Monday, December 9th

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.

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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Starter
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