Standard 3.2.5- Candidate uses a variety of ways to assist students in creating and critiquing a wide range of print and nonprint texts for multiple purposes and help students understand the relationship between symbols and meaning.
In my Inclusion English 10 class, we read A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer. For the majority of my students, it was the first book they had read cover to cover. We had daily discussions about abuse its implications. To continue with the theme of abuse and blame, we began researching the McMartin Abuse Trials: the longest, most expensive trials to have a hung jury in the United States. The students watched the first few clips, researched the transcripts, and found ten facts about the trial online. The majority of the students were certain that the McMartins were guilty of raping and molesting children at they family-run daycare center after having seen very little evidence to support it. Their bias was based on Ray Bucky's appearance, the media's biased stance on the case, and the children's testimonials. We then watched HBO's Film, Indictment, which dramatized the court case. Through the movie, the students found out several key facts from the trial that substantially hurt the plaintiff's case, one major point being that the first accuser who sparked the trials was a schizophrenic alcoholic. We discussed symbols in the trial that made the public assume that the McMartins were guilty, the role of children as witnesses, and what happens when someone is accused. The students discussed not only the media's role in covering the McMartin case, but also how the HBO film played a role in people's opinion of the case now. We used three different forms of media when examining the McMartin Trials: 1. The internet to research the facts from the case 2. Indictment 3. A newspaper article that featured an interview of an adult who, at the time of the trials, was a child testifying against the McMartins. He had been interviewed for the purpose of admitting that he had felt extreme pressure to "admit" that he had been abused
Standard 3.2.5- Candidate uses a variety of ways to assist students in creating and critiquing a wide range of print and nonprint texts for multiple purposes and help students understand the relationship between symbols and meaning.
In my Inclusion English 10 class, we read A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer. For the majority of my students, it was the first book they had read cover to cover. We had daily discussions about abuse its implications.
To continue with the theme of abuse and blame, we began researching the McMartin Abuse Trials: the longest, most expensive trials to have a hung jury in the United States.
The students watched the first few clips, researched the transcripts, and found ten facts about the trial online.
The majority of the students were certain that the McMartins were guilty of raping and molesting children at they family-run daycare center after having seen very little evidence to support it. Their bias was based on Ray Bucky's appearance, the media's biased stance on the case, and the children's testimonials.
We then watched HBO's Film, Indictment, which dramatized the court case. Through the movie, the students found out several key facts from the trial that substantially hurt the plaintiff's case, one major point being that the first accuser who sparked the trials was a schizophrenic alcoholic.
We discussed symbols in the trial that made the public assume that the McMartins were guilty, the role of children as witnesses, and what happens when someone is accused. The students discussed not only the media's role in covering the McMartin case, but also how the HBO film played a role in people's opinion of the case now.
We used three different forms of media when examining the McMartin Trials:
1. The internet to research the facts from the case
2. Indictment
3. A newspaper article that featured an interview of an adult who, at the time of the trials, was a child testifying against the McMartins. He had been interviewed for the purpose of admitting that he had felt extreme pressure to "admit" that he had been abused