Teaching Ideas

English Lesson Plans on Crime

https://www2.ku.edu/~topeka/THEMATIC_UNITS/Crime.pdf

Talking About Crime:

    Crime is a topic that is not covered in too much depth inside a classroom yet is going on around a lot of children.  In the English Journal "There Was a Child Went Forth"  a group of 16 non-college bound students were put into a group that met once a week with 2-5 teachers and discussed man's eternal concerns.  This was a way for these students to vent and talk amungst each other about the problems that have arisen in one's life.  In this lesson, I want to be able to share with the students an example of crime that I have seen and then pair them off to talk with each other about a crime that they have seen.  How many crimes can these students come up with?  

Who is the saint?  Who is the sinner?:

    In this lesson, students will interview each other in pairs.  After the interview the students will break into groups of three (without there partner) and discuss with anonymity who in the class is a saint and who is a sinner.  This will be an interactive way to get the students discussing, pronouncing, reading, and writing about crime.  The next activity would include story problems (difficult to read) that students must identify the crime committed.  The crimes that will be included will be done by characters in books that are trending during this time period.  This way, students will become engaged with the literature they know or have heard of in order to complete activities related to the lesson.