Well today we started a new topic which is about a court case in the 1950's. This is based on a true story and it involves two boys, one of which was named Derek Bentley who was 19 years old and another boy called Chris Craig, who was 16.
In the beginning of the lesson, we were given 5 different pieces of information relevant to the court case and after each piece of information we had to write how long they should be charged for in jail.
After this, we found out what really happened to them and what happened was that Bentley was hung and Craig was sent to a life-long time in prison. We also found out that unfortunately, even though Bentley was the oldest, he had the mental age of a 10 year old child, was alliterate and had epilepsy. Chris had no disabilities and had no problems. We had a class discussion about is and we all agreed that Chris had probably taken advantage of Derek by persuading him to do harmful and illegal things such as smoking and stealing.
We were given a small, scripted scene where Derek and Chris get caught in the warehouse after trying to steal some of the things. We were each assigned a part (one being the director) and we had to set up different objects that we could use on stage. We went though the lines to make sure that we had learnt them and after they were solid, we started acting it out with actions and movements. This was the first time ever that we started disagreeing on what we should do and it was the first time we got into an argument!! So because of this, it did take quite a long time to get this piece up to standard. At the end if the lesson, it was still not perfect but at least we had tomorrow to practice more and get it sorted.
Overall, this was a great lesson (as always) but it did have a few bumps along the way with the bickering and disagreeing! Oh well!!!! :O hope we will work better tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!
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