Students write up summaries in their note books. Sites with Literary Audio - literary sites for oral recordings. Audio Specials - readings by well known authors. This tape discusses the sentence given to a young Canadian man who drove while drunk and killed his two friends. Students are involved in listening to selections from the tape, recording what they hear, and giving their own opinions on the issues raised.
Students prepare and present a roleplay interview on the issue.
This is videoed and played back to the class for self evaluation. Resource sheets for these activities. Selected interviews can be located and viewed at the Holmes Web site . The whole interview is shown. Each short section of the tape relevant to the questions is shown twice with time allowed for writing answers between showings.