mark Becker Trial in Iowa Becker shot
his high school football coach Trial focused on the insanity
defense Family Law o I Am Sam o Why teach family law? Almost all
students will be married at some point Statistics say that half
will be divorced It correlates nicely with contract law.
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Make the topic more interesting and inviting Illustrates the
uses of law o How law affects every day life o How law affects you
personally More interaction and collaboration Business Law
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If you have any questions, please contact me: o Jill Schany,
Emmetsburg High School o [email protected][email protected] Contact Information