Prologue
Amos 5:24
Creating Context
The Question of Fairness • Justice Through the Ages • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: What's Fair—What's Not?
Thinking Skill: Evaluating
- Someone Who Saw (short story)
- David Gifaldi
- Crossing the Line (article)
- Nell Bernstein
- Innocent Have I Been Tortured, Innocent Must I Die (letter)
- Johannes Junius, with Milton Meltzer
- The Law vs. Justice (satire)
- Dave Barry
- Could a Woman Do That? (essay)
- Anita Gustafson
Cluster Two: Who Judges?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- And Justice for All (article)
- Johnny D. Boggs
- Shrewd Todie and Lyzer the Miser (Ukrainian folktale)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- justice (poem)
- w. r. rodriguez
- Words (short story)
- Dian Curtis Regan
Cluster Three: Punishment or Mercy?
Thinking Skill: Comparing and Contrasting
- The Quality of Mercy (Moroccan folktale)
- Sharon Creeden
- Portia's Speech (monologue)
- William Shakespeare
- The Bishop's Candlesticks (drama)
- Lewy Olfson, based on Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- This Isn't Kiddy Court (commentary)
- Judge Judy Sheindlin
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- The United States v. Susan B. Anthony (biography)
- Margaret Truman
- Dumb Criminal Tales (anecdotes)
- Daniel R. Butler et al.
- The Truth About Sharks (short story)
- Joan Bauer
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (poem)
- Gwendolyn Brooks
