Period 2: Introduction to Law, Day 4 - Class Recap

I took this picture of Jay Z singing a track off of his new album Magna Carta... Holy Grail in London this past summer. We talked in class about the Magna Carta (document of law) today!

Hello everyone,

Slowly but surely, we are getting there! I promise that class will get a little more interactive and probably interesting soon. We just really need to have some ground work done for how we discuss the subject. Thank you for working so hard today!

Soundtrack: “Mean” by Taylor Swift. Selected because if there were no mean people in the world, maybe we wouldn't need law at all! Lyrics here.

AGENDA 9/12/13:
Torts Report
Finish Reading Chapter 1/Definitions
Intro to Law PowerPoint
Review Sheet

Homework: Study/review vocabulary terms. Check the blog and post a comment! Tort Report assigned to: Miles L.

Torts Report: Daniel K. led us off with a really interesting case of a man being awarded $21.4 million in a judgement against two men convicted of attacking him and causing him to be paralyzed from the waist down. The article Daniel found can be viewed here: BalitmoreSun.com - Judge Awards $21.4 million to Randallstown High shooting victim. Great example of what I am looking for! The more interesting lawsuit, the better. Remember that I want it to be in the United States and within the last year or so, please.

Finish Reading Chapter 1/Definitions: I know this is not the most exciting stuff. Thank you for working so hard and for hopefully understanding why we are doing this. As a review, the terms we are primarily concerned with learning in Chapter 1 are: Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Felony, Misdemeanor, Civil Law, Civil Action, Defendant, Plaintiff, Prosecutor, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Preponderance of the Evidence, Limited Government, Separation of Powers, Statutes, Checks and Balances, Judicial Review, Unconstitutional, Federalism, and Bill of Rights.

Intro to Law PowerPoint: Next, I tried to go over the same terms and explain them in a way that hopefully made more sense. Here is a link to the PowerPoint, if you want to review it:

Google Drive: Intro to Law PowerPoint

Complete with all sorts of photos I have personally taken! Here's the link to the Judge Judy clip I showed as a part of the presentation.

Review Sheet: At the end of class, I passed out a review sheet for the terms we went over (along with a few new ones). Many students seemed to finish this in class. We will go through it together next Monday (sorry, I do not have an electronic copy to post).

Have a great weekend and let me know if I can be helping you at any point with the material we are covering!