Thought this was cute from Jacksonville FL-
St. Mark's Episcopal Day School students in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades recently learned about the judicial system and court procedures by holding mock trials for the fictional character Peter Rabbit, who was accused of stealing vegetables from Mr. McGregor's garden.
Students read "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter together in class and then were assigned parts as the defendant, jurors, witnesses, the prosecution or defense teams, court reporters and bailiffs. The trials were led by the school's Academic Support Center teachers, whose goal was to enrich the students' understanding of the story as well as to teach a civics lesson in an interactive way.
The verdicts? The fourth-grade jury was hung; the fifth-grade jury acquitted Peter; the sixth-grade jury found him not guilty of theft, but guilty of criminal trespassing and sentenced him to 60 days of planting crops for underprivileged families.
http://jacksonville.com/community/riverside/2010-04-15/story/mixed-verdicts-peter-rabbit-st-marks-episcopal-day-school-0
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