You will defend Clarence Darrow's position?

Your character name in the play is Henry Drummond.

You work for the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union.

You claim to be an agnostic.

You will call experts to defend Darwin's views of evolution.

Explore the Web Sites below under the resources for your historical person and do each numbered task so that you are ready for the trial.

1. You are Clarence Darrow. Read the biographical information on Clarence Darrow and create a ten slide Power Point presentation describing your accomplishments in life.

2. You belong to the ACLU. In a six slide Power Point presentation, describe three other important trials the ACLU has been involved in that were important. One slide introduces the trial you are talking about and the second slide describes the outcome.

3. Look up the word "agnostic" in the on-line source below in the Clarence Darrow Resources and write the definition down. Find a quote from Clarence Darrow that describes why he feels he is an agnostic. Compare the two bits of information and tell a classmate what you discovered.

4. Create an eight slide Power Point presentation that explains what you learned about Darwin's Theory of the Origin of the Species.

Click on the Clarence Darrow Resources and do numbers 1 to 4.

Clarence Darrow Resources
William Jennings Bryan Resources
John T. Scopes Resources
Town's People and City Officials Resources
Newspaper Reporters Resources

Clarence Darrow

Henry Drummond

William Jennings Bryan

Matthew Harrison Brady

John T. Scopes

Bertram Cates

Town's People

City Officials

Newspaper Reporters

E.K. Hornbeck,

H.L. Mencken and others.

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