This week students will begin their rough draft of their trial opening statement on whether Brother, from The Scarlet Ibis, is guilty or innocent of the death of Doodle. We will be going over what a trial, jury, prosecutor, a defense attorney are. In addition, we will break down the opening statement into the following parts:

Theme

Appeal to Emotion

Theory

Claim

Evidence

Appeal to Expert

Summary

Verdict

In addition, students will continue to work on their writing by focusing on forming compound sentences from two simple sentences using and, for, but, so, or.