Socratic Seminar: The Case of the Shipwrecked Sailors (High School)

This high-school-level resource provides educators with instructions and student materials for facilitating a Socratic Seminar on the 1884 case of The Queen (Regina) v. Dudley and Stephens (aka the Case of the Shipwrecked Sailors). This Socratic Seminar Resource Set includes the following:

• Teacher facilitation guide
• Hook resource: Is Necessity a Defense for a Crime?
• Text resource: Excerpts from the Case of the Shipwrecked Sailors
• Preparation resources:
  • Case of the Shipwrecked Sailors Vocabulary
  • Introduction: The Case of the Shipwrecked Sailors
• Seminar Questions resource: The Case of the Shipwrecked Sailors
• Extension resource: Modern-Day Necessity Defense for DWI