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LESSON PLAN

Nov. 19, 2007

Death Penalty

Topic: Conflicts among values and principles in American political and social life

Standard 13: Understands the character of American political and social conflict and factors that tend to prevent or lower its intensit

 

Benchmark 1.  Knows conflicts that have arisen regarding fundamental values and principles (e.g., conflicts between liberty and equality, conflicts between individual rights and the common good, conflicts between majority rule and minority rights)

Discussion Questions

  1. What is the Eighth Amendment?

  2. Do you think the death penalty is a form of cruel and unusual punishment?

  3. What do you consider cruel and unusual punishment?

  4. Do you notice racial disparities with the death penalty?

Media Literacy

At least 16 executions have been delayed throughout the United States. What role (if any) has the media played in this?


Writing Experience

The U.S. Supreme Court is examining whether the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment. Write three paragraphs explaining why you agree or disagree with the death penalty.

 


Vocabulary

- Eighth Amendment

- Supreme Court

- Death penalty

- Racial Disparities

- Capital Punishment

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