Hey there! My name is Paris, and I'm a member of a BITS program group that will be showcasing a mock trial exhibition. We haven't gotten to look at the "big" case we'll be working with, but our mentors (Liz, Jay and Brenton) tell us that it's geared towards the idea of Environmental Justice. They literally say these words at least 10 times a day! In an explosion of group creativity, we've decided to call ourselves New Kids On The Mock.
Today, we've all gotten together to log into and fill out our blog a little. This is our place to explain what we're doing with our mentors and note everything that we learn and experience, so I welcome you to our blog.
To date, we've done so much it's hard to try to remember it all! The first thing that comes to mind is all the icebreakers our mentors have done with us. Working with such large group can have it's ups and downs, so we really had to get to know each other some before we could do anything! Once we got the hang of the group effort idea we delved right into the concept of mock trial, which is basically a court case with everyone in the group given a job, from prosecutors to witnesses.
We've done more icebreakers. We've done mini mock trials to get an idea of the process. We've read into actual environmental cases (Like the Wade fire of 1978) and watched the movie Erin Brockovich to help us understand the responsibility we have to the environment. We've done even more still icebreakers.
I can't even begin to cover all of the things we've done, so I'll just leave you with the point our mentors have been drilling into us:
It's easy to say someone needs to do something about protecting our environment, but it's a whole different ball game to say I need to do something about protecting our environment. Get familiar with the difference with us.
Y'all come back now, ya hear?
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