LAW AND ORDER 2 Latin
LAW AND ORDER Roots
TAKING INVENTORY: PRETEST Assess students’ prior knowledge of Part 2 vocabulary words by using the Part 2 Pretest on page T256. Answers: 1.C 2.F 3.A 4.J 5.D 6.H 7.I 8.G 9.E 10.B.
OBJECTIVES Students will C read and discuss an essay related to this unit’s theme—Law and Order.
C activate prior knowledge about the theme to help them learn the meanings of ten words.
GUIDE STUDENTS Activating Prior Knowledge Discuss the following questions before students read “Sheriffs and Constables: Officers of the Law.” C Does our community have a sheriff or a constable? What do you think this person does (or these people do)?
C What other kinds of law officers can you name?
Have students share any prior knowl- edge they have about the essay’s ten boldfaced words. Ask them to take turns reading the essay aloud or assign it as silent reading, depending on the needs and abilities of your students. Compare and contrast their prior knowledge and their new understanding of these ten words.
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Are the top law officers in your community elected or hired? Are they paid or unpaid? What powers and responsibilities do they have? To whom do they answer?
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aw enforcement has a clear, logical structure in some communities. It’s a complex bureaucracy in others. For example, do you know the difference between a sheriff and a constable? A sheriff is elected as the main law enforce- ment officer. A sheriff’s jurisdiction is the county that elected him or her. A sheriff carries out laws and statutes, serves warrants issued by judges, and generally preserves the peace. The war- rants may involve petty theft, truancy, assault, perjury, or other offenses. He or she makes sure that supplicants appear in court. Sometimes a sheriff will deter- mine the extent of damages someone has caused. Then that person can be required by law to make restitution by paying the owner of the property for the damage. The sheriff is often in charge of the county jail and its prisoners.
A constable, on the other hand, often has the same duties as a sheriff but less authority. Not all states have constables, but states that do usually elect them. Many constables are trained law enforcement officers, but others are untrained. The position of constable was adopted from England, where the constables were equal to sheriffs in every way except
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Officers of the Law Sheriffs and Constables:
training. In the United States, the respon- sibilities of constables vary greatly, from handling paperwork for judges to per- forming traffic and patrol duties. Some constables are not directly responsible to any governing body. Even though most constables are elected, it can be difficult to identify their constituents. Some constables are more like business people than law officers. They collect money for the courts and are paid directly from these funds. Records are sometimes sketchy, nevertheless. A lack of records can provide opportunities for duplicity by allowing someone to steal the money. Good constables resist this temptation to steal. Some constables deputize people, give them badges, and send them out to collect money. In many places, a deputy needs to be twenty-one years of age and a resident of the state.
Constables are sometimes given the responsibility of arresting criminals and their accomplices, or helpers. If a person is suspected of complicity in a crime, he or she is likely to be arrested along with the criminal.
Constables help small or overworked police departments. They serve warrants and collect thousands of dollars in fines that would otherwise go unpaid. In this way, they help support the entire com- munity. Constables in some areas handle tasks ranging from organizing neighbor- hood watch programs to directing traffic at accidents.
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Part 2 Daily Planner Pretest, p. T256
Day 1
Unlock Through Context Reading Selection, p. 188
Practice the Context Clues Strategy, p. 189
Day 2
Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Home Connection, p. T214 Unlock the Meanings, p. 190
Unlock the Meanings, p. 191 Process the Meanings, p. 192
Apply What You’ve Learned, p. 193
Speak It!, p. 193 Posttest, p. T256
T188 Unit 9 Law and Order Part 2
Page(s) to Use
Strategy/Skills Assess prior knowledge.
Read words in context. Practice the strategy.
Learn the Latin roots sta, stit, ple, pli, plic, jud, jur, jus.
Use the roots and the prefix com-.
Find the synonyms. Complete the sentences.
Answer the questions.
Apply skills to speaking. Assess students’ knowledge.
WORD LIST constable jurisdiction statute perjury supplicant restitution constituent duplicity accomplice complicity
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