Objective: Students will be able to compare/contrast real-life women who have killed their husbands to Mary Maloney in “Lamb to the Slaughter.”
Do-Now: Grammar Exercise : Daily Edit:
In 1875, a croud of 10000 gathered to watch the first horse races at Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky. They saw a 3-year-old colt named aristides win the race. That race became part of what are now an annual tradition for horse lover's -- the Kentucky Derby. Held on the first Saturday in may, the Derby is known as the first jewel in horse racings Triple Crown the other two races in that "crown" are the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes.
Agenda: Researching Women Who Have Killed Their Husbands
Read each of the articles on the murderers and answer the following questions:
1) What was the woman's name/age?
2) How/when did she kill her husband?
3) What was the woman's motive for killing her husband?
4) Do you feel justice was served in her court case?
5) How does this murder compare/contrast to the murder in "Lamb to the Slaughter?"
Larissa Schuster
Pamela Smart
Betty Broderick
Homework: Letter of Confession: Choose one of the women from today’s research and write a letter from her perspective in which she confesses her crime and explains what motivated her to kill her husband.
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