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 Catalogue of

Trial Subjects

I believe that the best mock trials are based on books (or plays or movies) that are already being studied as part of the existing classroom curriculum.  Below is a list of books and other literature which I’ve used as the basis for mock trials over a dozen years.  And I’m always excited about trying new ones!

 

-- Steve Brown

  

BOOKS

 A Civil Action

Animal Farm

April Morning

Arthur Burns

The Best School Year Ever

The Bomb

The Cat in the Hat

The Cay

Circle of Gold

The Ear, the Eye and the Arm

Farewell to Manzanar

The Fighting Ground

Flowers for Algernon

Frankenstein

Ghost Canoe

The Giver

Goodnight, Mr. Tom

Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Hatchet

Holes

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

James and the Giant Peach

Journey to Jo’burg

Kidnapped

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Lobo the Wolf

A Long Way From Chicago

Lyddie

Maniac Magee

My Brother Sam is Dead

My Name is Not Angelica

My Side of the Mountain

Nothing but the Truth

Nothing to Fear

Oliver Twist

Out of the Dust

The Outsiders

The Phantom Tollbooth

Phoenix Rising

The Pinballs

Princess Furball

Red Cap

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Shiloh Season

The Sign of the Beaver

The Slave Dancer

Soldier Boys

So Far From the Bamboo Grove

The Street Lawyer

To Kill a Mockingbird

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Tuck Everlasting

Under the Blood Red Sun

Waiting for the Rain

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

The Whipping Boy

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

The Witches

A Year Down Yonder

 

 SHORT STORIES

 Dragon, Dragon

The Midnight Visitor

Song of the Trees

 

 PLAYS

 Julius Caesar

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Piano Lesson

Romeo and Juliet

The Shape of a Girl

Twelfth Night

  

MOVIES

 A Bug’s Life

Catch Me if You Can  

The Chronicles of Narnia

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

The Lion King

Men in Black

The Mummy

Newsies

Ocean’s Eleven

Pirates of the Caribbean

Star Wars

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

  

HISTORICAL TRIALS

 Joan of Arc (heresy)

Richard III (murder)

 

 ORIGINAL CREATIONS

 Doo Mountain v. Marvelous Middle School  (advertising)

Kim Colorful v. Marvelous Middle School  (school uniforms)

Olive Oyl v. Marvelous Middle School  (school lunches)

State v. Mahn Itor (theft)

Jose Havana v. Fidel Castro (Alien Tort Claims Act)