(Teacher Name, School, Grade and Subject)

Injustice?
LP 5
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Question
Lesson
Objective
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or Standards)
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Time
Using the
Mini Dry
Erase Boards
Get into
Groups

Enrichment
What is justice? What is injustice?
SWBAT discuss and write about what justice means to them
SW write a paragraph about justice in Ferguson MO

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1
Pen/Pencil, Internet, Doc Cam, Overhead, Computer, Paper

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METHOD
Student Activity
Students will figure out what is wrong with the sentence
that the teacher has written on the board. Then try to
correct it.
Students will try to think of an answer to the question 2 Boys 2 girls
what does Justice mean?
Students will discuss what justice is.
In groups, then as
a class
Students will discuss to the best of their ability in
In groups, then as
groups what happened in Ferguson and what
a class
happened with Eric Garner.
Students will discuss as a class what exactly happened
in Ferguson and with Eric Garner.
After discussing justice students will read an article
about Justice in the South and in Ferguson MO

11/04/14

Teacher Activity
The teacher will have a slideshow with a series of
sentences where the tense shifts and ask the
students as a class to correct them.
The teacher will have the question what does
justice mean on the board?
The teacher will have students discuss what
justice is.
The teacher will have students in their groups
discuss what they know happened in Ferguson
and Eric Garner
The teacher will lead a discussion asking
students to clarify and come up with an
understanding of what happened in Ferguson
and with Eric Garner.
The teacher will give students an article about
justice in Ferguson. Questions to guide our
reading. What is similar between the two stories,
then and now? What is different between the two
stories? How should communities react to this
tragedy?

Template authors: Michael Saleeby Timothy Welsh

Modified: Matt Kloser 7/06

(Teacher Name, School, Grade and Subject)

Students will discuss if they believe justice has been

served in Ferguson

Students will write a journal on their definition of justice

and whether justice has been served in Ferguson

The teacher will pose the question has justice

been served in Ferguson. If justice has not been
served what do we do about it. How do we
change things? Is this classism racism? What
can we do?

Template authors: Michael Saleeby Timothy Welsh

Modified: Matt Kloser 7/06

(Teacher Name, School, Grade and Subject)

Template authors: Michael Saleeby Timothy Welsh

Modified: Matt Kloser 7/06