This artifact is part of an assignment I had to create and present in my government and law class. For this assignment I had to research an ongoing court case that is all the way up in the supreme court. My court case was the Department of Justice vs. the House Committee of Judiciary. In order to complete this assignment I had to spend about a week researching everything about this case and who was all on it. I took the side of the Department of Justice, so I had to find the facts and points on their side of the case.
I feel like the most successful part of this assignment was how I researched my side. I thought it was going to be really hard to find the case points in this trial, but it was actually easier than I thought. I think I found my data really well and when writing my case paper on it, it went better than I thought it would. Presenting also went very well when I was reading off which case points because I successfully completed my research before hand. I used my strongest points in the case when presenting to help sway people to my side of the trial.
The most difficult part of this project was presenting to the class. I am not a very good presenter so I was really nervous to present my side of the case properly. Having all of the facts and points down before presenting really helped me because then I was fully prepared to present. I thought that I presented better than I thought I would, but I still think it was the hardest thing about this project for me. It was also a little different presenting because I was online presenting and my partner was in person, so it was hard to cover questions when the class asked.
This definitely connects with the critical thinking category because you have to research your topics. When I was researching I had to use multiple sites because even just 4 sites didn’t have all of the information for this case. Critical thinking is key for this project because you have to think of different ways that you are going to present your case to the class. You need to find a way to persuade your audience into picking your side of the trial. I also had to use communication as a 6 c’s because in order to complete this assignment I had to present it in front of my class.
This assignment connects with the outside world because it is a real life case that is happening right now. It is still in session and the supreme court is currently working on it so I will get to see the real outcome after. I can also connect with the outside world because if I ever go watch a court case I can see all of this play out in real life. I want to go to trials and see how they do them in real life because I think it would be fun to see what they do and compare it to what I have learned in this class.