Day 3 Plans

 

Activity	minutes
Warm-up   What do you think the other groups’ stories were like? What do you expect to hear from them today? (5)	5
Group presentations   Groups present. Non-presenting class members do worksheet (see attached)	30+
Know Your Rights   Stand up/sit down activity (see attached).   Teacher centered – hand out cards to kids, put card on overhead – review “magic words.”   Scenarios – hand out role play cards to students, (select/amend from Midnight Special trainings), do scenarios then pause for reflection – what should student have done? Re-play with correct responses. (LHM, add!)	20
Homework (see attached) Write (one page?) answering these questions: What in the Surviving Justice stories 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?

 

LHM – KYR okay here to do w/ MWH, but for final plans, switch with fishbowl

Student name:

Date:

 

Surviving Justice, Exoneree Presentations

Name of the exoneree you studied:

 

Name of other group’s exoneree (presentation #1):

How was this exoneree and his experiences similar to the man you studied?	How was this exoneree and his experiences different from the man you studied?

 

Name of other group’s exoneree (presentation #2):

How was this exoneree and his experiences similar to the man you studied?	How was this exoneree and his experiences different from the man you studied?

 

 

 

Homework Day 3

 

Write one page: What in the Surviving Justice stories surprised you? What is most important to you in the stories you read and heard? Do you think it is possible that people who have been executed were actually innocent? Why/why not?

 

Stand up/Sit down Instructions

adapted from Bay Area Police Watch

 

Explain the activity: The facilitator will read out a statement and if the statement is true for you, then you stand up. If the statement is not true for you, stay seated.

 

Statements:

 

• Stand up if you have been harassed or stopped by the cops.

 

• Stand up if you have been harassed followed around a store.

 

• Stand up if you feel like the laws in this country are set up to protect you.

 

• Stand up if you or someone you know has been falsely accused of a crime.

 

• Stand up if you feel the police will protect you if you need to call on them.

 

• Stand up if you feel the police only use force when necessary.

 

• Stand up if you or someone you know has been a victim of police misconduct.

 

• Stand up if you have ever felt intimidated by the police.

 

• Stand up if you feel the police have the right to stop and search you with no warrant.

 

• Stand up if you feel community members should work in conjunction with the police when it comes to policing their community.

 

 

After the statements have been read out, break up the group into pairs to process out any thought or feelings the exercise brought up. They can either choose to share a story that related to one of the statements or else share general reflections.

 

Invite anyone to share with the entire group.