Become a Trial Expert. Research the following cases: Brown versus Board of Education, Plessy versus Ferguson, and the trial from the text.  Also research the Jim Crow Laws. Provide a one page summary of each case, double-spaced, 12-point font.  On a separate page, provide a paragraph for Brown vs. BOE and Plessy v. Ferguson relating them to the trial from the text.  You should also discuss how the Jim Crow laws relate to the trial in the text.

 Defending Tom Robinson. Atticus says, “We were licked a hundred years before we started”

Imagine that you are a young lawyer helping Atticus prepare his case. Make notes (a series of bullet points) of things that will help you defend Tom, and of things that the prosecution will use to try and convict him.