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Monday, December 9th

12/9/2013

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EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES: 
  • Email me your SFoC seminar prep BEFORE school begins on Monday morning = 2 points E.C.
  • By 8:14 am on Monday morning: Send me a funny or inspirational video (keep it school appropriate and no longer than 5 minutes) =2 points E.C.
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I pity 'da fool (lawyer) who doesn't read this:
Final Report on Japanese Evacuation of West Coast (authored by Dewitt with contribution by Bendetson; delivered to Stimson)
  • Excerpts 
  • Full-text (Table of Contents is on page 010)

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What are POLs and why do we do them?

(Write this as if you were going to explain POLs to one of our new students.)

Agenda:
1. Announcements + Review this week's homework
  • Remember- Comparison chart of Zinn v. Patriot's History chapters needs to be done before class on Friday (time to work on Thursday)
  • Lawyer Matt Kenna will be here Thursday to work with teams for an hour each and there may be another lawyer here on Wednesday as well.
  • Avalanche 1 course + backcountry ski club meeting in my room at lunch on Tuesday.  Ski tuning clinic in Heerschap's room after school Tuesday!
  • Print out and turn in your seminar prep before the end of first hour
  • Tomorrow's SFOC Seminar Groups
  • Awesome resources listed below and now on the Korematsu Project Page

2. POL Guidelines
  • Read through the Task Statement 
  • Watch a clip from Office Space with the Bobs
  • Check out the rubric
  • Check out potential interview panel questions
  • Review the schedule for your POL and which two students you need to panel for
  • Q and A
  • 10 minute brainstorm: In tough economic times, why should we keep you? Why are you a valuable asset to this institution? How is your performance ensuring that you will continue to have a job?
  • Mini-critique:  Share your brainstorm with a partner.  Give your partner suggestions on other ways that he/she may contribute that he/she may have initially overlooked.

3. Direct Examination
  • Video of example direct examination
  • What do you notice about the type of questions asked during the DIRECT examination shown in the youtube video?
  • Ashley explains direct-examination handout and goals for lawyers and witnesses today
  • Witnesses: Please share your 1st witness bio with me as a google document. Extension on 2nd witness bio to Friday, end of class.

4. Check-in with your trial group. Decide what your group needs to accomplish today and this week.  Spokesperson- report out.

5.  Trial Work Time

HELPFUL Mock Trial RESOURCES
A.  Helpful Links for Evidence/Reports/Background info
  • Compilation of memos/letters/reports by various key internment camp "players"
  • Good source for Biddle witness and lawyers (pages 53-55)
  • Good source for Hoover witness and lawyers
  • Good source for DeWeitt witness and lawyers

B. Direct-Examination Video (see the embedded video below)

C.  Info on Curtis Munson and the Munson report-  GOOD source for both prosecution and defense. 

  •  http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Munson_Report/
  • http://home.comcast.net/~eo9066/1941/41-11/Munson.html

D. Examples of Opening Statements:
  • Murder Trial Opening Statement
  • Opening Statement from Nuremberg Trial- Supreme Court

E.  Examples of Closing Statements:
  • Criminal Case Closing Statement Example (not a real trial)
  • From the film A Time To Kill (murder trial- sensitive content here)

F.  Examples of Cross Examination Questions:
    • University of South Carolina Mock Trial: Expert Witness
G.  Direct-Examination Questions:
  • Examples of 
  • See below for how to conduct an effective direct examination

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