Month

Content/Topic

Skills

Assessment

Standards

January

• Unit 1:  The Basics of Law and Ethics

• Definitions
• Concepts

• Daily Assignments

• Quiz/Test

February

• Unit 2:  The Court System

• Unit 3:  Criminal Law

• Dual Courts
• State vs. Federal Courts
• Civil vs. Criminal Courts

• Types of crimes—misdemeanors, felonies
• Defenses to crimes

• Daily Assignments

• Quiz/Test

• Famous Criminal Research Paper

March

• Unit 4:  Tort Law

• Unit 5:  Contract Law

• Tort law vs. criminal law
• Types of torts—intentional, unintentional
• Defenses to torts

• contract elements
• types of contracts
• agreements
• illegal contracts
• breech of contract
• contractual capacity
• consideration
• public policy
• contract form
• ending a contract
• transferring contracts
• remedies for breech

• Daily Assignments

• Quiz/Test

• Study Guides

• Contract Writing Project

April

• Mock Trial
• Field Trip (court/jail)

• Unit 6:  Consumer Law

• Unit 7:  Using an Agent and Holding a Job (Rights)

• Students conduct a trial playing various roles—prosecutor, defense, defendant, plaintiff, witnesses, judge, bailiff, court reporter, jury

• sale of goods contracts
• warranties
• consumer protection/product liability
• vehicle/insurance
• personal property
• bailments

• agency
• types of agents
• relationships
• termination
• employment law
• protection
• discrimination & equal opportunity

• Mock Trial

• Mock Trial Reflection Paper

• Daily Assignments

• Quiz/Test

• Study Guides

• Field Trip

May

• Unit 8:  Credit

• Unit 9:  Starting a Business

• Unit 10:  Future Plans

• borrowing money
• types of credit
• credit laws
• negotiable instruments
• checks

• proprietorship
• partnership vs. corporation
• business regulations

• marriage
• divorce
• laws
• renting laws
• buying a home/regulations
• insurance protection
• retirement
• wills/estates

• Daily Assignments

• Quiz/Test

• Study Guides