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Project – Crime and Punishment
Project – Crime and Punishment
Purpose: This lesson is intended as a guide to help students work in a virtual environment making connections with different aspects of crime that blends listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Grade level: This thematic unit is intended for the students in high school (10-11th)
advanced level classrooms.
Materials: Vocabulary: To learn crime and punishment vocabulary and their definitions.
Task I.
Do this crime and punishment quiz: – What crime is being committed in each of these cases?
1. A thief goes into your house through a window.
fraud
burglary
vandalism
2. A child steals a chocolate bar from a store.
assault
child abuse
shoplifting
3. A car is driven faster than the limit.
speeding
drunk-driving
trafficking
4. An American dealer sells cocaine to a Canadian buyer.
theft
smuggling
drug trafficking
5. A guard refuses to give a prisoner food or water unless the prisoner gives up information.
abduction
torture
hijacking
6. A police officer shoots and kills an unarmed teenager who refused to obey him.
murder
terrorism
assault
7. A person throws a lit match into a building and it catches fire.
arson
burglary
domestic violence
8. A terrorist group takes over an airplane and changes its course.
vandalism
trafficking
hijacking
9. A man regularly assaults his wife and children.
homicide
domestic violence
abduction
10. A dishonest lawyer charges a client for more hours of work than he really did.
burglary
armed robbery
fraud
Task II. Choose one of the short stories, read and understand it, write down the unknown words and expressions and give their definitions. Write your opinion about the story you have read.
Grammar: The Passive (Crime) and Conditionals – Review how the passive is formed. Students will be able to recognize and form passive sentences.
Review some conditional structures and use them in your tasks; such as: as long as, unless, otherwise, in case, if … were to, if … should, but for … noun and so on.
Task III.
You are given some crime and punishment essay titles.
Please in 200 – 250 words or less prepare your personal statement on the topics below. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
1.Some people think certain prisoners should be made to do unpaid community work instead of being put behind bars. To what extent do you agree?
2.The crime rate nowadays is decreasing compared to the past due to advance technology which can prevent and solve crime. Do you agree or disagree?
3. Some people think that women should not be allowed to work in the police force. Do you agree or disagree?
Task IV.
Finally, I would like you to develop a new habit of putting your thoughts on paper, as Agatha Christie, one of the most popular English writers, did. It is said that she was encouraged to write by her mother. Whenever she didn’t feel well, she wrote. Fortunately you are well. So try to write your own short stories. I am sure you’ll succeed.
- After completing the project Crime and Punishment the 10th graders played a game “To solve an unsolved case” (The Murder Mystery Game), and also wrote about that unsolved case and gave their solution to it.
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