Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" Mock Trial Bundle - Engaging Activity

Engage your students with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" by facilitating a mock trial while practicing close reading, citing strong and thorough textual evidence, analyzing evidence, persuasion/argumentation/debate, writing, and speaking/listening. This is truly an authentic learning experience that covers a wide range of essential skills and gets every student involved! This bundle contains the discussion cards I use to activate students' thinking before the mock trial, as well as the complete mock trial resource (which can be used for ANY text, not just "The Black Cat").

This bundle of Google Drive resources contains absolutely everything you need to implement a successful mock trial:

-Very thorough teacher instructions

-Prosecution team outline

-Defense team outline

-Jury team assignment (creating a rubric)

-Jury individual assignment (arguments for an against)

-Mock trial structure

-Mock trial preference Google form

-Integrating evidence mini-lesson

-Rubric "master doc" (all rubrics in order for efficient grading)

-Self-Evaluation & reflection Google form

-Judge/Jury/Defense/Prosecution signs

This product is a PDF that contains instructions and LINKS to all of the documents. You will need a Google account to access the files.Your students will need Google drive or another platform (such as Microsoft OneDrive) that allows you to digitally share these documents with them.