• Begin with a video clip from a television series that depicts the police reciting the Miranda warnings. Discuss these warnings with students, soliciting their ideas about what rights the accused are entitled to based on what they have seen on television.
  
  
• Read the "Background" as a class. Have students identify the arguments for each side and predict the outcome.
  
  
• For homework, have students read the Key Excerpts from the Majority Opinion and answer the accompanying questions. .

• Complete all activities for the first day.
  
  
• On the second day, complete the activity titled "Miranda Warnings and the Bill of Rights" to help refresh students' memories of how the Bill of Rights relates to the Miranda warnings.
  
  
• Complete the activity titled "Controversy over the Court's Decision" to help students understand why the Miranda decision is still controversial.
  
  
• For homework, have students analyze the political cartoon using what they learned from the "Controversy over the Court's Decision."
  

• Complete all activities suggested for the first and second days.
  
  
• On the third day, discuss the political cartoon.
  
  
• Alternatively, on the third day, complete the jigsaw activity titled "Should Miranda Warnings Be Required Police Procedure?"
  
  
• Assess students' understanding of the principles of Miranda by completing the activity "Beyond Miranda.".
  
  
• For homework, have students read the excerpt from David Simon's book Homicide provided in the activity titled "A Real World Case Study: Homicide by David Simon" and answer the questions or write the short essay described in the assignment.

• Complete all the activities for the first, second, and third days.
  
  
• On the fourth day, have students complete Miranda Rights for Juveniles: Yarborough v. Alvarado.
  
  
• Alternatively, on the third and fourth day, conduct a mini-moot court in triads according to the instructions in the activity "Should Miranda Be Overturned in Dickerson v. the United States? Additionally, refer to Miranda v. Arizona: A Primer to crystallize the key concepts of the doctrine.
  

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Activities
    The Case

•	Miranda v. Arizona: A Primer
•	Miranda Warnings and the Bill of Rights
•	Miranda and the Exclusionary Rule
•	Controversy Over the Court's Decision
•	Should the Miranda Warnings Be Required Police Procedure?

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    After the Case

•	Beyond Miranda
•	A Real World Case Study: Homicide by David Simon
•	You Be the Judge (and the Lawyers): Should Miranda Be Overturned in Dickerson v. the United States?
•	Miranda Rights for Juveniles: Yarborough v. Alvarado

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