Unit Overview How does our society create and maintain order while ensuring due process of law for its citizens? The thirty words in this unit will help students broaden their knowledge of concepts related to law enforcement, litigation, and criminal justice. Through Unlocking, Processing, and Applying activities, students will experience C deep processing of meaning. C multiple word interactions. C word meanings through context.


LAW AND ORDER 1


Context Clues


TAKING INVENTORY: PRETEST Assess students’ prior knowledge of Part 1 vocabulary words by using the Part 1 Pretest on page T255. Answers: 1. perpetrate 2. surveil- lance 3. forensic 4. injurious 5. cir- cumstantial 6. acquit 7. compliance 8. prosecution 9. culprit 10. alibi.


OBJECTIVES Students will C read and discuss an essay related to this unit’s theme—Law and Order.


C activate knowledge about the theme to learn the meanings of ten words.


GUIDE STUDENTS Activating Prior Knowledge Discuss the following questions before students read “The Importance of Evidence: From Crime Scene to Court.” C Why are detectives called to the scene of a crime?


UNIT 9


C What happens when a case reaches a court?


Have students share any prior knowledge that they have about the essay’s ten boldfaced words. Have them take turns reading the essay aloud or assign it as silent reading.


T182 Unit 9 Law and Order Part 1


Law and Order Unit Planner Sections to Use


Week 1 Part 1


Week 2 Part 2


Week 3 Part 3


Week 4 Part 4


Pretest


“The Importance of Evidence: From Crime Scene to Court”


Posttest Pretest


“Sheriffs and Constables: Officers of the Law”


Home Connection Posttest Pretest


“Small Claims Court: Seeking Justice”


Posttest Review


Test-Taking Strategy Build New Words


Unit Posttest Strategy/Skills WORD LIST


Read words in context.


Context Clue: Look for How Something Is Done.


Read words in context.


Latin roots sta, stit, ple, pli, plic, jud, jur, and jus.


Prefix com-.


Read words in context.


Reference Skill: Word Origins. Review the unit.


Add suffixes -ous, -ory, -al.


Assess students’ knowledge.


compliance forensic culprit


circumstantial surveillance perpetrate prosecution alibi


injurious acquit


constable jurisdiction statute perjury supplicant


Word List


communicate, recognize, express, attention, admit, silence, dedication, announcement, speech- less, vocabulary


announcer, announce, vocal, pronounce, pronunciation, dictation, diction, vowel, vocalist, predict


restitution constituent duplicity accomplice complicity impartial liable


discuss, debate, state, reply, complain, demand, urge, narrate, report, request


Review unit vocabulary words


extenuating infraction ultimatum exonerate lenient retaliate mediate reconcile


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