Twelve Angry Men: Syllabus For High School Students

This story was taken place in New York. This story is about twelve jurors that have a very thought through and heated discussion about a young man that had supposedly killed his father with a switchblade knife. There are two witnesses in the story, one is an old man that lived in the same tenement as the boy did, and the other was a lady that lived in a building across the railroad tracks from the boys home. In the including of the “Twelve Angry Men” the literature syllabus for high school students has many advantages and disadvantages.

Some advantages for reading this play in a school is, the students can act out the play in class as they are reading it. Some examples of this would be, when the book would say to get up and walk around, they would get up and walk around. Another advantage would be that, it can teach them to discuss more. Some examples from the play would be the students have to read a lot about the jurors discussing their feeling about the situation. Another advantage would be that, it could teach them about criminal justice. Some students in the school might be thinking about going into the law and this book could

Some examples from the play would be, what the whole play is about, a boy who is accused for stabbing his father with a switchblade knife. Another disadvantage would be that it has some racism in the book and the students might not like the thought about reading about someone being racists. Some example from the book would be, one of the jurors was talking bad about the slums and the blacks. Another problem would be that all the jurors in the play, were white. So some of the student might take it hard that the discussion was made with all white men and none of the race of the suspect. Another disadvantage would be that this story was put together in the 1950’s, so some students might not find it very catchy to read