Activity

minutes

Warm-up

Write 3 outstanding questions from reading your exoneree’s oral history. (5 min)

5

Making meaning/clarifiying

Option 1: Whole-class problem-solving. Teacher pulls out Warm-up responses, helping students share out/break down general questions that can be useful for whole class. Encourage class members to grapple with answering each other’s questions. (10)

Option 2: Peer Problem-Solving (see attached) (20+ min)

a.     Select one strong facilitator per group. You may want to prepare the facilitator prior to the activity. Groups select a note-taker.

b.     Every group member should have his/her Talk to the Text or Metacognitive Reflections out, and should have select five comments (one of each type).

c.     The facilitator asks a first group member to share his/her

question. The note-taker writes it down. Then the facilitator asks the group to share comments, opinions, potential answers, making sure to get feedback from all group members. The note-taker writes down key points of the discussion.

d.     The facilitator then moves on to the next group member,

repeating the process.

e.     After all group members have shared questions and the group has discussed each one, they move on to unknown vocabulary, and repeat the process for all comment types.

10

or

20+

Expert group study

Groups complete Surviving Justice Exoneree Worksheet (see attached)

Everybody writes answers on his/her own paper.

20

Presentation Preparation

Hand each group a prepared piece of chart paper (see attached Model Exoneree Chart) which they complete based on information from their Exoneree Worksheet.

15

Homework: Write one page answering these questions: What in your Surviving Justice story surprised you? What is most important to you? Do you think it is possible that people who have been executed were actually innocent? Why/why not?