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Supplemental Resources to Teach Business Law

Supplemental Resources to Teach Business Law. Jill Schany Emmetsburg High School Emmetsburg, Iowa NBEA 2011. Why Supplemental Resources? . Textbook: Law for Business and Personal Use 15th Edition Published in 2000 Questions from Students Location, location, location!.

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Supplemental Resources to Teach Business Law

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  1. Supplemental Resources to Teach Business Law Jill Schany Emmetsburg High School Emmetsburg, Iowa NBEA 2011

  2. Why Supplemental Resources? • Textbook: Law for Business and Personal Use • 15th Edition • Published in 2000 • Questions from Students • Location, location, location!

  3. Decision Making Process • Know your administrator • Open lines of communication • Open invitation to view • Know your parents • Communicate your intentions and objectives with parents • Know your kids • Parents and student sign • Code of Conduct

  4. Our Resources • Created a wiki through Wikispaces • Address: http://businesslawresources.wikispaces.com

  5. Navigation Bar • Many resources referred to within our presentation

  6. Writing in the Business Law Curriculum • Fundamental for analytical thinking • Writing assignments: • Legal Brief/Memo • Samples: • Legal Brief (How To) • Law and the Media Sample • Student Samples • Student Sample 1 Legal Memo • Student Sample 2 Legal Memo

  7. Activities That Require Writing • Compare and Contrast Paper • Compare a Supreme Court case with a more current case • Example: Tinker v. Des Moines and Bretton Barber v. Dearborn Public Schools • Two cases, one from the 1960’s and one from 2003 • Illustrates to students that “old” court cases set precedent for legal action in the United States • From Google Scholar • http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13042266523220645414&q=bretton+barber&hl=en&as_sdt=2,11 • Located on wiki under Writing Opportunities

  8. Student Samples

  9. Movies in the Business Law Curriculum • Provides students with “real life” examples • Local county court in Emmetsburg • Small town • Choice of movies • Student interest survey • Topic at hand • Consider the objective • Is your objective to analyze the argument? • Is your objective to apply it to a scenario? Example: Closing Arguments—A Time to Kill

  10. Suggested Movies

  11. Movies from YouTubehttp://businesslawresources.wikispaces.com/Movies

  12. Ford Pinto from YouTube

  13. Court Brieffrom Google Scholar

  14. Literature in the Business Law Curriculum • Reading is the focus of our district • Each teacher, in all content areas, required to present and document reading strategies • The only way to get improve reading is to read more. • My philosophy of supplemental reading • Student choice • Building background knowledge • How do you assess this? • Have students write “sworn statements” from the viewpoint of a character • Create a trial timeline or event timeline with specific terms and situations defined • Discussion of reading is critical

  15. Book Study Suggestionshttp://businesslawresources.wikispaces.com/Book+Studies

  16. Example of Book Study • Chapter 1, The Firm by John Grisham • Unit: Ethics in Law • Corresponds to specific chapter in our text • Objectives of book study: • Identify and define legal terms • Relate the situation in the book to a real life situation that is in the news and/or the newspaper • Determine the motive for the actions of each character in the book • Write a legal opinion regarding the actions of one of the main character in the book and identify motives (with support), justify his or her actions, and rule on whether or not he or she was ethical in his or her actions

  17. Using Book Study to Teach Reading StrategyMaking an inference

  18. Constitutional Law • Pick three or four amendments or issues • I prefer Street Law for the unit on Constitutional Law • Lesson plans • Background information • Street Law: Tinker v. Des Moines • Background Information by Reading Level • Lesson Plans and Time Needed

  19. Street Law www.streetlaw.org

  20. Street Law Click on Teaching tab

  21. Street Law Assignment

  22. Reading Levels Go to StreetLaw.org site Select Background

  23. Landmark Case Assignment • Adapted from streetlaw.org • Landmark Case Assignment

  24. Student Samples from Street Law Tinker v. Des Moines Mapp v. Ohio

  25. Skype in the Classroom Attorney at Faegre and Benson in Minneapolis Specializes in Intellectual Property Loves the opportunity to visit his former high school Taught a three day course in intellectual property to our students via Skype • Rely on resources: family, friends, alums • Sean Solberg

  26. Other Resources • Anatomy of a Trial • The Mark Becker Trial in Iowa • Becker shot his high school football coach • Trial focused on the insanity defense • Family Law • I Am Sam • Why teach family law? • Almost all students will be married at some point • Statistics say that half will be divorced • It correlates nicely with contract law.

  27. Supplemental Resources Business Law • Make the topic more interesting and inviting • Illustrates the uses of law • How law affects every day life • How law affects you personally • More interaction and collaboration

  28. Questions Contact Information • If you have any questions, please contact me: • Jill Schany, Emmetsburg High School • jschany@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us

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