Courtroom Lingo

As we get closer to the courtroom scene in To Kill a Mockingbird, the students will need to brush up on their courtroom lingo in order to follow the events of Atticus's iconic speech. Below is a screenshot of a web-quest that I did with my students to prepare them. For this lesson, I used Edmodo and a couple of sites I found relating to the vocabulary. Students worked together to find the definitions of these terms. This prepared them to read the courtroom scene without time-consuming interruptions to explain what the terms being used meant.

Jury Service

Glossary of Courtroom Terms