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Spice up your lesson on crime and punishment with You Be the Judge
In this post I’d like to share with you this educational tool I discovered a few years ago, which I love using with my advanced students of English. It’s called You Be The Judge (Australian version: You Be The Judge ) and I always use it as complementary material for my classes related to crime and punishment. It’s also a great self-study or teaching resource for students of criminal law.
In a nutshell, You Be the Judge is an interactive guide to sentencing with real life criminal cases where you are put in the place of the judge. As you click on each case, you hear the defendant’s plea, listen to the facts, hear the aggravating and mitigating factors, and it’s your task to decide on the sentence. At the end, you get to see the sentence passed by the judge in the real case and you can compare it to yours.
Each case is divided up into handy, little parts and each part is followed by a question related to its content. As the students listen to more and more facts being presented about each case, they try to decide on the sentence that would best match the crime. A transcript of the video content is also available for those who might need it.
I love You Be the Judge as there is a great deal of useful language to be learnt and a lot of fun to be had. I find my students thoroughly enjoy role-playing the judge and the whole lesson has them completely engrossed from start to finish. There is a good reason why crime series are so popular on TV and crime novels are usually the best selling book genre. We all enjoy a bit of crime drama, don’t we? The best way to go about using this tool is to first introduce the students to the target language used in the video such as magistrate court, crown court, the defendant, to plead, mitigating factors, aggravating factors, etc. You might also want to have a discussion beforehand about sentencing and the system of punishment used in their country/countries. Finally let the classroom transform into a courtroom and You Be The Judge.
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Video: ‘You Be the Judge’ Gives Students First-Hand View of SentencingPublished on September 3, 2015 An innovative U.S. courts program has students serving as federal judges in courtrooms to experience what it is like to make difficult sentencing decisions — involving their own peers. A newly released video shows high school students, guided through a simulated court case by a federal judge, deciding an appropriate sentence for a 17-year-old charged with starting a forest fire in a national park. The presiding judge leads the student judges through a discussion of aggravating and mitigating circumstances that make their sentencing decisions a close call. The roles of the defendant, his parents and high school coach all are played by selected students, while their peers serve as judges responsible for deciding the sentence. The “You Be the Judge” series of sentencing scenarios has been tested in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia with national student groups visiting Washington. The program is available to interested federal courts across the country. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who is seen in the video presiding over a student hearing, calls the program a “golden opportunity” to educate young people about the legal consequences of bad decisions. Explore other court-focused educational programs and resources . Related Topics: Public Education |
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It's also a great self-study or teaching resource for students of criminal law. In a nutshell, You Be the Judge is an interactive guide to sentencing with real life criminal cases where you are put in the place of the judge. As you click on each case, you hear the defendant's plea, listen to the facts, hear the aggravating and mitigating ...
a statement made to the jury at the beginning of a trial by an attorney. The attorney briefly outlines the case. witness. someone who sees an event and reports what happened. overruled. a judge's decision to ignore a lawyer's objection and allow the questioning to continue. perjury.
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Be the Judge Sample Batch. 1. Office Smokers Take My Breath Away. Asthmatic employee wants his workplace to accommodate him by forcing everyone to smoke only in their offices. 2. Grandma Was Racist! Grandma leaves money to the hospital for white babies only. 3. Drugged into Fidelity.
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your ideas with evidence from the text. · the tone/mood of the text. Describe the author's attitude about their subject and the feeling the author creates through their diction and syntax. · the theme the author is sharing. If you wish, discuss more than one theme. Do not give away the ending, but let readers know what type of life lesson they might learn from reading the text.
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The "You Be the Judge" series of sentencing scenarios has been tested in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia with national student groups visiting Washington. The program is available to interested federal courts across the country. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who is seen in the video presiding over a ...
Then, you are going to have the opportunity to listen to three cases and make a ruling. 2. Pass out copies of the Wyoming Constitution (or provide the link to the Wyoming Constitution online) and the You Be the Judge Worksheet packet (see below). 3. You will start by identifying the rights of the accused that are defined in the Wyoming ...
YOU BE THE JUDGE. Read the following cases and make a decision. Write down your answers and we will discuss next week. Case # Appearing before you in court is a 21 year old indigenous man from Atikamekw First Nation community of Wemotiaci, located 270 km north of Montreal.