I am being observed next week by our sup't.... As I posted previously, I don't have leeway in what I'm doing and can't really suspend my current project for this observation b/c of time constraints (2 hrs, 1x a week).... that being said, we will be up to questioning witnesses in a trial (6th gr G&T class)...

I thought I would do a mini lesson where they have to distinguish btwn an open and close-ended question and role play a few questions...(I still need a good hook!) then I would split them into 3 person teams and give each team a witness statement and a statement of the facts of the case... one person would be prosecutor, the other defense, and the 3rd would be the witness...they'd have 10 minutes to read the facts and come up with the best open-ended questions possible for this witness....then we'd share some of them and I'd ask the witness some close-ended questions based on the facts they all had so the witness could compare/contrast the experience....

then they could go back to their original legal teams and begin generating questions for their own witnesses in their trials (each group is working on separate cases...)

How does this sound?? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! :)