This is a lot of material to cover. A 6-day project should be enough time. For your lecture, will you have visual aids? Is there any way you could appeal to the kinesthetic views. To have a mock trial seems fun and interesting, but how will you dissect the information and break it down in a way for the students to understand it enough to make and state their cases? This is a prep school, so I'm guessing there may be higher standards for these students. They must have a higher reading comprehension than that of most students in public high schools today.

Hello Sophia. Actually, I think my students are typical of most LAUSD students. I certainly wouldn't say that they have higher reading comprehension skills than most students. However, much of the mock trial revolves around role-play and acting. Many of my students do gravitate to this aspect of mock trials. Many students want to command attention when they present their cases, so they really do read the material and prepare their arguments. For students who have lower reading levels, I think they glean a lot of information from the discussions that ensue while students are actively engaged in preparing for the case. Some students may not be able to digest the entire case, but they can focus on a particular aspect, such as direct examination and/or cross-examination of a particular witness, or they might do the opening argument. They might even be a witness or a juror.