1.     Two students will play the roles of police officers while the other two will play the defendants/arrestees.

2.     Explain to the actors that their job is to explicitly convey each action or additional fact one at a time. The goal is to act things out enough that the teacher does not have to add additional narration.

 
Tell them that this wasn’t on the cups before Stella Liebeck had her way. Who is Stella Liebeck? 
Introduce Stella Liebeck

“I’m Stella Liebeck. I was in the car with my grandson one day, and he drove up to a McDonalds drive-thru. He asked me if I wanted anything. Of course I did! It’s McDonalds! So, I got a cup of coffee. Hey, I was 79. I needed a little caffeine.  They handed him his order (Big Mac, supersized, and my coffee). He pulled over to the side of the line so I could add some milk and sugar. I had the cup balanced on my knees and took the lid off, and hot coffee spilled all over me! I spent 8 days in the hospital having skin cut off my body and grafted onto my knees to replace the burned skin! It was awful! My cotton sweatpants absorbed the coffee, scalding my thighs, buttocks, and groin. I suffered third-degree burns on six percent of my skin and lesser burns over sixteen percent ...

Structure of Activity

-       Split the room into teams of no more than four people 

-       Complete a series of trivia questions on the legal system

-       Keep score of which teams get the correct answers.

-       If a team yells out an answer or gives an answer to another team they lose a point