Period 2: Intro to Civil Law, Day 5 - Class Recap

One of the topics addressed in today's reading was about civil lawsuits relating to airline bombings. This is a picture I took of a famous airline - Air France - flying in over Maho Bay, St. Maarten in the Caribbean (2009).

Hi everyone,

Hopefully the book work today was not too boring and you are feeling good about where you are in class and the upcoming weekend. Here's what happened today.

Soundtrack: “Remedy” by The Black Crowes. Selected because "remedy" is one of our vocabulary words, as in the restitution owed to make up for a harm done. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 10/4/13:
Tort Report
Finish Chapter 18
Review
Mosley v. Portland Public Schools

Homework: Start reviewing vocab from Chapter 18. Turn in missing work. Check the blog! Tort Report assigned to: Patrick.

Tort Report: Brenda brought in a news article about the incident in Washington, DC yesterday. It did not have to do with civil law (at least, at the moment), but here it is to check out: Yahoo.com - Attempt to Ram White House Gate Ends With Female Suspect Dead.

Patrick is up next class and he already emailed me an article. Thanks!

Finish Chapter 18: For much of the class, it was quiet work time to be looking over various definitions relating to torts and thinking about different situations they could apply. As I said in the room, we do not have enough Street Law books for every law class, so we just have a class set, which means that sometimes, we will just have to sit and focus on book work. Not my favorite, but necessary so that we get a sense of the terms and situations. I will present the same information in other formats, as well.

Review: I always love talking about these sorts of situations (which came up as the answers to 18.1-11). We went through the answers up to 18.4 in class today, and we will continue this next class. To be honest, I value the discussion and critical thinking from students way more than just the answers in the notebook. That you are actively engaged and thinking about these situations is so important for understanding the content.

Mosley v. Portland Public Schools: To end class, I handed out an actual case that occurred about 20 years ago at Jefferson High School in Portland, having to do with a student getting knifed and then suing the district. I divided the class in half and then had the two sides debate. Next class, we will look at the actual result and answer the questions related to the case.

Have a great weekend!