On Monday, The girls and their father went to the Georgia Bar for a school field trip. They got there a bit early (an hour early), but they went inside anyway. The teacher gave them and another family a tour of the things that they wouldn't see during the class.
After everyone arrived, the teacher told about the life of President Woodrow Wilson, pretending to be his wife. Then she gave them a tour of the Georgia Bar. They saw some courtrooms and the President of the Georgia Bar's room, which had a really expensive table costing $80,000! (Also a $600 trashcan)! They walked back to the first room and learned about homicide. Then they were given a test about homicide.
The teacher was planning on having a pretend trial, so they passed out some scripts to different people. Leah, Abby, and Maggie were part of the jury so they didn't have scripts. They ate lunch and went to one of the courtrooms for the trial. It was a play that the teacher had written herself. It was supposed to be about the Big Bad Wolf suing Curly Pig (one of the three little pigs) for the injuries he had gotten from falling down the chimney. The witnesses were: Sylvester Cat, one of the three blind mice, the old woman who lived in a shoe, Georgie Porgie, Bob the Builder, Pinocchio, Goldie Locks, and Miss Piggy. It was pretty funny!
When the trial was over, we watched some clips from some classic movies that had law in them. Then the teacher told the story of the Lindbergh kidnapping and another story.They also looked at the Lady Justice statue.They did a little more touring and it was over. They were pretty tired after all that, but they had fun and learned a lot.
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