The Humpty Dumpty Story used in this lesson was written by Christy Bluhm, a fifth grader of mine in 1988. Kids can write their own stories that can be used in mock trials or judiciary studies. The following outlines the procedures that I used. A. Review the simple assault law or any law you wish to learn using a resource person. B. Give a couple of ground rules before the students create their own stories.
Ground rules give the student a common point to work from.
For example, in my instructions, I state that Humpty Dumpty was to be the victim of a simple assault and that there had to be an eye witness. I also said that they were free to use any other characters they wanted and as many as they needed to tell the story. Nearby, little Bo Peep was sitting in a field, crying because she had lost her sheep. And above, a cow was trying to jump over the moon twenty times. Just as Humpty Dumpty dozed off, a spider came over to Miss Tuffet and scared her so much, she ran wildly into the crooked wall, knocking it down, with Humpty on the bottom.