Just Mercy Bell Ringers, Conversation Starters, Chapter Questions, & Quick Write

What others say

"These helped to wrap up our chapter studies nicely and gave students a great opportunity to discuss their reading. The questions, for the most part, were thought provoking."

Traci M.

Description

✏️ For use with the YA version or the adult version of Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy

These slides include over 30 questions/prompts to get students thinking about issues presented in the text. There is at least one question/prompt for each of the 16 chapters, as well as the epilogue, and several for before students even begin reading the text.

These can be used as a warm-up, or to break up the readings. They can also be printed for independent work as students read the text. Many can also be used for quick writes or quizzes. Each question posed is open-ended and designed to encourage students to think critically about the issues in the text.

I've personally used these during Socratic Seminars with great success!

✏️ ✏️ Like this resource? Check out my TPT store for many more Just Mercy resources, including the resource that was awarded the TeachersPayTeachers Teach for Justice grant!

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Just Mercy Bell Ringers, Conversation Starters, Chapter Questions, & Quick Write

Name: Just Mercy Bell Ringers, Conversation Starters, Chapter Questions, & Quick Write
Brand: Schooled Ya
SKU: 6357406
Price: 10.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.7 (10 reviews)

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Highlights

Digital downloads

Google Apps

Grades

8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education

Subjects

Close Reading, Criminal Justice - Law, English Language Arts

Standards

CCSSCCRA.R.1

CCSSCCRA.R.2

CCSSCCRA.R.3

What others say

"These helped to wrap up our chapter studies nicely and gave students a great opportunity to discuss their reading. The questions, for the most part, were thought provoking."

Traci M.

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Full Unit: Bryan Stevenson's, Just Mercy

Included in this bundle is the FULL UNIT for teaching Bryan Stevenson's, Just Mercy (the YA or adult version), including the resource that was awarded the TeachersPayTeachers Teach for Justice grant!. These resources work best for high school level but can be used at the middle school level as well.

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Description

✏️ For use with the YA version or the adult version of Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy

I've personally used these during Socratic Seminars with great success!

✏️ ✏️ Like this resource? Check out my TPT store for many more Just Mercy resources, including the resource that was awarded the TeachersPayTeachers Teach for Justice grant!

Report this resource to TPT

Reported resources will be reviewed by our team. Report this resource to let us know if this resource violates TPT's content guidelines.

4.7

Rated 4.7 out of 5, based on 10 reviews

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Mostly used with 9th grade

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Rated 5 out of 5

April 1, 2025

These helped to wrap up our chapter studies nicely and gave students a great opportunity to discuss their reading. The questions, for the most part, were thought provoking.

Traci M.

84 reviews

Grades taught: 9th

Rated 5 out of 5

June 25, 2024

Great resource! Had everything I was looking for - lots of activities to improve students' comprehension. Thank you!

Michelle K.

721 reviews

Grades taught: 10th

Rated 5 out of 5

March 22, 2023

This was a great resource to add to my Just Mercy unit. Lots of great entry tasks to add discussion and debate to my contemporary world problems course.

Kristin Nilsen

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373 reviews

Grades taught: 12th

Rated 4 out of 5

September 15, 2022

I use these writing prompts for a written conversation dialogue between students. They work great.

Jennifer K.

188 reviews

Grades taught: 9th

Rated 5 out of 5

September 5, 2022

I used this as the class was reading Just Mercy. The students were able to get ready for the lesson as we went through this activity.

Melissa C.

168 reviews

Grades taught: 9th

Student populations: Learning difficulties

Rated 5 out of 5

February 21, 2022

I love using this resource. I'm teaching Just Mercy for the first time this year, and I always like to have my students complete a bell ringer for us to discuss before we get into the rest of the class period. These bell ringers have been super helpful in getting my students' brains "going" before we begin!

Rylan L.

31 reviews

Grades taught: 9th

Rated 5 out of 5

January 30, 2022

Really love the bell ringers. A really good resource for the book

Donna P.

201 reviews

Grades taught: 12th

Student populations: Mild to severe disabilities

Rated 5 out of 5

September 10, 2021

Just Mercy is emotionally exhausting. It is a vital read, particularly for my students, who are likely to be racially profiled. Reading the book was enough to leave me so broken that I couldn't focus. But this resource saved me. Activities, Do Nows, Discussion starters...all were ready to go. Thank you so much! It is important to share this story with students as just one example of injustice!

Vivian Johnson

(TPT Seller)

85 reviews

Grades taught: 11th

Student populations: Autism, Emerging bilinguals, Learning difficulties, Mild to severe disabilities

Questions & Answers

Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).

CCSSCCRA.R.1

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

CCSSCCRA.R.2

Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

CCSSCCRA.R.3

Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.