Middle school law and legal studies resources

Product Description Students will get the opportunity to be lawyers and prosecute or defend an accused person in a criminal trial (11 total). Each group will consist of 2 lawyers (prosecuting and defending), and an accused person. The teacher will act as the judge and guide the jury as they vote on the verdict. The majority vote determines the verdict. This unit includes court brief handouts, directions, and PowerPoint explaining how the cases will proceed. Visit my store for much more helpful and free stuff! Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.1.A Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.1.B Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.1.C Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.1.D Establish and maintain a formal style. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.1.E Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented. This lesson is student-centered meaning: --it allows you to become a facilitator --happier teachers --happier students --happier administrators

Moors Murders Ian Brady Myra Hindley ~ SERIAL Murders England. This product contains a full presentation, a test and flashcards. This is a complete presentation about Moors Murders by Ian Brady and Yvonne Hindley. THERE ARE MANY ACTUAL SLIDES FOR YOUR REVIEW IN THE PREVIEW. THIS IS YOUR BEST INDICATION OF PRODUCT QUALITY TEXT EXCERPT ~ Ian Brady made a fatal miscalculation in October 1965 about David Smith. ~ Smith idolized Brady but without realizing how “advanced” Brady was into crime. ~ Smith was a lower level criminal. High crimes like murdering children had never crossed his mind. ~ Brady was indoctrinating Smith as he’d done to HIndley. ~ Hindley saw the danger of letting her sister and her husband see too much but Brady would not listen to her warnings. ~ Smith’s police statement said: ~ "When I ran in, I just stood inside the living room and I saw a young lad. He was lying with his head and shoulders on the couch and his legs were on the floor. He was facing upwards. Ian was standing over him, facing him, with his legs on either side of the young lad's legs. The lad was still screaming ... Ian had a hatchet in his hand ... he was holding it above his head and he hit the lad on the left side of his head with the hatchet. I heard the blow, it was a terrible hard blow, it sounded horrible.” ~ At 6:07 am Smith made an emergency services call to the police. he told his story to the officer on duty and then made his full statement when he got to the station. ~ the police had no idea that Brady and Hindley were the killers.

This resource contains a powerpoint which covers the following topics of Civil Courts: Introduction of Civil Courts, The Three Track System, Civil Court Procedures, How to file a Claim, Evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of using Civil Courts, Jurisdictions of High Court (the divisions). Alongside this, there are revision handouts which contain notes and important information for students to revise on for when they have an assessment. Each document has the needed information for the topic of civil courts. Moreover, there are definition sheets which students may need for when they read the sheets, this will help with their vocabulary in law.

This is a resource used for people who are learning the basic definitions of law.

GCSE Citizenship 9-1 Nine Example Assessments with Answers and feedback and Action Points to improve. This bundle contains: 9 x Assessment papers cover a range of topics for the NEW GCSE Citizenship 9-1 9 x Answer papers including model answers 9 x Source Extract Bonus = 9 Multiple choice quizzes for either Ks4 or KS3 students. GCSE Citizenship 9-1. Each item will have an answer sheet for student/teacher/peer feedback a Question paper and some sources. These resources are matched against the tougher new requirements of GCSE Citizenship (9-1). These resources work well with my other popular GCSE Citizenship Resources… Student Election Campaigning Resource UK 2017 Educational Election Quiz Learning about the United Nations European Union and Brexit Community and Multicultural Britain NATO, WTO and the Commonwealth New 9-1 GCSE Citizenship Assessments and Feedback Bundle Learning about the law – Civil and Criminal and the Justice System

This is a complete presentation on Aaron Hernandez - CTE Brain Injury - Murder Defenses - Criminal Law. There is also a 20 point multiple choice test with answer key plus a complete set of Flashcards for class discussion and reviewing the presentation. THERE ARE MANY ACTUAL SLIDES FOR YOUR REVIEW ON THIS PAGE. THIS IS YOUR BEST INDICATION OF PRODUCT QUALITY. The author is a retired lawyer, instructor and textbook writer. EXCERPT: Odin Lloyd was murdered in North Attleborough, Massachusetts on June 17, 2013. He sustained 6–10 gunshot wounds. Lloyd was a 27-year-old semiprofessional football player. Lloyd was dating Shaneah Jenkins, the sister of Hernandez’s fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins, in 2013. So Lloyd and Hernandez were seeing one another socially as a result of dating two sisters. At a Boston nightclub, Rumor, Hernandez saw Lloyd speaking with a group of people who knew Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. Those two men were killed on July 16, 2012 by gunshots fired into their vehicle in Boston's South End after leaving Cure Nightclub. A witness testified Hernandez got upset at Lloyd for speaking with these people and stormed out of the club. Surveillance footage in several locations established the following series of events which occurred: - Odin Lloyd leaving his home and getting into a silver Nissan Altima with Hernandez, Wallace, and Ortiz. - Lloyd exchanged texts with his sister while telling her he was with Hernandez. - 3:25 a.m. surveillance camera footage shows the car is driving toward a secluded gravel pit. At 3:29 a.m. the car is shown driving back. - Later that day Lloyd’s body is discovered in the gravel pit by a jogger.

FREE to new tes accounts with code OUTSTANDINGOCT at checkout. Drugs, cigarettes, vaping and alcohol: A short PSHE unit of 4x fully resourced PSHE lessons. Each includes: 1hr PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, differentiated fully for MA,LA or Core, designed to fit Ofsted criteria for' Good' or above. PSHE / Citizenship / Form time Many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education

These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of the different American Heroes. This product contains 24 cards with definitions and images for each term: ♦ Abraham Lincoln ♦ Amelia Earhart ♦ Barack Obama ♦ Benjamin Franklin ♦ Betsy Ross ♦ Booker T. Washington ♦ Davy Crockett ♦ Elizabeth Coleman ♦ Frederick Douglass ♦ George Washington ♦ George Washington Carver ♦ Harriet Tubman ♦ Helen Keller ♦ Jackie Robinson ♦ Martin Luther King ♦ Neil Armstrong ♦ Patrick Henry ♦ Paul Revere ♦ Rosa Parks ♦ Sally Ride ♦ Samuel Adams ♦ Sojourner Truth ♦ Susan B. Anthony ♦ Thomas Jefferson

Philippe Sands outlines the international laws that prohibit governments from killing individuals or groups.

Who are human rights for?

Note template and accompanying powerpoint dealing with an introduction to actus reus, including principles of involuntariness and liability for omissions. A second set will follow on causation

This Reading Comprehension worksheets bundle is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The texts narrate the life and work of a number of notable individuals from the world of politics, science and arts. After carefully reading each text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, gap filling exercises, True or False, character match and definitions matching exercises, word searches and crosswords. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.