Law-Abidingness in Literature: Susan Glaspell
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Law-Abidingness in Literature: Susan Glaspell

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      Subject English Language Arts — Reading Standards for Fiction • Social Studies — US Government
      Grade Level Grades 9-12
      Resource Type Handout, Worksheet
      Standards Alignment
      Common Core State Standards
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      About This Lesson

      Does our obligation to uphold the law admit of exceptions? Debate the elementary civic virtue of law-abidingness and the appropriateness of civil disobedience after reading the short story "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell (pdf below). Visit the following links for additional resources about the story, including a study guide, biographical information and a video discussion of the story with legal scholar Christopher DeMuth and editors Amy A. Kass, Leon R. Kass, and Diana Schaub. CCSS alignment: RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3

      Standards

      Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1
      Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2
      Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
      Read More About CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3

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