Saturday, April 18, 2009

English Trial Paper

So we had this "trial" thing in English class where someone acting like Mark Twain was on trial...three people were chosen as judges, one was chosen as a bailiff, 5 were chosen as lawyers, the lawyers picked there witnesses and if you wernt picked as anything you bacame a jury member.... later everyone had to write a full page of what they did during the trial. this is my paper:

For the Mark Twain trial in english class I am a nobody. If you are a nobody you automatically get put into the jury unless you were picked by a lawyer to be a witness. So, all the nobodies, or jury members, just sit and listen during the trial. We need to take notes every once in a while so Miss Cary knows we are paying attention. Normally during a real trial, the jury members help decide wether or not the accused person is guilty or not. In this case, since the jury was just assigned to give all the nobodies a name to help them feel like they were a part of the trial and to give them something to do, we just sit and listen. Now, the bailiff gets to stand up every once and a while to announce cool things that don't apply to the jury cause we just sit there and try not to day dream. During the trial the jury has to remain totally quiet, they don't have to right to talk about how they feel about the subject, even the judge has the right to have his own opinion. The only time the jury can talk is when there's a recess, and only the judge can call a recess...figures...So yeah, thats basically all the jury does, the good side of it is...ummm....hold on....ok, i cant think of anything. Is this a page yet? Yeah, close enough...

1 comment:

Ruthie :) said...

OK. I have to admit that this actually made me laugh a ton. It's good...for you. Hah, well it if helps any, I totally imagined you writing this in class...even though I know you didn't. :)