Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Scopes Trial Simulation
The Scopes Trial occurred in 1925 in Tennessee. The defendant, John Thomas Scopes, was charged with violating Tennessee's Butler act, which made it illegal to teach evolution in any state funded school. The trial helped bring a lot of publicity to the issue of evolution in schools. In our simulation we are doing something similar to this, except two legal teams are arguing whether state funded science classes should be allowed to teach intelligent design or not. In this simulation, we have the legal teams, who are the lawyers, the witnesses, and the jurors. There are two legal teams, for and against intelligent design, who question the witnesses. The witnesses have to learn their part and prepare for being questioned. And the jurors deliberate at the end and decide whose side they agree with.
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Thanks for the extra background about the Scopes trial! I didn't know that the law was only valid in Tennessee. Good detail about the structure of this mock trial.
ReplyDeleteDid you have a reason as to why you joined the juror side? What grabbed your attention? How was it being a juror? Was it hard and was preparing for it difficult? Anyways, you explained everything really well and gave your overall outlook on the simulation.
ReplyDeleteYa I think its a really cool thing for you to post even more background on the trial, really helpful to others. Also I really like that you gave a brief overview of the general simulation. It is simple but I think it really helps with comprehension.
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